Indeed, it might seem shallow to care so much about how a car looks, but a good design aesthetic will cover a multitude of sins and boost sales beyond expectation.
But reinvention is possible and can be done through a revamped cover design, a style departure, or even a pseudonym.
Classic Halvorsen mischief was to come up with a cover design for one issue that parodied Business Week.
But Lycett crowns his design with a majestic domed cover whose pierced and ramified lily-pad repeat and overall shape closely reproduce the shape and ornament of a Turkish incense burner that had been illustrated in a French treatise on ceramic history published in 1873.
The following month it would switch to a bigger size, have a color cover design and carry many more illustrations inside.
The camera's intelligent design is constructed with a resin cover to protect the body side near the shutter and a resin lens ring to protect the lens.
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Also included in the lot are two 9 x 8 inch hand-colored production pieces of the cover design and a 14 x 16.5 inch photostat production drawing of a web used to create the end paper design for the book.
The concept of a keyboard cover appeared relatively soon into the design process, however, and it was mostly a matter of evolution as the all-important peripheral slimmed down and fleshed out.
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With ASiQ's proprietary PAN design, two access points can cover a narrow body aircraft such as a Boeing 737 or Airbus 320.
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Ports Design, our cover subject, shows a financial address in Hong Kong, where we list it, though the stores are run out of Xiamen and registration's in Bermuda.
Available in two colors, burgundy and black, the new notebook line features a sculptured design that blends materials and edges for a cohesive look and feel marked by the cover's distinctive branding stripe flanked by silver accents.
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O'Reilly's books all have something in common besides being printed on recycled paper, a readable design and animal pictures on the cover.
The new building, described by the council as being of a modern design with "a succession of cube-like shapes superimposed on each other", would cover a wider area - including some Metropolitan Open Land.
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BeoPlay H6 has anodized aluminium on the adjustable slider arm and cover plate to complete the design with a final vibrant touch.
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Delivered in spare and amusing prose, Design Is a Job is a book to be judged not by its cover, but by its spine.
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The jacket design has the subdued, sophisticated look of a literary novel, but features cover blurbs from thriller writers, including S.J.
The design was chosen by the Bradman Foundation in preference to one of him playing a cover drive.
By design, it should be impossible to miss when you try and attach a keyboard cover to the Surface.
Using the all-new LG WCP-300 Wireless Charging Pad, featuring a sleek, low-profile compact and portable design, users can charge Lucid2 by LG wirelessly when paired with a Wireless Charging Standard Battery Cover.
By adopting a sliding disk cover, the new PS3 continues with the characteristic sleek curved body design, which fits various places in the home and enables users to enjoy an array of entertainment content.
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In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process.
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The cover art was a freebie from a graphic designer Katsiris met through a friend, as was the design of premiercrumusic.com.
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