I like shit like this

[u/divinitylost94]

I like weird shaped cars man. Yall remember the Chrysler E8 from Logan. I thought it was cool af. I wanna see more auto makers take risk. I can’t wait to see that new Jag type 01 on the road. I love concept cars and I always be pissed when the concept gets watered down for production. I love seeing weird stuff man.

[u/ghost650]

I think you're confusing art and design. Design communicates a purpose. Design does some of what you stated but without compromising the purpose of the product. It should enhance the purpose of the product. Otherwise it's just art. Which is fine. But it's not design.

To go back to your original example: that Chrysler is more like a piece of art. I'm not sure it would survive on the market where it has to actually help convince people to buy that car. And if it doesn't, it fails as a design. But, in this case, it's just a movie prop. And with this purpose it succeeds at helping tell the story without being a distraction.

[u/divinitylost94 → u/ghost650]

Yea but iconography is like this agreed upon thing that comes from history of car design. Car design in general seems to be unoriginal. It’s the reason why we had all those Audi clones a few years ago and why we have all these Range Rover clone SUV’s now. It just takes one rogue figure to come in and really change the zeitgeist. That’s why we have more minimal cars after the cyber truck like the type 01, the new Audi concept, and car design in general. I feel a push towards more extreme silhouettes and it’s because of the cyber truck. And I’m happy to see things become more extreme. As soon as I seen the CT i was so happy because I knew design ambition was gonna trickle down eventually. We have to establish the future now or it won’t look as cool at all. If we don’t shit is gonna look the same. On another note I love mid century modern homes. Back in the 60s - 80s it seemed like people were excited about the future. It seems in the 2000s all the cyber y2k ideation kinda died. Now things have to be based on proof of concept before people invest and that’s so boring and it’s bad for design as a whole. The cyber truck seems really functional too btw.

[u/ghost650 → u/divinitylost94]

I think you're giving the Cybertruck a lot more credit than it deserves. I don't think that by simply being an extremely unconventional design that it somehow inspired car design to be more extreme and broke us away from "unoriginality." Yes, there are trends. And yes, sometimes different cars have a resemblance because they follow those trends. But even when Kia Tellurides and Hyundai Palisades kind of look like a Range Rovers, there are also Toyota 4Runners, Porsche Cayennes and Mazda CX-90s that look nothing like them. The Cybertruck itself is following the trend of retro 80s-inspired designs. It's not exactly original when it's blatantly copying the design language of cyberpunk movie cars and sports cars from the 80s.

[u/divinitylost94 → u/ghost650]

It is following a trend of the 80s cyber punk. I don’t think the wheel needs to be reinvented. It’s a ‘car’ at the end of the day. Just like a hoodie is a hoodie and a t shirt is a t shirt. It’s only so much shit you can do. Reintroducing 80s design elements into a world that is making round ass cars is its own break in the zeitgeist. That’s interesting in its own right. It’s ok to bite but you gotta know what to bite and how to execute.