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Video: Toyota teases Furia concept
Toyota has released a teaser a teaser video to promote its new Furia concept, set to be unveiled at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month.
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Henrik Fisker launches new luxury sports car company
Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler have announced the opening of a new luxury car company, Fisker Coachbuild, based in Southern California to appeal to the global market. The focus of the company will be on designing and manufacturing exclusive high-end sports cars, which will be limited to 150 units per ...
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Toyota's Origami-inspired Geneva motor show stand
Toyota will premiere its new, origami-inspired global stand design at the upcoming Geneva motor show.
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Video: BMW’s beautiful Design Portrait of Karim Habib
We're often inundated with videos from OEMs. Many are thinly-disguised PR-laden party political broadcasts but occasionally we're presented with gems such as this Design Portrait of Karim Habib from BMW.
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FH Joanneum Graz - KTM project
KTM CX water motocross vehicle Christof Lahner and Miroslaw Leczek The KTM CX concept is a racing vehicle that brings the MotoX spirit to the water. Surface tension is used to account for the water's surface as an ever-changing off-road terrain. On a holdup, the CX rider sinks into the ...
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FH Joanneum Graz - KTM project
Industrial Design students in the 6th term at the University for Applied Science, FH Joanneum Graz, Austria showed concepts created in a KTM-sponsored project entitled 'KTM Superbrand' earlier this summer. Unlike typical transportation projects, this project called for students to create a product that would develop the transportation brand and ...
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NAIAS 2012 - Trends and Overview
It was noticeable how few concepts in Detroit had complete interiors or were closed-off to viewing. But there are several interior trends making headway. The clear push for technological differentiation is one of the biggest stories, although for the full picture you needed to head to CES.
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NAIAS 2012 - Trends and Overview
Luckily, the Cadillac ATS - a dimensional clone of the E90 BMW 3 Series - provided at least some bright light for GM at its home show.
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NAIAS 2012 - Trends and Overview
Anticipation: it's a word that has been sorely missing from the lexicon of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit over the last few years. Yet this year, with more than a dozen significant concept and production car unveils, many arrived in Detroit genuinely looking forward to the ...
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Design Review: WGSN-homebuildlife Trend Report Summer 2012
Hacked design focuses on multiple functions and inspired invention, with a core approach that cleverly combines salvaged materials, obsolete technology and an eccentric design eye. Reclaimed components are customised and assembled from home, creating lo-fi designs that offer spontaneity, energy and fun in the post-digital age.
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WGSN-homebuildlife Trend Report Summer 2012
This is the fourth in a series of special quarterly reports for CDN members from WGSN-homebuildlife, the online trend forecasting and product design tool created for the interiors market. It is an offshoot of WGSN, the online service which provides analysis, research and global creative intelligence for the fashion and ...
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Sao Paolo 'Giugiaro - 45 Years of Italian Design' exhibition announced
The ‘Giugiaro - 45 years of Italian Design' exhibition will be held at the Sao Paolo Museu da Casa Brasileira.
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College Exhibition: University of Cincinnati
Maybach TerosBobby Rebholz This extreme crossover between a luxury sedan and a sports car was designed for the Maybach brand. The Teros follows the traditions of the previous Maybach vehicles in having a long body and super-wide stance. The Teros is a two-passenger vehicle designed for the very wealthy ...
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College Exhibition: University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati (UC) Transportation Design Studio displayed two projects over the summer. Sponsored by Acura and DaimlerChrysler, the projects consisted of two ten-week quarters divided by professional practice. The first quarter of the projects involved 2D exterior theme development of a diverse range of crossover vehicles for the ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Aston Martin Bulldog
This week's Concept Car of the Week is one of the most outrageous expressions of the wedge profile from the most unlikely company, the Aston Martin Bulldog.
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Driven: Delta Motorsport E-4
The Delta Motorsport E-4 is the outcome of three years of research, design and development that is key to a new generation of British ingenuity.
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First Sight: Ford Evos concept
Two weeks prior to the Ford Evos concept's official world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show, CDN traveled to Berlin for an exclusive preview of the Blue Oval's latest creation. In attendance were Martin Smith (Europe and Asia-Pacific), Moray Callum (North America) along with with J. Mays, Group Vice ...
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Design Review: BMW Vision ConnectedDrive Concept
The orange of safety focuses on the driver, surrounding them with a ribbon of BMW's trademark instrument lighting color (much less distracting and easier to read quickly than other hues, incidentally). It focuses the flow of 'safety' related information into a 'cone of vision' ahead of the driver, defined by ...
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Design Review: BMW Vision ConnectedDrive Concept
The design world outside the rather insular automotive sector has long held the view that the car is increasingly irrelevant to the lives of many, particularly those who live in cities. Beyond the very basic conventions of the car's makeup, some suggest the automotive industry - and car design as ...
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Toyota's Tetsuya Kaida presents 'Space and Wind'
The future of car design lies in redefining the man/car relationship. The existing system utilizes and consumes, but the focus is soon to be changed to the interaction of a buyer and their auto. The relationship could then become one of improvement and communication. At this point in the presentation ...