Automotive design studios envisioned what cars will look like 50 years from now for the most recent Los Angeles auto show “Robocar 2057.” If you saw Transformers this summer, you’ll see how much the designers were inspired by the blockbuster. If you’re in the LA area, the designs are on display until Nov. 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Academy industrial design school Director Tom Matano was one of the judges of the innovative competition.

To find out what the designers envisioned, read the full-length New York Times article.

Academy of Art University illustration school alum Derek Kirk Kim is featured in an article about up-and-coming Asian graphic novelists. His first collection, Same Difference and Other Stories, won the comic trifecta: the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards and was also named of the Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2003. His first full-length novel, Good as Lily, is a fantasy with magical-realism elements. Kim calls it his “’80s movies homage.” Kim is lauded in the article as the “future of Asian American literature today.”

To read this full article, please visit SFGate
Check out Derek’s comics at lowbright.com