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Design Museum's Designs of the Year Awards 2012
The Design Museum opened its ‘Designs of the Year' exhibition yesterday in a celebration of global design innovation at its home in Shad Thames, London.
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GM won't show new cars in LA
GM has delayed the unveiling of two new cars the company had intended to show the press and public at the forthcoming Los Angeles auto show.
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Video and design sketch of Honda-badged NSX Concept released
Honda has revleased a video design sketch of its NSX Concept, due to be unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
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Icon founder Jonathan Ward on his latest 'Derelicts' project [w/video]
Bespoke car restoration company, Icon, along with its founder and lead designer, Jonathan Ward, are the subject of eGarages's latest short film, Derelict.
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Show Review: Milan Design Week 2009
Humans have always been on a lifelong quest for meaning, but all forms of design - whether it's industrial, interior, product, graphic or car - often exclude what it is we really care about. Years ago John Seely Brown of Xerox PARC stated: "Leaders don't just make products and make ...
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Design Review: Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept
The interior design was lead by Mattijs van Tuijl with colour and trim by Simona Falcinella assisted by Sabine Lapine, and in theme is more cabriolet than SUV. The white leather with laser-etched pattern on the seats along with the almost delicate two spoke steering wheel and calm forms give ...
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Design Review: Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept
Audi is not the first brand that comes to mind if you're thinking about SUVs. The Q7 is the company's first and it is only two years old, but this SUV/crossover (in the US it's labeled a crossover, in Europe it's marketed as an SUV) has outsold many established competitors. ...
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Book Review: ‘Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything’
The ‘59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz is best known in pink. Pink! Can you believe it? A symbol of hope and change, the color of lipstick. It would be like dressing Obama in chiffon for his inauguration: it was audacious. That was the dawn of microwaves and the space-race, ambition fuelled ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2005 Trends and Overview
Many stands featured 1970s cars as a reminder of their company's heritage. To support the launch of the new 3-Series, BMW showed a lovely 320i from 1975, plus a gorgeous 3.0CSL 'batmobile' from 1973. Alfa showed a Guilietta to support the release of the new 159, while Opel displayed a ...
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CDN launches Studio Photos
Car Design News is today launching 'Studio Photos', an extensive new library of high quality car photos taken in a photography studio. Developed in conjunction with automotive design research consultancy Car Men, it is a unique CDN member service created specifically as a visual benchmarking tool for design studios and ...
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Spotlight: The Future of GM
Summer in Detroit usually means vacation time, as factories close to retool for the new model year. The only signs of activity traditionally revolve around press previews of new cars in August. But in this year of crisis, which saw Chrysler and General Motors sink into bankruptcy and, with United ...
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Video: Lexus LF-CC concept explained by its designers
We're big fans of the Lexus LF-CC concept after seeing it in Paris. It's not what you would call traditionally beautiful but it's incredibly complex, engagingly off-beat and, most importantly, shows - along with the LF-LC concept - that Lexus may finally have a recipe for distinctive and consistent design.
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Strate College degree show 2009
Graduating students from Strate College in Paris, France displayed their final projects in a degree show held at the school's temporary facility late last month. Founded in 1993, the school has outgrown its rented facility and is in the process of relocating to a new purpose-built facility, which will be ...
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Design and Technology at Siggraph 2008
From 11-15 August over 28,000 artists, research scientists, developers, filmmakers, and academics from around the world gathered in Los Angeles for the 35th Siggraph Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The Siggraph conference includes courses and technical paper presentations, new technologies demos, an art gallery, computer animation festival, ...
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Design Essay: Cars Meet Chairs 2007
Aside from these fleeting parallels, Zagato brought a stronger automotive flavor to Milan than some previous years. As well as presenting the GS concept at Villa D'Este, it was the first time the Italian Carrozeria opened their doors to the fair, presenting a catalogue of previous work in conjunction with ...
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Design Essay: Cars Meet Chairs 2007
Milan's Zona Tortona used to comprise of a few warehouses circling a parking lot, but this year the attractions erected for Design Week spread over the whole block. Environmental design was one of the subjects being addressed by designers here, though decorating a gas-hob to imply a cow in a ...