This post has nothing to do with car design and cars at all. As a person who loves music a lot, today’s news of Michael Jackson leaving us made me feel sad, very sad indeed! The music as we know it wouldn’t be the same without him, his talent and contribution to the world of music are unmeasurable by any means!

I just want to share with you a few of his songs! I am sure you know them all…and love them all!

Goodbye and Thank you Michael!
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Hi all,

I feel obliged to do this because It has been a long time since I last posted something. It is not because I don’t want to, or I don’t pay attention to my blog…It’s mainly because the lack of free time.
As usual, I am quite busy working while at the other hand until recently I had to deal with some other technical and administrative issues - few of them serious enough to delay the highly anticipated DVD with my tutorials. Thank you for your patience, by the way! Things are moving!!!
Nevertheless, somehow I find few spare minutes to do my projects and the things I want to show you are piling up….so, stay tuned!

Here is a list of the things coming next:

- After a month or something I will show you the development sketches of the 3 seater Aston Martin HE-Hybrid Concept I am designing. Some of you may have seen the initial sketches on Car Design News back in 2007, but the car changed a little bit. This car has really grown on me and it’s getting even more interesting!

- A little work on the front of the Maserati GT-Uno is coming up too. Still searching for something I want to stick with.

- Few renders of a project I did last year that didn’t have the chance to show you earlier. Hopefully they will be uploaded on the website too.

- For the people who enjoy my work, there will be a Print Shop available some time in the summer. A selection of my designs will be available for you on A3 and A2 sizes, as well as some renderings of classic sports cars.

- Last but not least important, there is an interview that I think you will enjoy reading in two weeks time - at latest.

yours,
miro

Yeah it was about time to do some work on this one…my tablet was getting dusty at home. This project could be running slow but I will finish it one day Now…seriously…I still look for a good theme “surface-wise” for this car and if having more time I will bring it closer to a defined concept that has something more to show. I found few potentially interesting solutions for the front wing that worth exploring. All in all when available and when having the proper mood, I will continue developing this one. I will do it! Feedback?

miro

Hello again!

I hope people here enjoy visiting and reading this blog because I have a lot coming on the way…mainly cars!

This evening I decided to share one image with you. It is a picture of the Formula Ford series car, that has Bio-Ethanol engine and took a part in the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in 2007. Just before I leave FORD in the summer of 2007 I was given one short and a little unusual project - to create the livery of this Formula Ford Bio-Ethanol car.

The task was to create a graphic that really shows the public this car is Eco-Friendly. At the beginning I found the project boring but as it progressed during the week I started to enjoy it and came up with some bold ideas such as the “Crazy Cow” and other ridiculous stuff… The customer liked one of them - The Sunflowers! Huge yellow sunflowers wrapping the whole car. We considered two options for making this decoration job. 1st Option was to bring it for a paint job where every single detail will be air-brushed by hand and the whole car will be as a piece of art. This would be really cool but takes so long, it is expensive and just a small scratch can ruin the piece of art. The 2nd Option we actually took was to make it out of vinyl on a base of a pure white car. I insisted on making it like a puzzle - several pieces/jigs that bring the whole picture of the Yellow Sunflowers and having a small white margin of 50mm between the vinyl pieces (the actual colour of the car), where the shut lines of the body panels join together.

Unfortunately they didn’t make it the way I insisted (with the small margins between the vinyl templates), also something went wrong when printing the vinyls because they look more Orange than Yellow….as well as the actual Sunflowers are more like ordinary flowers unfortunately! Nevertheless, the car still looked fresh and cool at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2007.

Dear all,

I am sure you’ve noticed my inactivity in the recent months, this is due to the fact that I’ve been quite busy at work and not only there… therefore I didn’t have much time to spend on the blog. But no worries, things are looking absolutely great and the financial crisis doesn’t bother me at all or reflect on my mood in a way :)))) There is a lot more to come….and I am catching up with it!

I’ve been thinking and organizing this FAQ page for a long time and it’s finally here. It is designed especially for the young and talented ones (of course, girls are always welcome!) passionate about chasing a career in car/transportation design. I’ve been receiving a lot of e-mails with different questions, on the base of which I designed the page, I hope you’ll find important information on how to start, design schools, preparing a portfolio, getting into the industry and so on. Professional designers also feel Welcome to contribute with their comments to the page!

best,
miro

In the creative field it’s usual to have things that inspire you, things that you like, things made by other people that you adore so much that you wish you have “DONE IT” firts. You can see that everywhere: Music Industry, Industrial Design of course….Architecture….everywhere! People and even companies (in our case car companies) copying each other and this is an issue we have to live with…

I had 5 minutes to spare this morning on my PC and accidentally I popped on this website: http://www.achatham.com/ I found the arrangement of the slides suspiciously similar to my website made by RIZN. I don’t think I can say something about the use of grey, black and cyan/blue colours on a white background, however I think this guy was quite impressed from the beautiful work of the guys at RIZN. To make it clear: I am NOT saying he is copying my sketches and designs, I just point-out the fact that his website has some really similar “design solutions” to my website.

When it comes to copying someone’s idea you can only take it as a compliment. This is the way I had to accept the work of a guy who graduated one year after me in Coventry University. On his degree show in 2006, he displayed a car that is totally different from my scale model, however the design of his car and especially the top (the rear top and the green house) was 90% according to the sketches I displayed in my book next to my model in the previous year. Moreovere, I saw him picturing with his camera EVERY single page of my book while I was there. As far as I remember he went to the Royal College for his Masters and now he is probably enjoying a successful career in the car design.
For me…I can take it only as a compliment. This is the silent but vivid proof that you’ve done something people like - something that inspired them. It means that people notice you, people want to do it like you!

Going back on the previous issue. RIZN is well known for creating amazing websites. It’s not the first time their work has been copied and it won’t be the last. They, just like me can take it only as a compliment…

I’ll leave you make your judgement.

What we’ve got here is the beautiful Maserati Merak. I tried to make a proper marker rendering for fun and exercise the old school techniques a little bit…
Everything was goign fine UNTILL the last moment when I had to pick up the white gouache/tempera paint for the details and effects. That was THE WORST white paint I’ve ever tried to work with….so greasy and absolutely no density at all. Disgusting, I’ll never use this crap again. It turned the most fun and easy moment into a nightmare… I am absolutely no happy with this and I almost lost the entire illustration…

The nex thing coming is Ferrari illustration. This time no mistakes allowed!

Hello to everyone!!!

Here I am showing you some work I did for a client earlier this summer. I usually keep client’s work strictly confidential and never disclose it, however this time for some various reasons the project has been stopped at a stage and further development on design has been compromised and I have the privilege to reveal you quite a lot of the design work I did.

As said on the website, I was hired by a customer in the US to give the initial kick on a project that was to be developed into series of production vehicles all using hybrid technology and sharing identical platforms.

What we’ve got here is a classical American pick-up truck - as defined from the initial brief and it is an electric/hybrid alternative to its current rivals on the market such as Dodge Ram, Ford F150, GMC Sierra etc. The new vehicle outlined in the brief was not to be too futuristic looking, nor too similar to the current ones on the roads /the ones that it will try to steal a market share of/. it is powered by Li-Ion batteries as a small combustion engine was a kind of considered too.

The interior was designed according to the requirements of the customer. As with the exterior, the vehicle has similar interior specifications to its rivals in this class. New features like wide use of electronic devices and touch screens are standard for all the electric cars planned for going into production.

Well….for the rest I’ll leave you go through the sketches and have a look yourself. Feel free to let me know what think of this! I appreciate it….many thanks!

yours
miro

Hello to everyone!

Time to get back to posting! Finally!

According to the statistics of this web blog I found out that many visitors are interested into Tutorials and “how to” make the things. Also, quite a lot of you contacted me asking for some help on how to improve their skills. Therefore I decided to share even more of my knowledge and experience with making a DVD.

However, before doing it (although I’ve started working on that already) I though it’s a good idea to ask the visitors what they should be most interested to find in the DVD. Is it that you’re more interested into sketching and how to build the line drawing or more into rendering. Maybe both.
In any case I have decided to put no less than 2-3 VIDEO tutorials on the DVD (not only 1 like the ones you find in the internet). In addition to this I will iclude some detailed step-by-step tutorials you haven’t seen yet and bunch of tips that I am sure will be pretty useful to all interested…

I am opened to any advice/request on what to include in the DVD. I’ll be most grateful if you give me a hand with this in order to create DVD that helps most! Feel free to contact me or post your needs at will.

Cheers,
Miro

The saga continues with this…
Part 03

Here we are with few more sketches on the subject. My mind is getting more and more involved into this… I am still in the search of the best shape for this car. To be continued….

Part 02

Part 01

Hello to all!

Here is a small update on the Maserati. The project is still in it’s initial stage where the main proportions and surfaces are to be decided. I remembered what pleasure is to work on a supercar….yeah!
More sketches coming soon! Stay tuned!

Feedback?

yours,
miro

Hello to everyone!
Let’s kick off with something…This is my virgin sketch for the new blog. As some of you may know I am working on a Maserati Sports Car for my portfolio, so here is an update sketch on the subject.
Hope you like it! Feedback is always welcome!

Will post some new sketches when available.

miro

I am very happy to announce my new website…finally, we waited so long for it All the efforts paid off at the end and I am extremely pleased with the result. It’s all about the presentation and now I have a digital pofolito to be proud of!

I have to say I owe many thanks to RIZN Communication Design for the outstanding job they put through. Their professional touch is far too vivid….and I feel a kind of special for all the attention they paid to my needs. I must say Thank You to Absolutely everyone involved into this. Great work guys!

I know this may sound a little like the MTV Awards, but I have to express my gratitude to all my freinds and people who contributed and supported me…and my girlfriend Vihra, who is behind me all the time!

yours,
miro

“We are committed to motorsport, we intend to stay committed and our cars are the better for it”
BMW

BMW T1 Motorsport is a supercar devoted to BMW’s Motorsport success…

After many years of success on the motor track and plenty of models who won any kind of sport event in the world, BMW hasn’t produced anything like a car to celebrate it, yet? Why? When cars like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche didn’t exist yet, BMW already won plenty of victories at that time and proved to be a great company inspired from the competition.

In the late 1930s BMW 328 was a car capable of beating anything in the 2-liter capacity, no matter what the terrain is. The Model scored more than 100 victories in a very short time. It was BMW again who was capable of beating cars with three times its litre capacity in the early 60s, thanks to 700 coupe. Even later on, it was BMW who seized the world’s first championship recorded by a turbo-charged engine, it was BMW who delivered 6 litres of VI2 energy to motivate McLaren in epic confrontation with Porsche and Mercedes in global GT racing and win Le Mans on its debut and wrote down the record for speed by a serial car in 1998.
Unfortunately, this is information close only to people familiar with the sport history of the Munich Company. For the people who are not interested from that, BMW is just one car manufacturer. Manufacturer famous with the production of good quality motorcycles, cars and mountain bikes.
So I decided, car to commemorate the BMW’s Motorsport glory is needed…
Continue reading ‘BMW T1 Motorsport’

Started at the end of 2005, this was a study of a modern luxury car featuring the classical luxury elements & materials over the exterior body. Even the most expensive cars nowadays have metal or aluminum body only and nothing like exotic materials to compliment the good design or execution of the car.
This is the reason I decided to have such a concept included in my portfolio. Doing the classical limo or just refining and styling it with new materials such as gold coated grill for example was not what I needed. While having fun, I tried to be bold and brave when playing with this project, using finest quality red wood frame, high-gloss see through glass panels and high quality leather too.
I also planned some interesting conceptual solutions such as the front assembling panels of V12 Limo and the way the doors are going to be fixed for the body side.

Dacia Logan 2012 Sedan/Coupe was a project that was due to be presented on my interview for an exterior design position in the brand new design centre of Renault Design in Bucharest, Romania. I was given an assignment to produce some sketches in my spare time.

Instead of spending time digging into one direction or making a dozen sketches related to one design approach, I decided to have more diversity within my work by shooting in different directions – some of them not typical to the current Dacia production line. Dacia is a car maker known to be producing low-budget cars. However, my own opinion is that even the low-cost vehicles on the market should benefit from their own dignity (a chance to stand-out from the rest), attractive look or just a smart design that doesn’t let the vehicle down.
This is the reason why in my sketches I was mostly seeking for something that can help Dacia to “shine” on this already overcrowded market niche. Some of the drawings show a moderately aggressive vehicle but that’s a current tendency followed by all car manufacturers, other drawings show a vehicle with classic automotive attitude/stance – something that BMW or Maserati could possibly do. Although very hard to design for production, It would be very interesting if Dacia comes up with a concept/prototype based on the Logan but tending to be more like a limousine – a little bit bigger, longer wheel base, classical automotive attitude and design that isn’t shy to speak for itself.