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One Lap of the Web: Motel kitsch, Bentley dragsters and rusting Porsches

-- The roach motel lives on in these postcards from Petrolicious. The Googie signs and modernist architecture jump from the Howard Johnsons and Travelodges of the 1950s, when buildings were built in color. For a precious few decades in the tapestry of American interstate travel, before they became the refuge of schlocky horror movies, the motor hotel was the true King of the Road.

2011 Ford Focus Price revealed

The 2011 Ford Focus starts at £15,995 We’ve had lots of news on the 2011 Ford Focus this year, from the initial reveal of the 2011 Focus at Detroit in January to the preview of the new Focus ST at Frankfurt in September. But one thing that has been missing is prices and specifications for the new Focus. But your life should now be complete with the release today of the prices and specs for the new Focus in time for when it starts to hit the roads in March.

An Audience with Syd Mead at CCS

"Visual futurist and concept artist." Like some sort of Transformer, those words combine to create an ideal job description for many an industrial designer. With the world of design becoming more varied, and our jobs becoming more demanding of diversity, it's no surprise that many of us venture into adjacent professions. Industrial Design has adapted especially well recently to Hollywood, bringing our experience to recent films like Avatar and Prometheus, but the trend actually goes back several decades.