28.2.2017
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...
13.2.2015
Guess what I am doing there in the good company of race driver Sabine Schmitz, television-heavy-weight Jumbo Schreiner and the two young car-tuning aficionados? Then be prepared to watch with me the forthcoming series of Test my Ride, broadcasting weekly from March 9th...
10.12.2014
My eBook "Design 2 Go" has just been released: a selection of 99 out of more than 400 design critiques written in the last decade for the german economical and financial newspaper Handelsblatt. As I put it with Mercedes-Benz: "The best or nothing" when it comes to des...
19.11.2014
Urban mobility is today’s hot topic in Asia. The Audi Urban Future Initiative just interviewed me about the emerging social aspects connected with the perception of the automobile in Seoul.
5.10.2014
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).
20.6.2014
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...
12.6.2014
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...
12.5.2014
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...