Hope you are having a great week!
I’m searching for the world's greatest collectibles, and exploring the journey of legendary creators and icons.
Here’s a few things I’ve learned over the last few days -
“How can I use these regulations to try something that hasn’t been done before?”
“It all began with Dad. When I stand at my drawing board inspired by a love of cars and constant ongoing desire to improve them. Not just their speed and performance, but ultimately the way in which they move through the world, the impact they have, aesthetic, environmental, sporting enjoyment. It all comes back to him, his workshop and his eccentric love of tinkering with all things mechanical, that and mom’s love of art and painting.”
- Adrian Newey, from his autobiography published in 2017, ‘How to Build a Car’
“To make a racing car accelerate and achieve a higher top speed, you need more power, less weight and less aerodynamic drag. And if that sounds like a simple set of goals, it probably would be, if not for the troublesome mechanics of cornering. This is where downforce comes in…”
- Adrian Newey, ‘How to Build a Car’
You won’t believe the amazing history of the 1804 silver dollar - The King of American Coins.
Not only is the incredible coin super rare and valuable, but it took the greatest coin collectors in the world over 100 years to solve the mystery of the legendary 1804 silver dollar!
Turns out, we would have never solved the mystery if it wasn’t for these great coin collectors of the 1800s and 1900s, writing amazing letters back and forth, and publishing articles as true ambassadors of their hobby… Stickney, Elder, Bowers, the list goes on and on…
“Work is the outcome of a thousand apparently accidental events that are permitted or not permitted to enter the final work.
Seen in this way, creation is only a process and the idea has no significance beyond its ability to set the process in motion.”
- Michael Crichton, on Jasper Johns
“Gandini insisted that his start and end point on the drawing board
was beauty,
which meant breaking the golden rule of industrial design that form follows function.
Gandini liked to say, form follows emotion and not other things.”
- ‘The Times’ on Marcello Gandini, creator of the Lamborghini Countach
I’m searching for the world's greatest collectibles, and exploring the journey of history's greatest creators.
My search for the full story leads me to the oldest, most obscure sources… rare books, forgotten interviews, and even hand-written letters.
The incredible stories about the amazing people who were driven to create. Against all the odds - to leave their mark.
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