Learning Curves

After a long two years, myself and Klara have at long last finally managed to complete our design sketching book, Learning Curves. :) The last months just before the summer holidays were pretty intense, with many working nights lasting well in to the early hours. So far everyone who has seen the book has been impressed, which has of course been good to hear, and is something that we certainly have to thank our contributors for! The work they offered us for the project is a pretty inspiring collection, so thank you all.

Of course, i also want to thank everyone who put up with my strange working hours, unsociable last 6 months and general stress level! I took a long summer vacation and it was a perfect way to round off the project. Of course, now comes the long task of publicising and selling the book. So, on that note, please pop along to the website (www.designsketching.com ) and have a look, and you can also join our facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/DesignSketchbookLearningCurves ) as well. Dont forgot to buy a copy as well! :)

V8 Event

Old news now, but this one is for you Paul. Was down in Italy over the summer for the launch of the new Scania V8 range. Two lovely weeks in the brilliant sunshine showing off the most powerful production truck in the world. Not only did i spend two weeks driving those, i also got to play around in the cream of the Audi range, including the V10 R8 (you will be pleased to note paul that it broke the Audi trend of having a heavy flywheel!)

New Motor

Finally got round to ordering my new runaround. Delivery time around christmas (why sooooo long). Its coming with 6speed manual, touch screen sterio, LED taillamps, Bi Xenon Headlamps, window tints and a James Bond rear camera. Pity it will be arriving in the middle of winter on a set of cheep winter tyres! (has a pretty well balanced flywheel though)

Where have I gone?

Damn, nearly 6 months without an update? Whats happening? Well, let me look some stuff up and see what i can get online this week.

Had a great week showing off the new Scania R series. I was very happy to be given charge of this 25.25 meter long 60 ton Topline for the week...its a thing of beauty to drive. As you can see the above video of me doing a quick drive past (i guess you just have to trust its me driving)!!

Nothing to say

I leave the whole thing to your imagination!

Silly boats

Ok, its a bit out of date now, but i see i forgot to add my boating pictures to the blog. A great weekend in Stockholm it was... and the boating was great, until of course i crashed the boat. Oh well! It was not my fault honest! Anyway, i really look forward to next summer as it would be great hire a boat for a long weekend...

Bus driving

Come on Ingrid... when are we going to drag you up to drive one of these things? You do design them after all!!

I need one of these (or all of them!)

Just a normal day in the Scania carpark! Mmmmmmm, matt black.

Oh NO!

How can I ever live this down. My own father... driving a DAF"t". Is there no justice in this world. And not only that... its nothing more than a transit van. I work my ass off to design a fantastic Volvo... which is now availale in 700BHP flavours, and am currently striving to help Scania top anything Volvo can do... yet no... he drives a toy truck?

It CAN happen...even to me

Found these old pictures of my first ever (and so far only) crash. All my fault sorry to say, and i did get booked for it. Too fast in the wet, and hit a van coming in the opposite direction (you can see it on the pavement in the background). Nobody hurt...thank goodness....except pride. I remember thinking just before the impact, damn it...now i cant say ever again that i have never had an accident.

Beetle by Beasley

Some very nice pictures of my lovely car (which may have to go soon)... :(

What an idiot.

What a disaster. Only one season old, and they are horribly coroded already. Why, oh why didnt i wash and dry them before putting them into storage for the winter. Any suggestions on how to repair them are of course welcome.

I CAN parallel park a truck!

So, Magnus, this one is for you. Its not super tight...but hey, i dont drive these things every day you know!

Scania V8

Managed to borrow a Scania V8 for the weekend (range and split manual) to keep my hand in on the driving. Fully loaded, it gave me a chance to get a bit more familiar with a manual, and particularly Scania manual gearbox. Also took the time to have another practice at reversing. It was all good fun!

Cool

Borrowed a very fast car the other day. Managed to take this snap on a quiet stretch of road!

Or like this. Spot the differences!

New DesignerTechniques

It feels like time for a overhaul of DesignerTechniques. Been working on some new layout looks, with a wider, and page centred format. Think its looking good. New Logo too. Comments?

Seriously, is it me who is stupid...or facebook?

Ok, really. I run this Blog just fine, although the picture formatting can be a bit wierd, and of course I manage to write, publish and maintain DesignerTechniques.com .....all by myself. Today however I have lost an entire day trying to figure out how to use Facebooks company "Page" service to create something for DesignerTechniques. A whole day, and still I cant figure it out. Its full of links that take you down blind alleys for gods sake. You then have to re-enter from the start. I have not seen a website with such poor navigation in years!!? Certainly not one that popular. Really, its crap. In the last two days, I have even managed to arrange Google search, and Google ads onto DesignerTechniques. Peice of cake, and that involved fiddling with HTML for chr*st sake? I AM MAD. No really, i am!

This ones for you paul

I find myself missing Boris. Things are not the same without him. Even if you may end up dead at the end of the evening, it was always worth it.