my favorite Industrial Designer

I like cars a lot so i like to talk about car designers. One of my favorite car designers is Giovani Batista farina, known as Pininfarina, an Italian designer who create masterpieces like the Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spider Corsa, in 1932 and the well known Ferrari Testarossa in 1984. This designer created a company with his son Sergio and grandson Andrea and the company is successful. It has been employed by many automobile manufacturers like Ferrari, Maserati, Cadillac, Peugeot, Jaguar, Volvo, Alfa Romeo, MG, etc.
Actually the company has 3,562 employees working for them. This company is known all around the world and it has a very good reputation.
Other car designer is Giorgetto Giugiaro, another italian designer. We can see some of his designs every day in Santiago, cars like Daewoo Leganza, Fiat Punto, Fiat Uno, Seat Toledo, etc. He has masterpieces like Pininfarina as well. One of my favorite is the Maserati 4200 coupé, a car we don’t see usually but when you see it, you can understand that every single piece of the car is designed to give the car some special identity. It is a gorgeous car.
I want to design cars but it is very difficult to work for a car company, mostly if you aren’t from Europe or Asia.

learning english with BBC

It’s an interesting web site; it has a part to learn English reading and listening different stories. I saw a kind of serie, a romantic one, its name is “Fred and Betty: is this the end?” it is about a couple, Fred and Betty, and they have some kind of relashionship (don’t know if they are married or whatever).
In the story, they had a problem because it seems to be that he was cheating on her, there were eleven chapters of this serie but we couldn’t know the end of the story because isn’t in the website, not yet. Every they, the site add a new chapter, so you can visit the website every single day and practice English, (listening the pronunciation) and there is a part with the vocabulary of the story so you can practice your vocabulary as well. I think that it is a good idea to help people who want to learn English (like us) or practice it, for free!

Well i really haven’t a favorite web site, or if i have it, i don’t remember the link but there are some good websites i can recommend you to visit, some funny ones like http://www.locoarts.com/ this one is about some funny argentine cartoons, or http://www.teagames.com/ in this site you can find lots of flash games if you are little bored.
There was a web site i used to visit a lot, http://www.pandora.com/ because you could listen music and save different music stations but now you have to pay for it so i didn’t visit it again, but instead of that i use http://www.futuro.cl/, it is a rock radio website and you can listen radio on-line, so some times if am not at home and i have work to do, (for example if i am at university) i listen that radio. i think that the last site i mentioned, is the one i usually visit, but my life wouldn’t change drastically without it, because I can listen this rock music on the radio.

Victorycity is a point of view to solve the problem that humankind is having, the overpopulation.
Lots of people want to live in cities, and in countries like Japan, they haven’t enough room to live, so what can we do to solve that? We live in cities, because there we find everything we need every comfort we want but at the same time we interact with people, we have relationships and we have “freedom” to do what we want to do.

The project of victory city, in theory, was so rigid and people have to live like machines, eat in the same place, at the same time, work and live in the same building, use the lift with 50 persons at the same time, for me it looks like a flock of animals isn’t it.

If somebody wants to solve this problem, the team of engineers, architects, industrial designers, etc, when they design this city, they must think of the behavior of the people who will live there, and respect the way of living that people have, otherwise, it won’t work. In this case, there isn’t enough room to let the people live like if they where in a normal city, so maybe the idea is good but the design isn’t that good, for example actually there is a project in Japan to build a city inside a pyramidal structure (the name of the project is pyramid of Tokyo) and the idea is similar but the design is an amazing structure, 2 kilometers high and (to be continued...)