Design is a paramount tenet of the Audi brand, and given its success in that field, it’s no surprise that many independent designers and design students choose Audi as the subject of their projects. With that in mind, Fourtitude is beginning an ongoing series of articles focusing on an independent take on Audi design. Designers and students outside of Audi’s numerous design studios offer an interesting slant, sometimes but not always different from Audi’s own corporate design language. As the first subject of this series, we take a look at design student Luis Camino and his approach to the much-rumored Audi A1.

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If you're really interested in auto design in general, I strongly recommend Car Design News: http://www.cardesignnews.com/

It's probably the best site on the Internet for general design discussion. Unfortunately, it costs $130/yr to belong.

One of the things I really like in this A2 design, BTW, is the ovoid grille that was carried over from the old Auto Union racers. I'm really NOT a fan of Audi's current grille design theme--I don't feel it has the brand "integrity" (for lack of a better word) of the more vintage grille, and I think the beauty really showed with the Rosemeyer concept.

Oh, and wow--I just looked at your Fourtitude galleries to find a picture of the Rosemeyer, and I never realized what a resource you'd built there.

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chernaudi - original A2 was never designed for US crash regulations. Additionally, being made of aluminum, it cost more than the A3. This all combined in the car being so misunderstood, that it wasn't even a sales success in Europe. Sad, as I liked it very much.

Thanks on the galleries. It's been a pet project of mine since launch, and I've been trying hard to make it as conclusive as possible. I think it'll always be a work in progress. I'm so geeky about it, I even buy old press kits off of ebay from time to time. It's an afliction, but one with a positive result.

Anyway, I am with you 100% on the Auto Union grille. While I like the current Audi grille, I think that the design would be so much cooler with more of that aggressive Rosemeyeresque grille. That may be the direction of the Audi design evolution. I know da Silva has said that the cross bar is going away. The next move is to go more in that direction... at least from my perspective.

Fan of Cher and Audi

Also a fan of:
Within Temptation
Q: The only thing more emotive and piercing than the sound of V12 supercar engine?
A: The voice of Sharon den Adel(lead singer of WT)

"no one's ever going to write, "Oh, she's actually just a pretty f---in' average chick who really loves what she does." That's not gonna happen."-Kristen Stewart