EXPLORER - Futuristic Vehicles for Uncharted Lands is out now!
As a hard- and softcover version, 15 stunning vehicles, 10x10 inches on 160 pages! Get it at www.designstudiopress.com , Amazon or tons of other book stores world wide !
The year is 2065. The end of Earth and all its habitants is imminent. Using the world’s greatest technologies, a new generation of highly advanced, autonomous robotic vehicles is developed to explore new lands for human colonization.Inspired by legendary futurists such as Syd Mead (Blade Runner), German industrial designer and concept artist Christian Grajewski used his expert knowledge of automotive design and his fascination with animal anatomy to create fifteen stunning, interplanetary vehicles. Each varies in size and technological capabilities, yet they are unified by one overarching goal: to preserve the human race. From the stealth rotorcraft Hornet to the massive space transporter Orca, the designs of Explorer were fueled by Grajewski’s deep desire to launch vehicles beyond Earth’s solar system. He drew from his professional experience working on the design team at Volkswagen Design Center Potsdam, where he developed concepts for such carmakers as Lamborghini, Audi, and Bentley. Explorer compiles Grajewski’s early sketches, wondrous renderings, and design reflections that together make a case for historic multinational cooperation and the incredible innovations such collaborations can achieve.
I wanna say thank you to some very special people whom I greatly admire for what they do and that they took their time to go through my book in advance.
Tim Kentley Klay, thank you so much for taking the time to write your super nice foreword!
Daniel Simon, Harald Belker, Nick Pugh, Scott Robertson and Stefan Sielaff, thank you so much for taking the time to write your very kind endorsements!
It means A lot to me, that all of you seemed to have really enjoyed EXPLORER.
Again, big big thanks to everyone at Design Studio Press for this opportunity, your trust, help and the freedom you gave me to realise this dream!
Big Thanks!
Autodesk / Special thank you for the kind support and supplying me with Autodesk Autostudio / Alias Surface, used in the development of modeling 3D content for my book.
Pixologic / Jaime Labelle, thank you so much for all your kind feedback, the nice little chats, and supporting me with ZBrush in the first years, so I could learn the program and breathe life into my creatures and characters!
Luxion / Josh Mings, thank you very much for your kind replies and supporting me with KeyShot at the beginning of my journey as I learned how to render and make my creations a reality!
Deon / Tomas Sommer, thank you very much for your extremely fast replies, even on the weekend and supporting me with the Deon.de Visual Collaboration Platform, which was a great help to me!
Cheers,
Christian