Q: Could you tell us how it all started

A: You know, one day you receive an email an vous undestand it’s the chance of you life. An opportunity to create something that your ancestors would be proud of

Mailfrom: Boss

Mailto: frankiguess@formernissanemployees.com

Title: Let's forget the noodle accident. I want you to design a car

Date: 31 Oct

Body: Hey Frank,


Listen, let's forget the worm prank.

I am looking for someone to design me a car.

I am sure there is no one in the world to help me with this. I've asked literally everyone. 

It has to be something special and classic. Like futuristic, you know, for every family and maybe in the future for dogs too. Top notch with all the stuff. A car to be remembered like that Ford cars they use to catch the piglets and drive around the stadium. Or even the horse maybe. Man, they've used the horse for centuries, can you design something of that class?

Specs attached.

PS. Oh, yes, one detail. The deadline is the 1st Jan. I've already announced presentationo of a new concept


Happy halloween,
Boss

Specs:

- Special

- Classic

- Futuristic

- For everyone

- Top notch

- All the stuff

- Remembered for centuries

- As good as horse but better

- \*Maybe for dogs in the future

I immediately understand this is it. I’ve always wanted to create great. A work of art, something eternal and perfect

Mailto: Boss

Date: 31 Oct

Title: I'm on it

Hi Boss,

I forgive you for not having sense of humour

I know exactly what you need. Expect the concept by Friday


Sincerely boo,
Dominique

So I started poundering. It took me months of scrapped designs. But after all I’ve came to the perfect shape

Sketch of a circle on paper

Can you imagine how stylish it would be? Nissan Sphere. That was a statement: “Cars is a Nissan Sphere”. Other manufacturers would not even come close to the idea because of the patents

That is a true design dictated by nature. I’m not the un to be inspired by it. Here’s a less perfect sphere in Chicago. IMG . Or another animalistic view.

I immediatly got contact by an engineering departament with feedback. You know, engineering is a tres conservative field. They appeared not ready for that

Mailfrom: theseniorengineer@engineers.nissan.com

Mailto: iguesshisnameisfrank@formerformeremployees.nissan.com

Date: 23 Dec

Title: You kidding me?

Dude, I understand you are in trouble with this new secret project. But for everyone's sake, could you at least use the "wheels pattern" for your 'car'?


Have a merry Christmas,
Engineer dude

As a professional I have managed to integrate the feedback into the nouveau concept

Circle with two smaller circles

The new design was emothinal, inspirational. I would say, life-changing.

Mailfrom: Boss

Mailto: iguesshisnameisfrank@formerformeremployees.nissan.com

Date: 24 Dec

Title: get to work!

Hey Frank,


I've just received a letter from our senior engineer, he freaked out and left the company.

Could you be more attentive to like sanity, you know.

The deadline is approaching but we cannot just look this far into the future.


Have a productive Christmas,
Boss

So like that engineer I started from scratch.

Part of drawing circles on paper

I took inspiration from art when I suddently noticed something

Kristoffer Trolle image of Yoyoi Kusama Cube https://www.flickr.com/photos/kristoffer-trolle/23282107261

And after a while it came to me

Circles in the square

It took me several iterations when I cane to this.

Wireframe cube

This was a revolution. The one that liberated France once and then moved to other cities and libirated them too. That was a bon revolution

I started to work my way to the details, when i finally got to the final concept

** Image of square**

It was immediately shipped to the customer and the result was immediate and astounding

mailfrom: boss secretary

title: what do I do?

body: 
Hi Franc,

What happened? The boss just laid bricks when received your mail. He is now sitting under the table and crying.


---
Respect and regards,
Boss's secretary

Sent from an iPhone, filth.

It was a sign. I could not believe in such an immediate succes. So I proceed

mailto: Boss
title: So what's next?
body:
    Hi Boss,

so what do we do now? We still have a couple days before the presentation. Do you have any feedback?


Love,
Dominique

I was given a cart-blanche. I was trusted and belived in. As Russie say ‘pas le Boss’

mailfrom: Boss
title: I have you
body:
    Do whatever you want. I just don't care. We're doomed.
    Go to the engineering departament. I don't want to be the only one fired

Boss

Then there was another round with the engineering team. He said “so where do we fit the engine, genius”?

And I said “haha, joke’s on you. You are an engineer. Je suis is a designer”

Of course he did not get the joke so we tried to work together on the problem. And then the next revelation came:

**Cut a part from the square **

The disign recived a very modern look.

It lost a bit of it’s clasy feel. But we are not building a car for a Colliseum or Louvre or the Moon.

These are things of the past. And we are moving the industrie forward.

I mean, you can imagine a Roman pillar, right?

**Image of pillar **

But can you imagine a Roman pillar on wheels?

Image of exactly that

This is not a car. This is a joke..

And this is the Future

Concept drawing of square-cut square

Q: Thank you for an inspiring story. Could you describe the ideas behind.. you know.. the back window?..

A: Oh, si. I mean oui. Le fenetre passe. One day an engineer asked moi: what do we do with the windows?

I was buys solving conceptual problemes so I asked him to take this nonexisting problem dans his own hands.

But he was persistent and kept being oh so annoying

mailto: Engineer
title: Re:11 the windows
    Yes

> on xxx you wrote:
>    Do I make it curved or with pillar?

Q: Do you have anything to tell to our viewers

A: Une have to believe in homme’self. If you do what you feel like you will be remembered. Remembered like the creator of the hedgehog. Or Leonardo, Master Splinter, Jean Jelizee, Jack Russel or Moulin Rouge. The true geniuses of the time.

Only then you will creation the shef douevre like Le Cube. A true German Design