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On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan nominated 100 ambassadors of Italian culture (designers, entrepreneurs, journalists, critics, communicators, teachers...), who will illustrate th...

I was happy to answer few questions about emerging trends in automotive marketing and design. The opportunities and threats connected to the ever growing number of models seem to be one major issue, as the articles by Fabian Hoberg, here in the version published by Ber...

I am thrilled by the news that my little yellow Car Design Asia won a 2014 ADAC Autobuch Award – 2nd in the category Design. I certainly would not blame myself for not winning: top of the list was the long awaited monography of famous Zagato designer Ercole Spada (less...

The VW Van, Bulli for the Teutons, is just one more popular automobile myth. Or, as I said to Denise Juchem for Welt am Sonntag: "the baby boomer’s swan song". Her story was also published in the Hamburger Abendblatt – here for you to enjoy (in German).

The car industry gives big tits! A fabolous exchange of opinions with Maike Schade, one off the female-only editorial staff of the German female-only automobile website Car.a.Mia, has turned into a refreshing talk* about cars and their design.

While I could hardly avoi...

Of all Car Design Asia, my latest book, the chapter Ikonik—incidentally covering highly collectable post 1964 sportscars by Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota—ought to be the most appealing to the discerning classic car enthusiast.

While I must not 100% agree with this vi...

I always wanted to visit the famous classic car station Grosstankstelle Brandshof in Hamburg. My friend and collaborator Christopher Butt took "Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe" and proposed to stage a presentation of our Car Design Asia just there last June 12th.

Welcomi...

Just as I was about to ask what became of it, DHL delivered a freshly printed copy of Automotive Management edited by Bernhard Ebel and Markus B. Hofer for Springer Gabler of Hamburg.

Ten years after the first issue, this ultimate compendium adds more professional insi...

My car design trilogy is now complete! A panorama of the modern automobile from Europe, America and Asia, viewed not so much as technological or aesthetical good, but rather under a cultural perspective.

Fashion, film, music, art, design, architecture, politics economi...

I was more than happy to follow the invitation of publisher Hendrik teNeues to present my two Aston Martin books in Munich. Sure to fit Hendrik’s lifestyle—he calls a four wings bavarian Schloss  home—was the location selected for the venue: the Brienner Strasse flagsh...