In June, Local Motors, the first open source car company to reach production, will officially release the Rally Fighter, a $50,000 off-road (but street-legal) racer.
The design—described by Wired as 
a “cross between a Baja racer and a P-51 Mustang fighter plane”— was created by Sangho Kim, a graphic artist and Art Center student. The design was crowdsourced, as was the selection of mostly off-the-shelf components, and the final assembly will be done by the customers themselves in local assembly centers as part of a “build experience.”
Per Wired: “As the community coalesced around his Rally Fighter, members competed to develop secondary parts, from the side vents to the light bar. Some were designers, some engineers, and others just car hobbyists. But what they had in common was a refusal to design just another car, compromised by mass-market needs and convention. They wanted to make something original — a fantasy car come to life.”
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We’ve always known it, but now it’s official: Art Center’s 
USC professor Adlai Wertman, the event will feature Mariana Amatullo, vice president and director of Designmatters; Jonathan Greenblatt, social entrepreneur and founder of All for Good and Ethos Water; and Rhys Newman, head of design strategic projects at Nokia Design and former Art Center faculty member.
has launched a global call to designers from all disciplines to unite in an open dialogue with international relief organizations to assess potential design-effective rehabilitation projects.
Perhaps this is why museum guards say not to get too close to the work: A significant 
Our own Stephen Nowlin, director and curator of the 
Spring Term has kicked off and despite heavy rains, both campuses are buzzing with students, faculty and staff. Two of the many classes holding their first meetings today: Graduate Media Design studios 
itects Johnston Marklee, opens today at the 
After noticing a lack of interaction between different term students in her department,