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CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition - Deadline extended!
The deadline for the second Phase of the CDN-GM Interactive Design competition has been extended until Monday, November 7th.
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Steve Mattin appointed Design Director at Volvo Cars
Steve Mattin (right) with Mercedes designer Gorden Wagener at the presentation of the Mercedes Grand Sports Tourer Vision R concept at the 2004 Paris Motor Show. Click for larger images Volvo Car Corporation has appointed British designer Steve Mattin as Vice President and Design Director, who joins the company ...
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ArticleDriven: Honda FRV
The Honda FRV is a misunderstood car. It’s a European market orientated compact MPV that unusually has two rows of three seats, a configuration shared only with the earlier Fiat Multipla design. But unlike the bulbous, short, tall and deep-windowed Italian, the Honda shares almost identical dimensions to the five seat Renault Scenic that is the compact MPV market leader
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Swansea Metropolitan University degree show 2009
Graduates from Swansea Metropolitan University, based on the South Wales coast, exhibited their final year BA and BSc Automotive Design projects at the National Waterfront Museum recently. A relative newcomer to automotive and transport design - this being only the second BA graduate cohort to graduate - the three-year ...
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Interview: Michael Mauer, Head of Style, Porsche
Is it a poison chalice to be a designer in an engineering-led firm?"It was to me very obvious from the beginning that if you have cars that can go well over 300km/h you definitely have different requirements to many other brands. It's a completely different world above 250-280km/h so you ...
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Interview: Michael Mauer, Head of Style, Porsche
After seven years as Head of Style Porsche, Michael Mauer is now firmly established at the brand, having been responsible for ‘most of' the controversial Panamera, the gentrification of the second-generation Cayenne plus the new 911 and 918 Spyder. And with bold range expansion plans afoot he arguably now has ...
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Design Contest: 2004 Motor Trend International Design Contest winners announced
Design Professional Category2nd Place: Magnus Gustafsson, Lockheed Martin X-2 Lightning - Trollhattan, Sweden3rd Place: Hilgard Muller, Bell Aegis - Santa Cruz, CaliforniaFinalist: Armando Mercado Villalobos, Swiss Army - Mexico City, Mexico
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Design Contest: 2004 Motor Trend International Design Contest winners announced
"This year's entries really stepped it up a notch creating some of the most cutting-edge designs we've seen," said Matt Stone, executive editor of Motor Trend."
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LA Auto Show 2010 - Trends and Overview
Elsewhere, the Mazda Shinari, aforementioned Ellure, and Hyundai's impressive new Elantra feel like a further message to customers that despite the growing number of niche products, the sedan still has much to offer, no longer playing second best in terms of features and quality to the SUV. Even Chrysler and ...
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LA Auto Show 2010 - Trends and Overview
Whenever we head to the US's west coast, it is always in the hope that we'll find the weird and wonderful of the automotive world. If that's not a cliche, then nothing is.
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London Design Festival 2009
After the overly serious tone of the main event, The Dock, on the Grand Union canal at Portobello Dock, was literally and metaphorically a breath of fresh air. Feeling more like a design picnic, with Tom Dixon, his dog and family in attendance, the youthful enthusiasm of the designers exhibiting ...
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London Design Festival 2009
As a cautiously-optimistic Frankfurt motor show followed a somber Geneva, so followed the more upbeat London Design Festival from an understated 2009 Milan Salone del Mobile. While the Salone saw manufacturers scaling back and designers reminiscing about simpler times, at 100% Design, Designers Block and The Dock (a new event ...
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Audi Urban Future Summit: Interactivity in the future city
The Audi Urban Summit is an international convention bringing together experts on urban mobility and development to discuss one central question: Which energies and forces will change the city of the future in 2020 - and what relationships will exist between these forces?
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Who's Where: Jason Castriota opens own design consultancy
Former Bertone and Pininfarina designer, Jason Castriota, has opened his own design consultancy based in New York and Turin. CDN recently caught up with Castriota - who is currently in New York - and discovered he's already working on a series of projects, despite having not yet officially ...
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Aston Martin expands personalization scheme
Aston Martin, the UK's ‘coolest brand', is set to increase its offerings of unique products. The British carmaker has announced that the ‘Works Tailored' personalization and customization department is expanding as part of a six-month development plan within the brand.
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College Exhibition: Umea Institute of Design Degree Show 2005
College Exhibition: Umea Institute of Design Degree Show 2005
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: MG EX-E
The MG EX-E, developed by Austin Rover and unveiled in 1985, is the subject of our Concept Car of the Week.
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College Exhibition: Umea Institute of Design Degree Show 2005
College Exhibition: Umea Institute of Design Degree Show 2005
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Design Essay: Lexus L-finesse - Sense and Sensuality
Founded as a loom-making company over a century ago, Toyoda then became the Toyota of today that also owns the Lexus and Daihatsu brands. Its history in manufacturing has given the world 'just in time' and 'quality circle' production strategies, models for efficiency that have been adopted the world over. ...