Book Review: fryewerk 2.0: Concept Vehicle Illustrations by John A. Frye

The master at vehicle design

John A. Frye is a concept designer who has been designing vehicles for more than 25 years. Clients he has worked for includes Hasbro, Teague, Activision, Boeing and John Deere.

fryewerk 2.0 is a 192-page paperback that collects his personal vehicle designs. This is incredibly impressive considering there's no client work included and these personal works are just what he does as creative outlet. By the way, there's no fryewerk 1.0.

These are the chapters in the book:

• Cars
• Spaceships and flying craft
• Autonomous racing
• Trucks and big rigs
• Other extraordinary vehicles

The pages are filled with beautiful hand-drawn art, either coloured or sketches. There are hundreds of designs and each one comes with commentary on the design and thought process. There's a lot of insight from the book for those who want to learn more about vehicle design, and there are some tutorials too.

What I like most about the art besides they look awesome is some of the designs are used as packaging art for his own model-kit line Spruemeister. Goes without saying that he's very much inspired by those model-kit racing cars.

The back of the book has a 10-page interview with him and Scott Robertson. They talk about client vs personal work, storytelling, inspiration and motivation, fan art, problem solving with design, sketching and the future of design. There's a lot to read.

This is a fantastic artbook for vehicle or concept designers.

To see more art from John A. Frye, visit
https://www.fryewerk.com
https://www.instagram.com/fryewerk

Here are direct links to the book:
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