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Each year since 1997, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has been graced by a Central Feature, a grand sculpture celebrating a particular marque and its latest anniversary or celebration. In 2016, the honored carmaker is BMW, which is marking 100 years in business by taking a trio of spectacular concept cars on a world tour. For Goodwood, BMW has brought some of its finest classics to show off, and three of them have been attached at the ends of the three enormous steel curves forming the structure of this striking creation.

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Jim Wicks, the man responsible for the celebrated designs of the 2013 Moto X and 2014 Moto 360 smartwatch, is leaving the former Motorola after 15 years of loyal service. Having joined Motorola in 2001 after design lead roles at Sony and Sapient, Wicks was part of the leadership team that stayed on during the tumult of being taken over by Google and sold on to Lenovo. But this year has seen the Motorola name phased out from public use and Rick Osterloh, the previous chief of the company, departing to head up a new hardware unit at Google. Wicks is now following suit and moving into academia, joining Northwestern University’s Segal Design Institute as a full-time faculty member.

The once-Motorola is now an embattled mobile hardware…

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Lately, it seems a certain type of reporter is clutching his pearls about the emergence of NASA jumpsuits as fashion items. In the case of Ars Technica’s Eric Berger, this freak-out was precipitated by the appearance of a jumpsuit in Teen Vogue. For Vinay Menon, writing in the Toronto Star, it’s model Cara Delevingne wearing a jumpsuit in an Instagram shot. How dare you, they whine. Don’t you know you’re not going to space?

Here’s Menon:

A spacesuit for everyday wear? What’s next? A beekeeper suit for the gym? A haz-mat suit for formal functions?

Hey bro: who asked you?That’s pretty fucked up, on a number of fronts. First of all, it’s a jumpsuit — I don’t see any helmets or gloves or breathing-assistance devices, as one does with…

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The Panorama music festival is coming up in just over a month, and we’re excited about it — it’s where our focus on the collision of technology, science, art, and culture comes to life with headliners like Kendrick Lamar, LCD Soundsystem, and Arcade Fire. Last week we announced The Lab, a 70-foot video dome that acts as a fully immersive 360-degree VR theater, all powered by our sponsor HP. And starting today, we’re taking the chance to showcase the innovative artists creating installations to bring those collisions into focus over the next few weeks.

Now, when it comes to art, nothing beats experiencing it first hand. You don’t have to be an adherent of Walter Benjamin’s to believe that something fundamental is lost when reproduced in…

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BMW is on a world tour this year with a selection of concept cars that present its vision for the next 100 years of automotive development. Catering to our wildest adolescent fantasies, these cars are aggressively, almost absurdly futuristic, with this week’s debutant Rolls-Royce and Mini models exhibiting a preference for pizzazz over practicality. BMW’s own-brand Vision Next 100 vehicle is no less extreme, eschewing traditional things like a dashboard and rear-view mirrors in favor of high-tech alternatives.

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BMW is celebrating its centenary this year, starting with the BMW Vision Next 100 concept car in March that demonstrated what a Bimmer of the distant future could look like. Today the company’s world tour arrived in London, and brought with it the debut of two intensely futuristic cars from a pair of famed British brands: the Rolls-Royce and Mini Vision Next 100 concepts.

Before we delve into any of the technical novelties of the concept Mini, we have to talk about this thing’s design. It’s impossible to miss the striking transparency of its front and spartan minimalism of its interior. Where other cars have instrument clusters, this Mini has a single bar, which accommodates just two components: the steering wheel, which can slide…

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Rolls-Royce is a marque known for being exceptional, and today it truly lived up to its name with the unveiling of a new Vision 100 concept car. It’s part of parent company BMW’s centenary celebrations, envisioning what the future of mobility will look like in another 20 or 30 years. The RR answer is simply staggering in the extremism of its opulence and swagger. I witnessed it rolling in to the stage here in London this morning, and it felt like I was attending the inauguration of a giant cruise ship. Measuring nearly 20 feet in length (5.9m) and five feet tall, the Vision 100 dwarfs its occupants and nearby attendants in a way that even the grandest present-day Rolls-Royces can’t quite match.

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Google Fonts has been an invaluable web resource since the search giant launched the database in 2010. The goal has been to create a bank of open source fonts and match it with underlying engineering to enable those fonts to work quickly and efficiently across millions of websites viewed billions of times a day. The old Google Fonts, however, doesn’t match the design-centric philosophy behind the initiative. So Google let its design team give the website a visual overhaul to make its interface easier to use and more aesthetically pleasing.

The new Google Fonts is now in line with the company’s Material Design guidelines. It has both a new logo and a far easier way to test out new fonts, compare them with others, and change preferences…

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Starting next month, London’s public transportation system will start looking a little different. Transport for London (TfL) will begin rolling out a new typeface for the London Underground and the city’s bus system. The typeface is called Johnston100, an iteration of the TfL’s original Johnston typeface, which has been around since 1916.

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The hot new gimmick for smartphone makers in 2016 has definitely been modularity. LG introduced the G5 with its swappable bottoms, Lenovo just launched the Moto Z alongside a range of function-enhancing snap covers, and Google announced plans to bring its Project Ara modular device to market. Each of these ventures runs counter to the established direction of consumer electronics toward greater convergence. I applaud the courage of each company to try something different, but just one look at Microsoft’s new Xbox One S — the latest example of what converged technology can produce — convinces me that modularity is the wrong path to follow.

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