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Interview: Simon Saunders, Design Director and CEO, Ariel Motor Company
CDN: "How have you changed over time as a designer?"
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Interview: Simon Saunders, Design Director and CEO, Ariel Motor Company
The world of car design is quite small. While there are millions of graphic designers globally, there are only about 25,000 car designers in total. Of these, very few make it to be Design Directors. And, so far, only one has made it all the way to running a car ...
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Coventry University MA Design Show 2007
Face-OffYunpeng XieAs a two seat hybrid, Face-Off has been designed around the premise that the face of the car communicates emotion and should therefore be altered to show different expressions such as happiness, sadness and aggression. There are covers over the headlights to show these emotions and they can be ...
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Coventry University MA Design Show 2007
Coventry University's MA Automotive Design Show, now in its fifteenth year, recently had its annual exhibition in Coventry's Transport Museum. Entitled 'InGenius', the exhibition presented work which covered a spectrum of vehicle concepts, including public transport systems. The projects were presented as scale models and digital animated presentations using CAD ...
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Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari opens in Modena [w/video and gallery]
A new Ferrari museum opened this weekend in Modena celebrating the life and work of Enzo Ferrari, the legend behind the Italian supercar icon.
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2005 Trends and Overview
There's also a generic bodyside section that's becoming ubiquitous. First seen a couple of years ago, it's seems to have spread across every European studio now. It comprises three main elements: a strongly diving swage line towards the front wheel (like that on many recent Mercedes models); a vertical slit ...
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2005 Trends and Overview
The 61st International Motor Show in Frankfurt (IAA) is the largest biennial show in Europe, occupying 213,000 sq m of exhibition space over ten halls, with over one thousand exhibitors. Entitled 'Faszination Auto', there seemed somewhat less to really fascinate this time than at many previous shows. As for 'star ...
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Design Review: Mercedes CST Vision B
Nearly three years ago Mercedes presented the Vision R Grand Sports Tourer concept in Detroit which heralded a new direction for Mercedes production cars. The GST was a 'crossover' vehicle with the four wheel drive and muscular design identity of an SUV, the three rows of seats and versatility of ...
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Nissan to open new Global Headquarters Gallery
Nissan, which opened its new global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, last weekend (coinciding with the unveiling of the automaker's new electrically-propelled Leaf), will open a new gallery dedicated to its products on August 8th. Just as German automakers BMW and Porsche have shrines dedicated to their respective brands, Nissan's new ...
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Tokyo Motor Show 2009 - Trends and Overview
Another car/bike hybrid was the tri-wheeled Phiaro P67b Eternity, launched at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show, which could tilt to 45 degrees compared to the Nissan's 17. At this year's show, however, Phairo moved from three wheels to three seats, unveiling a concept designed in conjunction with Tokyo Communication ...
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Tokyo Motor Show 2009 - Trends and Overview
Though Nissan showed the Land Glider, Honda unveiled its ingenious U3-X alongside its retro-inspired EV-N and Toyota displayed the FT-EV II and the FT-86 concepts, this year's assembly of predominantly domestic automakers at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show fell short of the truly over-the-top show cars that have historically pointed ...
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Northumbria University Show 2005
The 14 students graduating from the BA (Hons) Transportation Design course based in Newcastle in the north east of England have been exhibiting their work in their studios at Northumbria University as well as at the Lingotto building in Turin, Italy. The summer degree exhibitions were held in June.The work ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Isuzu 4200R (1989)
In the eighties, General Motors-owned Isuzu was fairly successful, but it was suffering from a ‘plain' brand image. To gain recognition, it presented a series of concept cars such as the COA, COA III and Costa but the most effective was the stunning 4200R.
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Video: The Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo concept build process
Porsche has released a video featuring Style Director Michael Mauer charting the design process of the Panamera Sport Turismo concept.
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EVER Conference 2008
With rising fuel prices, and taxation systems - particularly in Europe - increasingly favoring cleaner, greener vehicles, this event was notably busier than last year - the public drawn in by the chance to test out and drive ‘cars of the future'. Car Design News had the opportunity to drive ...
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EVER Conference 2008
'Maximum' Bob Lutz of GM may have recently told journalists he thought climate change was "a total croc of sh*t", but Prince Albert II of Monaco is clearly sold on the idea of the world's global warming problem - and does his best to position the principality of Monaco as ...
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First details of 2013 Skoda Octavia emerge
More details and images of the 2013 Skoda Octavia have been revealed ahead of its official announcement.
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Jeep and Mopar create six concepts
Jeep and Mopar have created six new vehicles in time for the annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, which takes place from 31 March to 8 April.
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Design Review: Italdesign Tex and Go! concepts
Its IP architecture is split into horizontal planes, with essential driver information and rear-view displays placed along the base of the windscreen, above an uncluttered, cream-upholstered baseboard decorated with large, indirect air outlets. HVAC and other secondary controls are housed in a center stack floating in front of a beautiful ...
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Design Review: Italdesign Tex and Go! concepts
The 2011 Geneva motor show marked a new era in the history of Italdesign Guigiaro. The geographical repositioning of the Italian design house's show stand away from its traditional home among its peers and into the bosom of its new owners, the VW Group, marked the end of its independence. ...