Ford Interior Design
Posted by admin in Ford, Interior Design on June 17, 2011
Technology has made almost everything easier, unless you are an interior car designer. Cramming every piece of technology into a stylish, accessible, easy to understand interior is no easy feat. Think about everything that drivers want and need at their fingertips. Aside from the standard gauges and radio dials, cars today are equipped with Bluetooth, satellite radio, navigation, multidisc CD changers, auxiliary input jacks, flash drive and SD card inserts, rearview cameras, and dozens more.
Ford has been hard at work perfecting the SYNC system. SYNC was launched in the fall of 2007 and has been a user favorite ever since. The whole idea behind SYNC is less is more. The system integrates everything drivers want from their cars and on top of making it look nice, Ford made it one of the most user-friendly, voice activated systems in the industry.
Already installed in over three million Ford vehicles and 12 of the current Ford models, SYNC continues to add new features to every upgrade, from 911 Assist to Vehicle Health Report to AppLink. The SYNC system also gives users access to turn-by-turn directions, hand-free calling, real-time traffic alerts, personalized daily information, and audible text messages. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Design a Car – Quick Tips to Design Cars
Posted by admin in Car Design, Design Tips on June 17, 2011
If you want to learn how to design a car, you need to be able to have a clear picture in your head of what your car will look like and know how to put that idea to paper. I’m going to give you a few quick tips on how to do this and design cars that look awesome!
Build The Body: Obviously your going to have to start with the body of your car. A cool trick that I use is to find pictures of cars that have the parts that I want in my design, then I trace over them onto a piece of paper. Now this can be the whole body and you can modify it by rubbing out, resizing and adding new parts from other pictures until you get something that looks good.
It might be a bit rough at the start, but this is a great way to get a good picture down on paper if your not so great at drawing.
Deck Out The Interior: When designing the interior of the car you want to try and create as much space as possible. It can be easy to shove in all sorts of mods to your car, but this can turn out terribly if you have any intentions of actually creating your car.
Adding Colors: If you have any photo editing software like Photoshop you can scan your drawing and edit it on the computer much easier. The professionals actually do the whole process on the computer using drawing tablets and rendering their cars in 3D. But we’re not that advanced! Read the rest of this entry »