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Article: Design driven - Iconic products inspire look of Franz Von Holzhausen's Mazda concept cars
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2007
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At least once in your life, maybe while bored during a classroom
lecture, you have likely attempted to create a rough sketch of an
airplane, bicycle, or automobile. And if you're like me, the results
were less than spectacular.
But if you're Franz Von Holzhausen, doodling leads to sketches
that might eventually become an auto show concept car such as the
Mazda Kabura - introduced a year ago at the Los Angeles Auto Show -
or the Nagare concept car Mazda unveiled in December at the latest LA
auto show.
Von Holzhausen, Mazda's design director for North America, was
drawing cars as a 2-year-old.
"You'll have to take my mother's word for that," he said.
Based on his later work - it's regularly on ...