{"id":2101,"date":"2008-04-16T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T04:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:35","slug":"stealth-styling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/04\/16\/stealth-styling\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth &amp; Styling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2418253208\/\" title=\"20080415_091401 by JulianBleeckr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3254\/2418253208_8072b63c3c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"20080415_091401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2417444329\/\" title=\"20080415_091453 by JulianBleeckr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3025\/2417444329_654b754446.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"20080415_091453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Some saran-wrapped pre-market cars convoy up the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Coast_Highway_%28California%29\">PCH<\/a>. They&#8217;re all heavily instrumented \u2014 you can see instrument fittings and computers inside. Each has a driver and some kind of tech dude in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting to me mostly because of what&#8217;s being cloaked. It&#8217;s not the broad lines \u2014 it might be Porsche in there \u2014 but the more subtle style and accents. Overhead at the studio amongst those with automobile design chops are stories about the high-point styling practices that go on in that airy community. This plastic wrap is so blobby that you can&#8217;t see any of the curves that the designers probably fussed over forever. And this is the kind of thing that these designers puzzle over \u2014 how to get a contour to roll sunlight along the hood, or a unique join between the rear lights and the fender. Whatever. That kind of fetish object styling.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic wrap gives it all away. What they&#8217;re protecting is their over-attention to style and fashion and the seduction that lines can create in the appearance of a car. This says a lot about this particular design practice, where style trumps other design principles.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some saran-wrapped pre-market cars convoy up the PCH. They&#8217;re all heavily instrumented \u2014 you can see instrument fittings and computers inside. Each has a driver and some kind of tech dude in the passenger seat. This is interesting to me mostly because of what&#8217;s being cloaked. It&#8217;s not the broad lines \u2014 it might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/04\/16\/stealth-styling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stealth &amp; Styling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stealth &amp; Styling - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/04\/16\/stealth-styling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stealth &amp; Styling - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some saran-wrapped pre-market cars convoy up the PCH. 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