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College Exhibition: Lawrence Technological University 2013
Fourth, third and second year Transportation Design students from the Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Detroit, Michigan have showcased their 2013 projects, forming the sixth annual degree show at the US college. The latest talent from the university developed some innovative and interesting designs, accompanied by high-quality sketches and conception ...
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Contest: 'Design the Italian Way'
Winners of Fiat's "Design the Italian Way" competition were announced on September 20, 2007 at the new Fiat Group Automobiles' Style Centre headquarters, Officina 83, in Turin, Italy. Participants in this competition - launched on November 30, 2006 - came from eight of the world's leading design schools: Turin's European ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Suzuki GSX-R/4 (2001)
Christmas is over. You ate kilos of chocolate, you opened your socks and your fancy gadgets, but let's be honest, deep inside you miss the times toys waited for you under the tree. But who said toys were only for kids? Suzuki certainly didn't think so back in 2001.
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Be our 10,000th Facebook fan and win a six-month subscription!
With our Facebook page's 'Like' count continuing to rise, we're rapidly approaching the magic 10,000 mark. To celebrate we're offering a free six-month subscription to Car Design News to our 10,000th fan.
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Ssangyong relaunches brand with Giugiaro-designed Korando
Korean brand Ssangyong is back from the dead. After looking odds-on favorite to become another automotive casualty of the global recession after Chinese owner SAIC put it into receivership in early 2009, the 4x4 specialist has found a new owner in 2010 - signing a memorandum of understanding with Indian ...
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Jaguar E-Type Celebrates 50th Anniversary
The Jaguar E-Type turned 50 this year and the marque is honoring its most iconic production car with a host of events around the world.
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Design Development: Lotus Evora
Billed as a competitor to the Porsche 911, the Evora is an important car for Lotus. It's also significant as the last all-new Lotus design was the 1995 Elise designed under then head of design Julian Thompson. Before it, the last all-new car was the Esprit of 1975, designed by ...
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Interview: Ikuo Maeda, Global Head of Design, Mazda
What would you say are some of your career highlights?"I have experience in California and also in Ford's Detroit design studios. The first half of my career was focused around advanced design and I drew much experience there. There wasn't a particular program that I was assigned to, but it ...
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Interview: Ikuo Maeda, Global Head of Design, Mazda
Ikuo Maeda, like his father before him, has had a life-long design career at Mazda. When he graduated from Kyoto Technical University with a degree in Industrial Design Meada took a job at Mazda and never looked back, eventually following in his father's footsteps to become Chief Designer.
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First Sight: Skoda Octavia
The new Skoda Octavia was unveiled earlier this week in the Czech brand's museum at its home in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. Car Design News was in attendance to check out the third generation of what the company calls ‘the heart of Skoda'.
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Design Development: Chrysler Minivans
The final design also had to manage pedestrian impact by raising the hood, to improve aerodynamics, and to achieve world-class quality with tighter gaps between body panels and components. But the toughest challenge was to make an emotional vehicle out of this minivan to rub out the 'soccer mom' image. ...
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Design Development: Chrysler Minivans
For the fifth-generation of the Dodge Grand Caravan - and its ritzy stablemate the Chrysler Town & Country - Chrysler is returning to their utilitarian origins, adding some well thought-out refinements on the way. In the U.S., this vehicle category suffers from such a stigma that designers felt they needed ...
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Audi to hold Urban Future Summit
Aiming to further the thinking initiated at the inaugural Urban Future Awards last year, 2011 will see Audi hold the Urban Future Summit on September 12 in Frankfurt, just prior to the start of the 64th international motor show.
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Fiat partners with Politecnico di Milano for new Masters course
Fiat Group Automobiles and the Politecnico di Milano Industrial Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion Department (INDACO) will join efforts in managing a Master in Transportation & Automobile Design course. The first classes are set to begin in October 2008.
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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche celebrates 75th Birthday
One of the most prolific names and designers within the Porsche franchise is celebrating his 75th birthday this week. In honor of this event, CDN brings you a brief summary of his work and life so far.
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Michelin Challenge Design 2009 preview
Michelin is continuing to profile the work of some of the leading contenders for its annual Michelin Challenge Design competition, which asks the design community to come up with proposals for "America's Next Iconic Vehicle". All 11 of the scale models and 24 two-dimensional drawings in the running will be ...
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CCS-AISI Project 2008
The College for Creative Studies (CCS) recently celebrated 20 years of partnership with the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Illustrating that environmental responsibility needn't come at the expense of design, power or desire, three students created their individual vision of a "Green Steel" concept car, resulting in the ...
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Who's Where: Dagoberto Tribia promoted to Director of Interior Design at GM Brazil Design
Dagoberto Tribia was promoted to Director of Interior Design at GM do Brasil Design on January 1, 2011.
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Moscow Motor Show 2006 Trends and Overview
The Moscow Motor show, which opened last week, is increasingly becoming one of the more important motor shows as the Russian car market, now worth one and a half million car sales per year, grows at the rate of around 50% every five years and the rate of sales increase ...
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First Sight: Peugeot 1007
The small car 'B' segment accounts for more than 35% of the European market and is expected to grow by 17% over the next ten years. Accompanying this growth is a trend towards unique products to meet the needs of individual customers. This trend is set to intensify with the ...