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Winners of the 'Ultimate LA Machine' Design Challenge announced
The designers conference kicked off with a presentation by Frank Stephenson, Director of Ferrari/Maserati Concept Design, giving a look behind the scenes at the design and manufacturing process, and outlining the design characteristics of the marques.
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Winners of the 'Ultimate LA Machine' Design Challenge announced
Designer Reto Brun of Volkswagen/Audi Design Center California said his studio considered two Los Angeles issues when designing the Volkswagen Mobile Lounge - an antidote to traffic and a better option for the area's "limo-centric" entertainment culture. Whisper-quiet fuel cell technology whisks occupants towards their destination while electronically controlled tinted ...
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Art Center Summit - Designing Sustainable Mobility
Shrinking oil reserves, global warming, failed political administration policies, the car as an avatar, industrial humanism and the motorized shoe were just a few of the topics and ideas discussed at the Art Center College of Design 'Designing Sustainable Mobility' conference, held in California in February.
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Show Review: Art Center Car Classic 2007
Just a further couple of steps away, one could also be standing between the George Barris-designed Monkees Pontiac GTO and the Blackhawk Collection's Alfa Romeo BAT cars. I am sure you'll agree that any show which has the recently re-united three BAT cars together in formation is of course a ...
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Show Review: Art Center Car Classic 2007
For those of you who haven't yet attended, Art Center's Car Classic is rapidly becoming the talk of the concours circuit. Held during the middle of the summer trimester at the main Hillside campus in Pasadena, it was started just three years ago and is gaining quite a following not ...
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Art Center BMW/Exa project
There's a new sponsored project that is just getting under way at Art Center College of Design, the likes of which hasn't been seen in a very long time - if at all. The school's Transportation Design department has helped bring together BMW with Exa Corporation, a Boston-based virtual aerodynamic ...
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CDN and GM launch new interactive competition for students in North America
We know it's tempting to jump right in and start uploading sketchwork. But remember, the judges and mentors will be looking not just at your final design, but also at how it was developed and the process you went through - including comments from others - to get there. Each ...
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CDN and GM launch new interactive competition for students in North America
Multiple internships on offer with CDN-GM Interactive Competition
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Who's Where: Karim Habib joins Mercedes-Benz
Karim Habib, former Team Leader for Advanced Design at BMW, joined Mercedes-Benz earlier this month, becoming Head of Advanced Design at the German automaker's Stuttgart studio. Habib will work under newly appointed Mercedes-Benz Head of Design, Gorden Wagener.
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Design Contest: LA Auto Show previews 2006 Design Challenge
Maybach California Gourmet Tourer. Click for larger imagesMercedes-Benz Mojave RunnerMitsubishi Roadster KonzeptScion ExileSmart Rescue VehicleMercedes-Benz Mojave RunnerMercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North AmericaThe gas-electric hybrid Mojave Runner is designed to thrive in extreme heat, rough terrain or unpredictable weather. It features night vision, sandstorm radar and GPS sen
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Design Contest: LA Auto Show previews 2006 Design Challenge
Audi Nero.. Click for larger imagesAudi NeroGMC PADHonda LA Rolling Film FestivalHyundai Greenspeed GatorKia SidewinderDec 2, 2005 - The Los Angeles Auto Show has revealed entries for the second annual Design Challenge, part of the 'Design Los Angeles' automobile designers conference. Now in its second year, the conference bridges ...
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Show Review: Design LA
Uniquely in the competition, the Mini Biomoke is credited to Gary Shiu, a design intern at BMW Group Design Works USA. It's also perhaps the entry most relevant to its brand - Mini might very realistically consider a West Coast and Moke-inspired, simple new model in their line-up.
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Show Review: Design LA
Design LA, the automotive design conference that incorporates the Design Challenge competition, has announced its winners, during this year's LA Motor Show.
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Design Development: Nissan Juke
The development of the interior was started slightly after the exterior in late 2006, but not that much later, as interior designer Patrick Reimer points out: "you've always got to wait for the belt line and the window points and the seat positions. It's not quite clear until they are ...
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Design Development: Nissan Juke
There's nothing 'me-too' about the new Nissan Juke. The radically styled vehicle effectively kick-starts a new production segment from later this year — the supermini/crossover — and although primarily aimed at Europe, Nissan also plans to shake up markets in the US and Japan by seeking customers bored of anonymous ...
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College Exhibition: Scuola Politecnica di Design Show
Masters students on the Transportation Design course at Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Italy have recently displayed the results of a project done in collaboration with Lamborghini. Twenty students were faced with the delicious task of reinterpreting the legendary Espada, the four-seater front-engined GT designed by Gandini under Bertone ...
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Ikuo Maeda to replace Laurens van den Acker as General Manager of Design at Mazda
Ikuo Maeda has been appointed General Manager of Mazda Motor Corporation's Design Division. He replaces Laurens van den Acker, who has decided to leave Mazda to pursue other interests.
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Art Center Summit 2008
Many called for designers and entrepreneurs to lead the way in creating a vision of the future consumers could buy into. Little new was said about how this might be achieved by designers often working in a client driven, risk-averse corporate world and short-term, vote-focused politicians working within a four ...
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Art Center Summit 2008
Sustainability is a hot topic in the automotive world right now, so it's encouraging to see Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California - famed for its transportation design course - determined to position itself as a leading institution on the subject.
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Art Center College of Design Spring Show 2007
Parker Fredlund - 2020 Buick Riviera Buick is in need of a revitalization of its brand image. Resurrecting the Riviera nameplate was a key in establishing a strong brand history, while still allowing for more daring design direction as history has shown. Tension architecture was studied to develop the form ...