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Anisio Campos strikes Design as Art : "The S Curve"

From the the big sidewalk of Ipanema, the forms of the fatal woman returns
I adore Rio de Janeiro, I love São Paulo. I am "Rio-Sampa" (Sampa is a nickname for São Paulo City). I find myself fully, within this bilateral-axis of ingredients, responsible for this spicy conviviality, where it becomes impossible to live "joking about one another". Further and further, "Cariocas" (people born in Rio) and "Paulistas" (people born in São Paulo) exhibit a graceful loving linkage, capable of creating "a state-dependence" for each other. Natives of São Paulo adore Carioca beaches, infused with the plentifullness of "beautiful women bodies", in spontaneous presence, placing them extremely so, and always well in photography. The Carioca, adores the exuberant São Paulo cooking, in quality and options, besides the sophisticated services and characteristics of a city that is located away from the coast. When I walk in the side walks enjoying the Wonderful City (as Rio de Janeiro is called), pretty for its nature ˆ my daughter Raquel was born in Rio - I adore walking the Urca and Arpoador (beaches), observing all the "S Curves": The sidewalk of Ipanema and Copacabana, a hand-made mosaic of little portuguese black and white stones These interesting and miraculous curves of the Carioca women, that appear - suddenly and without informing - with their light fabrics, in small, very small swimming clothes, delineated inside gracious small and short bikini bottoms, announcing the launching of a new summer season, which covers and accents each delicate detail of their bodies, promoting the curve's return. It is easy not to forget that "Raio-X images" are always present in the Rio atmosphere. I remember a phrase from the venerable Tom Jobim (Girl of Ipanema song), when someone asked him what he would prefer, to live in Rio or in New York and he launched: to live in New York is wonderful, but it is a shit... and to live in Rio is shit, but it is wonderful... I feel this when I come to Rio, where I absorb this atmosphere full of meanings, of sensual curves, the hinds, the chests... there are so many curves... "Rio offers a voluptuous way of life"... This is present even in the bars, where the Cariocas sit outside, on the sidewalk, over beer barrels or in small banks, nicknamed affectionately "hinds out". This vigorous mixture seduced me into pleasurably applying this life style - as we have done in the 80's ˆ in the design of our cars - the 828 and 012 ˆ Which I am developing at Obvio ! for the Zap! of California - a state like Rio de Janeiro, but with much more money... As the fashion comes and goes, with little emphasis toward this subject, the better form of women bodies will always be what exists in the moment. This was always so during the last century: in 1969, the theory "of erogenous areas", had already been divulged, in which the premise is that the popular culture fixes in a particular part of the body, and after a certain period of time, unsatisfied, it moves onto another body part. I call this phenomenon, "The S Curve", so obvious as the sculptural body of a sexy mulata (Afro-Brazilian women) which I painted on a large, silk cloth, which lights up at night when the black light is turned on, Flying over my room, accompanying me into happy, sensorial strolls into infinity and pleasure. Applauses to Rio, charge my sensorial feelings. I am inspired by the feminine figure, their sensuality is applied in the cars that I love to design and produce. The silky curves of the female forms are the fuel of my art, especially when I want to play with light and shades... What inspires one? It has nothing to do with what turns one on, even though this can happen. My question is toward what inspires one to think, to create and to live... and I hope that my art can also inspire you, because our Obvio! Design, is all about this mix... *Translation of this original Brasilian Portuguese text performed by Tatiana Mindlin.*

Anisio Campos & Obvio ! Design : an sculptural process of art for cars creation


The Obvio !´s car design steps:		Sketch rendering:
•Briefing over product design/niche market •Sculptural design and development procedures in 1:4 scale •Knowledge-based Engineering and Consulting Services packaging •Sculptural process of design and construction to prototypes 1:1 scale •Design and construction of prototypes and forms •Digital mockup and virtual prototyping •Final model construction for crash-tests •Construction of pre-production car and Tools •Planning, supervision and quality control of “by demand” serial production		The initial phase of our creation. Anisio and Staff makes free sketches or "roughs", taking account of the initial schedule of specifications. This design is a sketch rendering so that the original idea is given lasting form. It requires a certain execution time.

The Obvio ! – design process of cars creation:		CAD model
1/4 sculpture design model. After the pre-design, Anisio and staff goes on to make a 1:4 model in polyurethane. This materials allows him to judge the volumes – begining, middle and end of the car - and style, and then to develop it before the full-size model stage.		The 1/4th scale model is 3D scaned for a reverse engineering, using CAD systems at INT – National Institute of Technology in Rio de Janeiro. In a team with Anisio and staff plus the CAD designers, the volumes and styles are reworked, taking account of the technical constraints. The model is then milled or hand-shaped in full size scale.

Sculpture full size model: a) Working model This is the most important stage, in which Anisio and our staff developed the full size sculpture and make all design corrections, seeing their initial ideas in life-size form. b) “Show-Car” prototypes This is a running model with a proprietary chassis. This model is molded in a fiberglass bodyshell and installed on the proprietary chassis with a perfect finishings of exterior / interior for consumers opinions and to normally run in the streets, to see visual impacts over people.