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Friday, March 7, 2008 The Man Behind the Most Beautiful CarEvery time we look into those beautiful cars on the road, we would sometimes wonder how the concepts have been brought up and who the people were behind their developments. While I drifted my thoughts on this, I finally met Henrik Fisker on the net. I didn’t have a chance to have a face-to-face talk with him so I just suit myself reading on an interview with him. It is just pretty timely that all the queries I have in mind were answered by Henrik Fisker on a Three-Part Interview with him. Of course, good design and cost must go hand and hand. So the curious “me” had this intention of knowing how does true design excels as compared to the gimmicks of the other auto manufacturers. When asked by Jake Stride about the cost of beauty, the master car designer responded, “...a design that is beautiful – except for the manufacturing challenges – is no more expensive to make than an ugly design. There is no excuse, really, for doing an ugly design.” Then he continued discussing how he has gained inspiration on this when he stated, “But where do I get the idea for the design? Whenever I’m awake, I think about cars. It’s not really something that’s from 9 to 4, and it’s not even exclusive to the 5 days a week; it is 7 days a week. It’s when I drive to work, I look at cars and I wonder, “Why’d they do that? I would not have done it like that.” Whenever I watch television, I always watch what cars people are driving…everything, it’s always cars. I think my inspiration just comes out of looking at cars, looking at what type of people are in cars, looking at how light reflects on the cars, that’s how I get my ideas. And I always have more ideas than I have cars to do, so I don’t think there’s ever a danger of running out of ideas. It’s more the other way around; you don’t have enough opportunity to actually put your ideas out.” And just like anyone else, Henrik Fisker had gathered his own perception and expectations in doing what he loves. He even said, “One of the things I wanted to change – which is just a detail, really – is that I wanted to get away from having carpet on the doors. I felt it was really ridiculous to have carpet on the doors, just because a lot of people kick the door. I thought, “This is an Aston Martin, this is a high quality car, and the interior is like an expensive leather couch.” You don’t put a carpet patch on an expensive Italian leather couch at home because somebody might kick it. You clean it after, or you make sure they don’t kick it. So, there is no carpet on the doors of the DB9. This was an important thing to take out.” To sum it all up, Henrik Fisker has taught me and even those who have come to read his three-part interview on what to consider in designing “the most beautiful car on the road.” These factors include the design, inspiration, materials, light, shadow, size and proportion. Labels: Auto Inspiration, Auto Parts, Car Design, Henrik Fisker
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