Artist of the day: June 2022

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Artist of the Day, June 30, 2022: Franz von Holzhausen, an American transportation designer (#1609)

Franz von Holzhausen (1968) is an American transportation designer. Since 2008, he has been in charge of design at Tesla, Inc. He designed the Tesla Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the unveiled but not-yet-released Cybertruck, Semi, and second-generation Tesla Roadster. Prior to Tesla, he worked in design at Mazda, General Motors, and Volkswagen.

Going even farther back, Von Holzhausen attended Syracuse University for two years before transferring to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has a Bachelor’s in Transportation Design.

In 1992, Holzhausen started his career with Volkswagen, where he worked on the designs for the Microbus and the New Beetle concept project, known as "Concept One," under design lead J Mays.

In 2000, he moved to General Motors as a design manager where he worked on the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice.

In 2005, he took a role at Mazda, where he was chief of design.[ He led the designs of the Mazda Kabura concept car that debuted at the 2006 North American International Auto Show and of the Mazda Furai concept car that was unveiled at the 2008 North American International Auto Show, both in Detroit.

In 2008, he went to work for Tesla. He is known for designing Tesla vehicles, including the Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the unveiled but not-yet-released Cybertruck, Semi, and second-generation Tesla Roadster.

Franz von Holzhausen is married to Vicki von Holzhausen, a designer who runs the "von Holzhausen" fashion label focused on vegan leather products that are made from plant-based materials.
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Franz von Holzhausen

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Chevrolet SS Concept car

Chrysler concept car

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Mazda Racing

Tesla Cybertruck

Tesla Assembly

Tesla Roadster

Tesla Model 3s

Tesla Roadster

2020 Tesla Model 3 interior

Tesla Model 3 sketch

Tesla stock Model S P100D
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Tesla Semi early sketch drawing

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Artist of the Day, June 29, 2022: Hidetoshi Nagasawa, a Japanese sculptor and architect (#1608)

Hidetoshi Nagasawa (1940 – 2018) was a Japanese sculptor and architect, who lived and worked in Italy from 1967 until his death in 2018.

Nagasawa was born in Tonei, Manchuria, Japan (his parents were Japanese and had moved there because of his father’s work; he was an army doctor). He graduated in architecture in Tokyo in 1963. In 1966 he embarked on a long bicycle trip across Asia and Europe, eventually reaching Milan where he decided to permanently settle in 1968. In 1979 he founded the Casa degli Artisti in Milan together with Luciano Fabro and Jole De Sanna.

Nagasawa's sculptures were made of materials such as paper, wood, stone and metal, and incorporated Eastern and Western cultural and religious elements. In the 1980s, he started creating his first environments, exploring the relationship between sculpture and architecture.

Nagasawa was a lecturer at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He participated to the Venice Biennale in 1972, 1976, 1982 and 1988. He was invited to Documenta 9 in Kassel in 1992 and in 2006 he participated in the XII Biennale of Sculpture in Carrara. He has also held solo shows at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan (1988), the Galleria Comunale in Bologna (1993), and the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca (1996).

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