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Car Design of the Year Awards presented in Geneva 2006
Exactly a month after announcing the Saab Aero X and Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione as the 2006 Car Design of the Year winners, Car Design News presented these awards to the winning design teams at the Geneva Motor Show.
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Exclusive: Laurens van den Acker to replace Patrick le Quément at Renault
The wheels of change are continuing to turn within the automotive design industry, with yet another new appointment being made at the director level. According to industry insiders, Laurens van den Acker is set become the new Design Director at Renault when Patrick le Quément retires later this year.
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Art Center Summer Show 2008
Lexus New ZeitakuGary ShiuInspired by icons of Japanese youth culture with a touch of leading-edge international design the Lexus New Zeitaku addresses social conditions of a new generation while maintaining an air of elegance. 'New Luxury for New Money'.
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Art Center Summer Show 2008
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, held its summer semester show in August, one of three graduation shows per year. The show featured work from 10 graduating students in the Bachelor of Science - Transportation Design program. A selection of the projects are outlined below.
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Art Center Winter Degree Show 2010
Opencab Land Rover Michael ChurchillCapable, premium and ambitious are the design words behind Michael Churchill's plucky looking Opencab Land Rover truck concept. Targeted towards affluent young urban dwellers the concept is an attempt to fill a gap in Land Rover's tough vehicle image. In the United States especially, rugged badges ...
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Art Center Winter Degree Show 2010
The 2010 Art Center Winter Show that took place late last month was the stage for many talented graduates. Sixteen students presented their work at the show, each with quality and finish that was extremely impressive. So too was each student's commitment to the design process and their own inspiration. ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center Summer Show 2011 - Non-thesis work
Art Center College of Design held its annual Summer Degree show at its campus in Pasadena, California on the eve of the Pebble Beach weekend of events. Besides their main crux of thesis projects, nine graduating students in the acclaimed Transportation Design course showcased some of the designs they worked ...
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Design Essay: Boats and car design
The boat industry has for a long time remained stagnant, but over the past five years sales have jumped, with studios expanding as much as hull lengths as they vie for contracts in the superyacht stakes. Boatmakers like Wally show how advanced marine design has become - note that both ...
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Who's Where: Verena Kloos named President of DesignworksUSA
Click for larger imagesDesignworksUSA, the California-based international strategic design consultancy owned by BMW Group, has announced that Verena C. Kloos has been named President of DesignworksUSA. In this position, she will oversee the company's day-to-day operations and strategic direction. She will report directly to Chris Bangle, Director of BMW Group ...
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CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition - interior phase finalists announced
Cadillac (Cont.)Completing the final three is Vitaliy Pankov, a student who drew particular praise from the judges. Not only did Anne Asensio feel that he deserved a special mention for his enthusiasm in the online community and participation as a commentator, but Vitaliy was the only non-industrial/transportation design student to ...
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CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition - interior phase finalists announced
July 19 saw the CDN-GM competition judging and mentoring teams meet at GM's world HQ in Warren, Michigan, to cast judgment over the 99 entries to the interior phase of the competition. The competition asked design students to develop concepts in response to briefs set by each of GM's four ...
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Design Review: Lincoln Concept C
Lincoln doesn't make a small car yet but it if did, the Concept C unveiled at the NAIAS gives a strong indication of what one could look like. The market for small luxury cars - or what Peter Horbury, Ford's executive director of design for the Americas, terms "sensible indulgence" ...
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Ford's NA Design Director aims to shorten product lifecycles
Peter Horbury, Ford Motor Company North America Design Director, has told Automotive News he intends to shorten product lifecycles at the ailing company from an average five years to three years starting this decade.
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Interview: Peter Horbury, Executive Director of Design, NA, Ford Motor Company
Horbury notably uses non-automotive metaphors in speeches, in the past commenting on reciprocity between car and furniture design using Volvo and laminated furniture as examples.
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Interview: Peter Horbury, Executive Director of Design, NA, Ford Motor Company
Peter Horbury has been Ford Motor Company's Executive Director of Design, North America, since January 2004 after two years spent championing design for the Premier Automotive Group. Still answering to J Mays, his responsibilities now include overseeing design strategy and execution of all Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products in North ...
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
"You have to change things; what you must have is the time to get the finessing you need," Gaffka points out. "George [Saridakis] is very good at this, that's what he did for one and a half years."
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
There was something rather out of step with the new Mustang’s debut at the recent LA Auto Show. Here was a new design from Ford, conceptually and thematically representing so much of what was once great about American car design, American cars and the post-war ‘baby-boomer’ period of US car ...
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Design Development: 2010 Ford Taurus
With these tools the designers were able to view their proposal in different environments, get perfectly realistic images, change the lighting conditions and see the vehicle in action. "It makes a big difference when you see how the reflections shift across the surfaces," said Horbury. Lucas added how designers were ...
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Chrysler to close Pacifica Advanced Design Studios
The 20 designers at Chrysler's Pacifica Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad, California will soon be finding themselves out of a job. The struggling North American automaker announced the closure of the facility on Friday, stating that the company is ‘leveraging resources worldwide, forming new joint ventures and alliances and consolidating ...
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Confirmed: Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design North America relocates
As we reported last month, Mercedes-Benz has now confirmed it will be moving its Advanced Design studio from Irvine to a more spacious facility near Carlsbad, California this July.