I think Martins got it here,its a photoshopped mess designed by a comittee at Emap. It may have been done slickly but its been done with no imagination by journalists who cant imagine anything beyond what they're given free. I see this crap all the time in my work, lots of geeks can use a program like photoshop,it doesn't make them designers or artists though. Ducati isnt stupid and re releasing a sort of 916 will be not only an admission of defeat for its design department but will also shackle it to that design for the rest of the firms life. I hope they surprise us with something even more radical than the 999 was over the 916, and not just a red fireblade like the one in the paper. |