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Who's Where: Fabio Filippini appointed Design Director at Pininfarina
Famed Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina will soon welcome a new Design Director into the fold. Fabio Filippini, an Italian who has worked in France, Japan and Spain, will join the design house from April 1 2011, filling the roll previously vacated by Lowie Vermeersch late last year.
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Trends: Aero Wheels
The BBS rims used by Porsche's motorsport department during the late 1970s through to the mid-'80s often featured wheel covers which drew air into the wheel via a hidden turbine, helping to both cool the brakes and smooth out the airflow along the car's flanks. But the next generation of ...
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Trends: Aero Wheels
A quiet revolution is occurring right underneath our wheelarches. As 'efficiency' continues to be the buzzword of the automotive industry, so designers are seeking new ways - and rediscovering old ones - to convey the latest trend in their products.
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SPD offers scholarships for autumn program with Volkswagen Group
The Scuola Politecnica di Design is giving away eight scholarships for its autumn program in collaboration with the Volkswagen Group. The scholarships are aimed at students with degrees in transportation or car design, automotive engineering or equivalent degrees that show a high level of potential. The successful eight students will ...
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LA Auto Show 2011 - Trends and Overview
But the most conspicuous absence was that of the BMW 3 Series. Revealed by the Bavarian automaker just before the LA show, the omission further accentuates the increasing trend for automakers to launch vehicles outside the traditional auto show arena. While BMW showed the i3 and i8 concept cars in ...
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LA Auto Show 2011 - Trends and Overview
The LA auto show is historically not quite as vast and influential as some of the other more mainstream automotive exhibitions we attend, and there's not usually much to say about it. This year's LA auto show, however, has proved worthy of coverage for a few different reasons - namely ...
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Pforzheim University - Honda F1 'off track' project
Students of the Masters in Transportation Design course at Pforzheim University in Germany have been working on a rather special project: to create designs for ‘off-track' cars for Honda's F1 drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, incorporating Honda's environmentally conscious fuel-cell technology.
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Design Review: Ford Airstream Concept
The Airstream Concept is a futuristic crossover, supposedly capturing the sense of optimism and adventure conveyed in American aircraft, spacecraft and the streamlined shape of Airstream trailers. In some ways it follows a similar path to the Microbus concept that VW showed in 2001 but the styling and context here ...
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Design Development: Chery Faira
Chery is China's top selling domestic brand, with sales of over 300,000 last year. The company is best known for its small cars, and is already exporting cars to markets such as Russia and Southeast Asia, particularly the successful QQ model. But Chery is changing fast and has become one ...
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CDN-Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design competition winner announced
Vladislav Domanin is the overall winner of the CDN-Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design competition. The announcement was made by Friedhelm Engler, Director GME Advanced Design, during the second day press day of the Paris motor show on the Opel/Vauxhall stand.
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Design Review: Peugeot 1007
Throughout the history of the car it has been small cars that have most often demonstrated innovative design solutions, had attractive and characterful designs and gone on to become iconic products. Think Fiat Topolino, Volkswagen Beetle, Citroen 2CV, Fiat 500, Mini and even Renault 5, Fiat Panda, Peugeot 205, Ford ...
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Essay: Variable Degrees of Translucency
Car door panels and fenders are generally made of steel, sometimes of aluminum or plastic composites, and you can't see through them. Car windows, on the other hand, are made of a transparent sandwich of glass and plastic - and you can see through them. But in the future there ...
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Pavilion design glistens in Frankfurt
The architecture and scenic staging was the work of Berlin firm Blue Scope who has been working with BMW for over ten years. It is an evolution of the ‘driving-active' concept introduced by the same firm at the 2009 Frankfurt stand - an idea that was then new to motor ...
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Pavilion design glistens in Frankfurt
Any carmaker hoping to survive the 21st century is acutely aware of the power of pavilion design, and nowhere was this more evident than at the Frankfurt motor show last month.
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Analysis: When brands go off-piste (and sometimes crash)
From a design perspective, the process can offer a usefully different stimulus for the car designer involved too as Bentley's Daniele Ceccomori points out: "You don't have the same constraints of safety and homologation that goes into a car so you can experiment more.
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Analysis: When brands go off-piste (and sometimes crash)
Of late, there seems to be have been a major - and seemingly contagious - outbreak of car brands dabbling in non-car product design and collaborations. It's worth being wary of these matches, as there have been some mixed results.
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Bentley collaborates with Estede for solid gold sunglasses
Bentley and Estede have reported that sales of the first collection of limited edition solid gold sunglasses are through the roof.
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Who's Where: Tom Gale joins Cerberus advisory team
Now that New York-based Cerberus Capital Management has successfully acquired Chrysler from Daimler AG, it is busy appointing former Chrysler management to its advisory board. The latest addition to the panel is none other than Tom Gale, the highly acclaimed former DaimlerChrysler Chief of Design and Product Development.
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Saab's convertible turns 25
Another day, another anniversary. This time, it is the Saab convertible donning the proverbial party hat and counting the candles as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.