cowards of the counties?
Yeah, okay, fine, our Spanish is about as reliable as our uterus. Maybe a little better. Curse these barely-vestigal ovaries! Regardless, and more to the point, some people like yellow cars. Our pal
Zerin is one, having just shelled out for a bright screaming new TT S-Line (and yes, ladies, he's available). We like yellow here and there. We used to have a creme-yellow living room back in Benicia. But in our graphic design days, straight yellow ink with anywhere from 5 to 10 percent red quotient really made stuff pop off the page when we were in a hurry to do something, anything. So we appreciate yellow's virtue. So, apparently, does the man who put together this flickr group.
– Davey G. Johnson
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Jalopnik
If you find yourself in Louisville, Kentucky within drop-in distance from the Visual Art Association's Water Tower building — it's the one that looks like a lighthouse — go there. As the NY Times's car-design beatwalker Phil Patton reports, a current exhibition offers a glimpse inside Detroit's studios during the we-can-do-anything days when the Buick Riviera, Pontiac GTO Judge and Chevy Chevelle were on the drawing board. It's an amazing retrospective, considering most early designs were closely guarded and most destroyed before anyone could stash them away for posterity. Apparently, some designers were better than others at selling their creations to the higher-ups, often by using devices like snow falling on a would-be Cadillac to add context. The guy who drew the Aztec must have studied under one of those guys. [NYT (reg. req.)]
