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Design Development: Yanfeng Visteon Glide
Those who attended our Designers' Night in Beijing earlier in the year will have seen the Yanfeng Visteon Glide concept car, a car many thought one of the best displayed throughout the whole motor show period.
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Royal College of Art interim exhibition - 'Automotivation'
The long-established RCA Vehicle Design course has produced some of the world's most respected and successful automotive designers. In the exhibition, a range of design projects considered the needs of the world's changing landscape for private and public mobility.
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Interview: Anthony Lo, Director of Advanced Design, GME
CDN: When you're creating the future of these brands, what creative stimuli do you value?
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Interview: Anthony Lo, Director of Advanced Design, GME
Anthony Lo, Advanced Design Director at GM Europe, has had a wealth of experience working for automotive manufacturers the world over since he graduated from the MA Automotive Design program at the RCA. Lo studied industrial design in his native Hong Kong, before being accepted into the postgraduate program and, ...
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Mini at the Salone del Mobile, Milan
Mini is using this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan to showcase its 'flair for design.' As with previous years, Mini will be using sites at Milan's Università degli Studi and the Triennale Design Museum for its installations that highlight the brand's 'Creative Use of Space' philosophy.
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Smart wins 2011 LA Design Challenge
Daimler's Smart division won this year's LA Design Challenge, the brief of which was to create ‘Hollywood's Hottest New Movie Car'. The entries were judged on how well the vehicle reflected its brand attributes relative to the plot, how the vehicle related to the target audience, and the level of ...
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Design Review: Dacia Duster concept
The cabin is a successful example of bringing together a number of current trends and giving them a new twist. The deeply bucketed driver's seat is incorporated in a structure which extends all the way from the sill to the center console, forming a sculptural, one-piece ensemble that echoes the ...
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Design Review: Dacia Duster concept
Renault's revival of the Dacia brand has been a resounding success in today's struggling car market. The original Logan model has gone on to sell over 750,000 units since 2004 and Renault feels it is now time to explore the next stage of the Dacia brand language - hence the ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Alfa Romeo BAT 7
This week sees the Concept of the Week title go to Alfa Romeo and Bertone for their collaboration on the Alfa Romeo BAT 7, the second addition to the BAT series that began in 1953 and finished in 1955.
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See you in Shanghai; Conference and Awards events from CDN
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Michelin Challenge Design 2009
As the 2009 Michelin Challenge Design - focusing on the search for ‘America's Next Iconic Vehicle' - drew to a close at the NAIAS in Detroit, culminating in a press preview and an exhibition of scale models, the theme for next year's competition was announced: ‘Electrifying! Beautiful, Innovative and Radiant'.
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CDN - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition deadline extended
The deadline for the 2012 Car Design News - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition has been extended until midnight (00:00 GMT) Friday 11 May.
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College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition 2007
The College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, Michigan hosted their Annual Student Exhibition in May this year, showing the work of more than 3,500 students. The Transportation Design program - sponsored by Toyota, Nissan and Honda - showed off the work of junior and senior students, each working from ...
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Who's Where: Phil Simmons joins Land Rover
Phil Simmons, currently Chief Designer at Ford of Europe, will join the Land Rover design team on 1 August as the company's first-ever studio director.
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Cars, Culture and the City
And New York was the center of show business: the automobile was celebrated with song and dance and spectacle at General Motors annual Motorama shows of the 1950s and with two World's fairs, in 1939 and in 1965.
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Cars, Culture and the City
When you think of American cities associated with the car it is Los Angeles of course that leaps first to mind, thanks mostly to Hollywood, and Detroit second. But New York turns out to have been vital in the history of car design, as I found researching an exhibition Cars, ...
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Paris Motor Show 2010 Trends & Overview
This year's Paris motor show was heralded as the most optimistic shows of recent times, with seemingly more concept cars gracing the halls of the Porte de Versailles than the rest of the year's shows combined, continuing the upswing in morale we witnessed in Geneva.
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General Motors EN-V to be branded Chevrolet
Chevrolet was gifted a centennial birthday present today, with parent company GM announcing that its 2030 Vision concept would carry the bow-tie badge. The youthful orientation and entry level positioning of Chevrolet within the GM portfolio subtly earmarks the intended audience for the EN-V, with the device being billed as ...
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College Exhibition: Strate College Degree Show 2007
Directly linking the car with the emotional medium of music is 'Taiko', a vehicle designed by Pierre Boyer. The concept creates sounds during the journey by using the movement of the road as well as the driver's imputs and carries it through the car's architecture, creating both a stimulating and ...