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Architects design extravagant portable EVs solar-charging pavilion

Architects Synthetic Design + Architecture has designed a portable, solar-charging pavilion for electric vehicles using integrated photovoltaic cells. A beautiful, flowing form made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) mesh fabric incorporating the photovoltaic panels, allowing the pavilion to act as a charger. Designed to combine structure, form and performance, carbon rods are twisted into curves by the digitally-designed mesh contours.

Awesome Hot Wheels photos from Killer Mike's Instagram, Pt. 1

If you're following Atlanta rapper Killer Mike on Instagram —and we're sure you are—you've no doubt noticed that he's filling his feed with artfully composed photos of his Hot Wheels collection. Mike's R.A.P. Music is widely considered to be one of the best hip hop records of the year, so he's earned a little leisure time.

Starting Out: CDN launches Car Design Glossary

Drawing is the basic language of designers, and is the time-honoured way in which a designer will communicate an idea. However, designers are often required to describe or explain their designs - and the work of others - in words, and for this, they need a vocabulary. The vocabulary they use is one whose origins stretch back to another era and to different disciplines, and which, with the now multi-cultural nature of the profession and advances in computer technology, is still growing.