Stylists at Mazda Motor Corp. are renowned for their faith in old-school clay modeling when it comes to creating the brand's curvaceous Kodo car designs. But to perfect the voluptuous bends and molten ...

A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The finished wall sculpture surrounded by handmade ceramic furniture and objects, including a cobalt dividing screen, stoneware oval table and bronze ...

Digital imaging, virtual reality and 3D modeling have improved in the past decade but most designers and decision-makers are still unprepared to approve new designs without physical models. It's ...

WARREN, Mich. — Car designers have every kind of software and virtual reality tool. But when they want to make sure a car's curves look just right, they rely on one of the world's oldest materials: ...

Truthfully, we don't know much, except that Saleen's early design renderings and the full-scale clay model looks for all the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Your old vase is one DIY away from becoming a handcrafted work of art, and you don't need tons of craft skills to make it happen. Thanks to ...

Kyiv design brand Faina looked to traditional local materials for items of furniture made from clay, wood, willow and flax that tell the story of Ukraine's design roots. Cabinets with doors crafted ...

For all the technology that goes into fabricating a car, its design process is still stubbornly analog. A car designer’s most valued tools and materials sound not unlike a fourth grader describing how ...

In this special lookbook sponsored by natural finishes brand Clayworks, we've selected 10 interiors from our archives that feature walls finished with the brand's clay plaster. Clay finishes are a ...

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN: American automaker Ford Motor Company is using clay to craft, re-craft and recycle the pliable stuff, to design its car models. “We are constantly being influenced by new ...

New cars have enough digital horsepower to connect to the Internet while going 70 miles an hour, compute speed and direction multiple times a second and drive themselves for long stretches if the law ...