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Trends: Instrument Binnacles
Have you noticed how instrument dials seem to be bursting out of their surroundings? Looking around the recent Paris Motor Show we noticed a number of cars that exhibit this trend. When opening the door, one sees side of the binnacle hood peeled away to reveal the edges of the ...
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Trends: Lighting on a different plane
The recent Honda Open Study concept develops the idea a stage further. Here, we see the exaggerated lamp bulge reincorporated as part of the painted body surface, to add a new twist to the idea.
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Trends: Lighting on a different plane
The corners of a car represent a difficult area for designers: a number of complex surfaces have to be resolved and the tendency over the last 20 years has been for cars to have more rounded plan shapes, with the headlamps occupying the entire front corner of the car. One ...
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Global Automotive Forum hosts designer roundtable meeting in Chengdu, China
The second Global Automotive Forum took place last week in the Jiaozhi international conference center in Chengdu, one of the most important economic and transportation centers in Western China. The two-day event was based around the theme of 'Crossing from Producing to Innovation Country' and was attended by more than ...
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Videos: Volkswagen's exterior and interior designers highlight the Up's design elements
We've enjoyed the design of Volkswagen's new Up since we first saw the vehicle in concept form at the 2007 Frankfurt motor show.
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Design Essay: Instrument Panel Architecture
Architecture 1 - Rolls-Royce Phantom. Click for larger imagesArchitecture 1 - Jaguar XK120Architecture 3 - 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia SpyderArchitecture 3 - 1976 Mercedes W123Architecture 4 - 1975 BMW 3 SeriesA hundred years ago, car instrumentation was spread out along the 'dashboard' - a name inherited from the wooden ...
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Fisker teases Project Nina
Fisker has revealed a teaser image of what it is expected to be its highly-anticipated Project Nina. The Anaheim, California-based company promises to give a glimpse of what the future holds for the company at the New York auto show next month.
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Imagining the Future: The Southern California Automotive Design Studio
Southern California is home to more automotive design studios than anywhere else in the world, and to commemorate that relationship and celebrate Art Center College of Design's 60th Anniversary, the Petersen Automotive Museum is putting on a new permanent exhibition among its rolling time capsules and automotive memorabilia from Hollywood.
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Design Review: Toyota FT-CH concept
The interior of the FT-CH was initially more difficult to evaluate as only one official photo of the cabin was available and the Detroit show car's doors were locked while the concept itself was perched up on a hard-to-access pedestal, limiting views inside. Interior designer Urwin did concede that this ...
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Design Review: Toyota FT-CH concept
Having succeeded in establishing the Prius as the undoubted ‘poster boy' of the righteous eco driver movement, Toyota is now embarking on reinforcing its green credentials by expanding its petrol/electric hybrid range to cater to other types of driver. Crucially, many of these new vehicles are set to define a ...
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College Exhibition: Elisava University BMW project
College Exhibition: Elisava University BMW project
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Coventry MA Automotive Design/Vehicle Interiors exhibition 2010
ORCAJeong-Hwa KimInspired by the film Avatar, Kim envisaged a future in which wheelchair users can walk and run freely. The Orca is designed to create as smooth a transition as possible between wheelchair and vehicle, with low-access ramps fore and aft, a 'kneeling' body and an interface which uses the ...
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Coventry MA Automotive Design/Vehicle Interiors exhibition 2010
As the winter takes grip on the northern hemisphere, CDN travel to Coventry, the birthplace of the British car industry - and many a car designer - to catch up with this year's MA Automotive Design and Vehicle Interiors students for their biannual exhibition, held in the city's impressive Transport ...
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I Draw Cars: The sketchbook that puts drawings into perspective
I Draw Cars is a project set up by Adam Hubers and Matt Marrocco - both CCS graduates - to encourage designers young and old to pick up their pens and practice that most basic yet powerful tool in their kit: sketching.
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Studio Focus: SAIC European Design Centre
But is the use of synchronized modeling and videoconference design reviews really a substitute for being in the same studio? While Martin concedes "there's no substitute for being there and reading the body language," there's also the feeling that people feel a little more free to be honest - something ...
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Studio Focus: SAIC European Design Centre
SAIC European Design CentreBrands MG and RoeweEstablished 2010 (in current guise)Location Longbridge, UKStaff 35Studio leader Martin Uhlarik
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First Sight: Citroën C4
The C4 was previewed in Geneva with the C4 Sport (a WRX themed concept car based very closely on the production 3-door C4) and less directly with the C6 Lignage Citroen concept car of Geneva 1999 which introduced many of the new car's exterior and interior design themes on a ...
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De Tomaso plans to unveil new Pantera
Following the unveiling of its new Pininfarina-designed Deauville at the Geneva motor show earlier this year, De Tomaso is planning to unveil a new Pantera at September's Frankfurt motor show.