Design and Architecture
Electric Cars, Black Panthers and Road Trips
Faraday Future, an electric car startup, looks to compete with Tesla. A graphic designer pays tribute to the Black Panthers. And a film about American road trips asks whether mobility is still a path to self-discovery.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenA new luxury electric car company has set up shop in the Southland. DnA finds about more about Faraday Future and its billionaire Chinese owner. Tyrone Drake received free breakfasts from the Black Panthers as a child in Oakland. Now he has done a typographic reinterpretation of the Panthers’ Ten-Point Program. Remember when road trips were fun? Film archivist Rick Prelinger takes Avishay Artsy on a drive down memory lane in No More Road Trips?, one of two movies he will screen in Los Angeles.
Photo: Faraday Future has released this rendering of its luxury all-electric car
