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CDN Contest 2008 - Starts today!
CDN is today announcing the design brief and the start of the Car Design News Contest 2008. Coinciding with the announcement, we are publishing an assessment process - specifically developed for the contest - and confirming our illustrious panel of car designer judges.
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Dassault Systèmes Design Challenge finalists announced
Anne Asensio and a team of expert judges have chosen the three finalists of the Dassault Systèmes Design Challenge 2012.
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Designer Interview: Ralph Gilles, Vice-President Design for Jeep/Truck Color & Trim and Specialty Vehicles, Chrysler
At the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, Car Design News met up with Ralph Gilles, Vice-President Design for Jeep/Truck Color and Trim Studios and Specialty Vehicles, to talk about the Jeep Trailhawk that was debuting at the show and his thoughts about his personal approach to car design.
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Video: Chip Foose talks about, renders his first VW Golf
In order to promote the launch of the Golf R in the US, Volkswagen has created a series of videos featuring fans of the iconic Euro hatch for a new iPad app. Here Chip Foose, founder of Foose Design and presenter of hit TV show, Overhaulin', tells the story of ...
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BMW DesignworksUSA to revamp Singapore Airlines
BMW DesignworksUSA has been set the task of developing Singapore Airlines' new First Class seats and cabin interior.
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Design Review: Land Rover Range Rover
First seen London, UKLength 4,990mmWidth 2,220mmHeight 1,835mmWheelbase 2,922mm
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RIP Anatole ‘Tony’ Lapine 1930-2012
Anatole ‘Tony’ Lapine, head of Style Porsche from 1969 to 1988, passed away at the age of 81 on 29 April at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany.
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Man-made Modern Luxury Materials in Cars
Luxury, within the context of a car interior, has been closely related to the use of wood and leather for over a century. These natural materials have a familiar organic, tactile quality that are intrinsically desirable attributes for most people and, in today's mass manufactured plastic world, they also assume ...
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2012 Autoweek Automotive Design Forum
"We don't design for today's customer, we design for tomorrow's customer," stated Peter Horbury, Senior Vice President of Geely. He spoke about the evolution of consumer research in the auto industry, explaining that research cannot be a reactionary process. Rather than relying on the needs and wants of consumers today, ...
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2012 Autoweek Automotive Design Forum
The 2012 - and 19th annual - Autoweek Automotive Design Forum on Thursday 12 January was held at the College for Creative Studies' A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education in Detroit. The event takes place each year during the North American International Auto Show, when designers from around the ...
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Design Review: Audi Roadjet concept
Audi's last concept car was the Shooting Brake which gives a close indication of what to expect for the next TT. The Roadjet is one step further removed from a production design, but none-the-less has a level of feasibility that suggests many of its ingredients will soon be gracing our ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Renault Argos (1994)
The 1994 Renault Argos concept is the little sports car based on the humble Twingo that continues to resonate in design terms.
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College Exhibition: IAAD - 'Italian Sportivity: The New Generation'
College Exhibition: IAAD - 'Italian Sportivity: The New Generation'
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Design Review: Ford Reflex concept
It is based on the European B-class platform used by the Fiesta and Mazda 2 as was last year's Synus concept that also consciously explored how a car might be both American and small.Unlike the Synus that was 'Built Tough' and had a conspicuous security van aesthetic, the Reflex is ...
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Who's Where: Chris Chapman appointed as Hyundai Chief Designer
Former BMW designer Chris Chapman has been appointed as Hyundai's Chief Designer, based at its design center in Irvine, California. He will be responsible for both advanced and production design for the Korean brand and replaces Phil Zak, who left the company early in 2011 to return to GM. He ...
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Design Review: GMC Graphyte
GMC graphyte presentation at the 2005 Detroit Auto Show.. Click for larger imagesConcept cars stretch across a broad spectrum; from the light weight cappuccino froth of show cars that titillate audiences with fanciful forms only to die forever at the close of a show, to the less glamorous concept ...
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50 Years of the BMW 'Neue Klasse'
In a year that sees the celebration of the ever-seductive Jaguar E-Type and the characterful Renault 4, it would be easy to overlook other cars also reaching their half-century, especially a mundane three-box saloon. However, the BMW 1500 isn't any less significant.
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College Exhibition: Umea Institute of Design Degree Show 2007
Mickael Strom (Sweden) showed a virtual-only final project that was built around the scenario if Koeningsegg would produce a product placement in a futuristic video race game. There is always a danger that these animation projects fall somewhere between gaming design and automotive design but here the two minutes video ...