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Interior Motives magazine reboots
This evening saw the launch of Car Design News' all-new specialist interior design publication Interior Motives magazine. Senior designers gathered together at Le Sip nightclub in Geneva for the annual Auto Design Night were among the first people in the world to get a look at the Spring 2009 ...
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CDN joins forces with Interior Motives
Car Design News is pleased to announce today that it is joining forces with Interior Motives, the world's leading automotive design print media.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Fiat Scia (1993)
Although based on the Punto, the Fiat Scia looked so much more with its boat-like body shape and enticing stature
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Who's Where: Ken Ma joins Geely Automobile as Design Director
Ken Ma (Ma Zheng Kun) has joined Geely Automobile as Design Director. His role will be to assist the work of Geely Group Senior Vice Design President, Peter Horbury, in enhancing the Geely brand's design capacity.
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Walter de'Silva awarded medal for special services to Bavaria
Walter de'Silva has been awarded a medal for special services to the Free State of Bavaria.
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Design Review: Nissan Land Glider concept
In profile, the Land Glider is most car-like with a typical 1/3 DLO to bodyside ratio and two conventional side opening doors - it is this feature which is perhaps the biggest compromise. An airplane-style lift up canopy was considered but dismissed as too difficult to access compared to a ...
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Design Review: Nissan Land Glider concept
"Imagine the sensation of flying along the ground, steering and leaning from left to right in near silence, using little energy like gliding or skiing," the Land Glider's Associate Chief Designer, Takahama Shu, describes. "If this sensation is portrayed in the design then we have been successful."
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Design Development: Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6
Although starting within Bentley's advanced design department in Coventry, UK, VW Group's advanced design team was also involved in the concept's development. Head of interior design, Brett Boydell, explains: "We started about 18 months ago with the initial concept and ideation work in collaboration with the Potsdam design studio, and ...
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College Exhibition: CCS - American Iron and Steel Institute project 2006
Students from Detroit's College for Creative Studies and University of Michigan have unveiled the results of the 18th annual American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) summer automotive design internship. Three engineering students joined three transportation design students to produce concept vehicles that targeted either Generation X, Baby Boomers and the ...
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Who's Where: John Puskar and Liz Wetzel appointed to new roles at GM Design
As part of an ongoing strategy at General Motors, this past month has seen a series of moves taking place within the company's design organization in Europe and the US. Two of the key changes have been the appointment of John Puskar to the role of Director of Cross-Brand Strategy, ...
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College Exhibition: Coventry University MA Degree Show 2011
Bei LiTriad A three-seat urban vehicle that aims to reduce driver distraction. Triad is a reaction to the ever increasing and complicated HMI systems in car interior design. As technologies develop and more are shoehorned into the car interior, driver distraction rises in relation. By implementing such systems as HUD, ...
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College Exhibition: Coventry University MA Degree Show 2011
Late last year, Car Design News made its annual pilgrimage to Coventry to check out the latest MA students to graduate from the renowned school. Hosted, once again, by the Transport Museum, the night was an opportunity for the 15 graduating students to display their individual work, as well as ...
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Design Essay: Cars and Architecture
Other references to building architecture in car design are harder to spot, though the 2005 Bertone Villa concept is an evidently named example. The design of the Villa made big play of egress, afforded by large doors swinging upwards to give occasion to entering and leaving the vehicle. The Renault ...
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Design Essay: Cars and Architecture
Shuffling past boxes to get to the car in the morning, we seldom give too much thought to the garage beyond tidying it. But without cars there would be no garages, and rarely do we stop to consider the broader affiliation cars have with their surrounding structures. In the 1920s, ...
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Stillen contest calls for production SEMA Scion FR-S bodykit designs
Tuning company Stillen has launched a competition to design a bodykit for the Scion FR-S to be put into production.
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Michelin Challenge Design announces 2007 theme and call for entries
At the 2006 North American International Auto Show, Michelin Challenge Design announced its theme for the 2007 Challenge. Michelin Challenge Design will ask entrants to explore the future of transportation design using safety as the focus and inspiration.
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Who's Where: Ken Ma resigns as Changan Design Vice President
Ken Ma has resigned as Vice President of Design for Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. after only a year. The former General Motors and SAIC designer's departure is a blow to the Chinese manufacturer's bid to design more distinctive cars to compete more effectively with foreign rivals in China and abroad.
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
Manske showed Car Design News around the Joyster at Paris and explained how he had introduced these new Skoda design elements yet had also built upon the design vocabulary established by Ingenlath. Manske's previous position was at Volkswagen where he was responsible for the Iroc - which also debuted at ...
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
One of the big challenges most car brands in the European market are trying to tackle is to appeal to the youngest profile of car buyer. Sell a new car to a twenty-something and you are likely to sell them a car in their thirties, forties and fifties as well. ...