Tag: Auto Design

The “Black Panther”-Inspired Lexus RX 500h “Vibe-Branium,” Designed by adidas SEED Students

An all-woman team unites the Marvel Cinematic Universe with automotive and footwear design

Posted by
Posted on
Read — Design

To celebrate the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Lexus partnered with adidas, Calty Design Research and 3D-printing company Carbon on the Lexus RX 500h “Vibe-Branium,” a custom RX F Sport designed by women students from adidas’ School of Experiential Education in Design (SEED). Over the course of four to five weeks, the students—who have never designed a vehicle before—collaboratively created a bold and nuanced Black …

Test Drive: McLaren Artura

Behind the wheel of the carmaker's first series-production hybrid

Posted by
Posted on
Read — Design

Like many automakers, McLaren‘s challenge is to create something new—not a facelift, but a market-defining, tech-forward, future-facing vehicle to include in the race to shed combustion engines, generating a storm of curiosity. Although first introduced in mid-2021, Artura—McLaren’s first series-production hybrid—officially made its world debut at this year’s Monaco Grand Prix, when HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco drove it around the track on a …

Miami Art Week 2022: Rhuigi Villaseñor + Lamborghini

The luxury automaker's first-ever all-terrain super sports car

Posted by
Posted on
Read — Design

Describing Rhuigi Villaseñor as a designer only encompasses a small portion of what he does, and addresses little about who he is. Whether he’s designing for Rhude (which he founded in 2015) or Bally (where he is creative director) or collaborating with other labels, Villaseñor is always creating, contributing and dreaming. Recently he debuted a critically heralded new collection at Bally, injecting his signature style …