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Automotive Artists: Exterior Designer Irina Zavatski

Eric Gallina — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Irina Zavatski is an automotive designer from a small republic called Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union. She attended both the College of Creative Studies in Detroit and Cleveland Institute of Art, but perhaps what makes her more unique is her perspective — that of a woman that’s managed to achieve success in what has always historically been a male-dominated industry. Zavatski is an exterior design manager working for FCA in Detroit, Michigan. In 2017, she was deemed a ‘rising […]

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Automotive Artists: Russian Painter Ilya Avakov

Eric Gallina — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Ilya Avakov is a trained industrial designer who creates wonderful works of automotive art in his spare time. Form Trends catches up with the 36-year-old artist from Lermontov, in Russia’s southern Stavropol region. When did you start to paint? I’ve been of drawing since childhood, like all designers probably. My parents are creative people: my father is an interior designer and my mother a sculptor. I grew up surrounded by their creative spirits. Then when I was 15, I began […]

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A Look into the Brilliance of Tom Fritz’s Automotive Art

Eric Gallina — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:33:39 +0000

Tom Fritz is one of my favorite automotive artists. His ability to capture light, speed and emotion is simply unparalleled and, with this, he manages to tell wonderful stories. Working with oil, Fritz paints honest, beautiful and evocative images that dance off the stretched canvas and into the viewer’s eyes. I could look at them for hours, and I have. Fritz is a mainstay at the Automotive Fine Art Society (AFAS)’s annual exhibition at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where […]

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Swiss Photographer’s Disintegrating II Series is a Masterful Mix of Media

Eric Gallina — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:39:50 +0000

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner is at it again, showcasing the second part of his acclaimed Disintegrating photographic series with another installation at Geneva-based M.A.D. Gallery’s Taipei outpost as well as in Dubai and Geneva. Disintegrating II is an exhibition of five large-format prints. The artworks on display are part of Oefner’s Disintegrating series, which follows the original series that debuted at the MB&F M.A.D. Gallery in 2013. Like the first exhibition, the images of the Disintegrating II series are exploded […]

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Syd Mead Creates New Poster To Commemorate EyesOn Design

Eric Gallina — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:00:12 +0000

Syd Mead, visual futurist extraordinaire, is the 2017 recipient of the EyesOn Design Lifetime Design Achievement Award, given annually by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO). To commemorate the event, Mead revealed a new work of art created specifically for the 30th annual EyesOn Design Automotive Design Exhibition, which takes place each Father’s Day at the former Edsel and Eleanor Ford mansion in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan. The poster, unveiled at a ceremony at John Varvatos in downtown Detroit, bears […]

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Cure Collection: Car Art to Fund Breast Cancer Research

Eric Gallina — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:39:50 +0000

Art Center College of Design student and friend of Form Trends, Mason Watson, has been creating car-themed apparel since 2013. After his mother passed away from breast cancer in 2008, he decided to create the clothing line to raise awareness of the deadly disease, and he donates 20 percent of all proceeds to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Watson has now rebranded what was formerly known as ‘Cars for a Cure Apparel’ to ‘Cure Collection’ and expanded his offerings. Besides […]

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American Dreaming Creators Open Car Style Detroit Exhibition

Eric Gallina — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:23:25 +0000

The American Dreaming documentary currently in the works is one of the films we’re really looking forward to watching. But until we get to see the final product — chock full of interviews with the designers themselves — we’re happy to whet our appetites for the forthcoming film at events like last year’s American Dreaming exhibition at Lawrence Technological University. Robert Edwards and co-producer Greg Salustro, the documentary’s creators, are now offering automotive enthusiasts a chance to catch a larger […]

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Inside Camilo Pardo’s Detroit Studio

Eric Gallina — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:41:11 +0000

Camilo Pardo splits his time between Detroit and Los Angeles, working out of two spaces to create the brilliant artwork that adorns the homes and offices of those fortunate enough to have the means to purchase one of his pieces. Ford’s bought two. Camilo dabbles in automotive design, painting, furniture and fashion design, and opens the doors to his studio to host the original (and best) designer’s afterparty every year during the Detroit auto show press days. This year I […]

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Automotive Artists: Grigory Bars

Eric Gallina — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:25:13 +0000

Grigory Butin (aka Grigory Bars) is one of the most gifted automotive artists I’ve seen whilst perusing the Internet. Proportions, color, stance; nearly every piece he creates is amazing. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, he was bitten by the creative bug early on. We find out about how he got his start. Why did you change your name? My actual name is Grigory Butin, but Grigory Bars is an old nickname that I was given in high school. I don’t […]

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BMW Celebrates 40 Years of Art Cars at Villa d’Este

Eric Gallina — Wed, 27 May 2015 10:00:55 +0000

The renowned BMW Art Car Collection celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The celebrations got under way with exhibitions in Hong Kong, the Centre Pompidou, the BMW Museum and the Concorso d’Eleganza on Lake Como, where the first four BMW Art Cars by Alexander Calder (1975 3.0 CSL), Frank Stella (1976 3.0 CSL), Roy Lichtenstein (1977 320i) and Andy Warhol (1979 M1), plus the M3 GT2 created by Jeff Koons in 2010 were on display last weekend. It all started […]

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Jaguar Designer Cesar Pieri to Showcase Unique Artwork

Eric Gallina — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:27:21 +0000

A full collection of one-off and hand painted Jaguar hoods will be presented for the first time at an exhibition this spring. The collection was created and hand-painted by designer Cesar Pieri, who decided to express his love for Jaguars by mixing original, classic Jaguar engine covers and his own painting style, creating a very exclusive and exciting artwork collection. The exhibition will be held from Friday May 22nd through Monday June 8th at Fargo Creative Village in Coventry, England. […]

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Top Five Carmaker Installations at the 2015 Salone del Mobile

Nargess Shahmanesh Banks — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:08:12 +0000

The creative world congregates in Milan annually for Salone del Mobile. The coveted design fair has grown widely in the last few years to expand from its hub at the main fairground in Rho, taking over pockets of edgier urban areas. It is increasingly in these hidden enclaves that you are likely to come across some of the more experimental work, including collaborative projects instigated by carmakers. The auto world has been eyeing up Milan for some years — after […]

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