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Design Development: Volvo S60 concept
Officially, the wraps aren't taken off the S60 concept until January in Detroit, but in the run-up to the release of press details and images today Car Design News was invited to Sweden to get a good look at the crucial new executive sedan and talk to the team behind ...
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Interview: Daniel Darancou, Chief Designer for CH-Auto
CDN It seems that with so many brands now in China we have reached saturation point. Do you think there's still space for more?
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Interview: Daniel Darancou, Chief Designer for CH-Auto
With China continuing to lead the world in terms of economy and - as a result - the car industry, we caught up with a man with perhaps more responsibility and experience than most in the region, CH-Auto's Chief Designer Daniel Darancou.
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Car Design News Contest 2008 Winners
Few car designers in the world, if any, have had their work scrutinized by as many top car designers as each of our 20 finalists have. Every judge considered each of the six criteria for all 20 finalists and determined their individual value. Several judges commented on how this aspect ...
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Car Design News Contest 2008 Winners
It's been five months since the Car Design News Contest 2008 brief was first announced. And now, the last of our nine esteemed judges have completed their assessment of the 20 finalists. We are pleased to announce the winners in the professional and student designer categories, respectively: Jay Wen from ...
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College Exhibition: Umeå Insitute of Design degree show 2012
Earlier this year the Umeå Institute of Design's 2012 spring degree show exhibition saw three graduates showcasing their projects at the Swedish school. The reason for the unusually low number of students was that the other members of the class opted to take up offers of extended internships. They will ...
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Superyacht Range Rover Design competition
Customization is not a new phenomenon for Range Rovers. The luxury off-road vehicles have been regularly outfitted by Overfinch and tuners such as Hartge, Kahn and Hamann - even including the odd six-wheel creation - since the vehicle's inception. But now there's a new era of customization.
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Lowie Vermeersch resigns from Pininfarina
CDN has learned that Lowie Vermeersch has resigned from Pininfarina, where he was Design Director. According to our sources, the Belgian designer has left to pursue other as yet unnamed ventures in the design industry.
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Coventry Selected Works Show 2008
Coventry University's ‘Selected Works' show, held from Monday 23 to Sunday 29 June in the Transport Museum in Coventry, UK, showcased an array of projects created by students in the MDes Transport Design, BA Transport and Product Design, BA Automotive Design and BA Boat Design progams. Here are a selection ...
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Commentary: Auto China 2008
China is a country that's been trading its bicycles for a more modern mode of transport: the car. And while modernization as a whole can be viewed as a good thing, the alarming rate of growth can also be a severe drawback. Our recent trip to Beijing for Auto China ...
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Car Design of the Year 2009 Winners
Car Design News recognized the winners of the 2009 Car Design of the Year Award at last night's Car Design Night event at La Sip nightclub in Geneva. Car Design News Editor Eric Gallina presented the winning design teams at Aston Martin and General Motors for the most publicly acclaimed ...
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First Sight: Holden VE Commodore and Statesman
GM Holden last week launched its biggest program ever, the $1 billion all-new Holden VE Commodore range. Designed at Holden's Port Melbourne design center, the 4th generation Commodore is the first all-new model of the series to be fully designed and engineered in Australia. Previous generations of Commodore since 1978 ...
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ICEM Style creative design software launched
According to ICEM, it is now possible, for the first time in a concept design tool, to design in a photo-realistic modelling environment, without using third-party visualisation products, or to wait for a static rendering to be generated.
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz F125 concept
As with any Forschung project, the styling is simply the wrapper for the technical developments that are being showcased, which is where the car is more impressive. The body is mix of carbon fiber, aluminum and high-strength steels, while on the drivetrain side it demonstrates a further development of the ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz F125 concept
In the past Car Design News has been fairly skeptical with our views on Mercedes ‘Forschung' series of concepts, so it's no surprise that Gorden Wagener, Chief Designer, admitted they were somewhat nervous about the press reaction to their latest study, the F125 concept, which marks 125 years of the ...
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Driven: Kia Picanto
The first-generation Kia Picanto was one of the cars that helped promote Kia from the lower half of the second-division to somewhere near the playoff places. Its combination of great value, five-door practicality and vaguely cutesy - if thoroughly unremarkable - design found it many a home on the driveway ...
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General Motors' 2030 Vision
While these studios worked independently, the package and conceptual idea stems from the company's Detroit HQ and the driving force behind the project, Dr. Chris Borroni-Bird - Director of Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts. Design input throughout the program was fed by GM's Shanghai studio, to ensure that the end products ...
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General Motors' 2030 Vision
General Motors' impact upon the last century of automobility is rarely understated, but one crucial element in the company's success that is often ignored is its tradition and presence at global expos. The company's Futurama visions displayed at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1964 were hugely influential, ...