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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Summer Show 2009
Germany's Pforzheim University recently held its summer degree show at the city's Congress Center for students in the school's Transportation Design program. The exhibition included work from nine graduating Masters' students and 13 Diploma students, as well as a Mercedes-Benz-sponsored Normal 0 ...
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Pforzheim University Winter Degree Show 2010
20/20 projectHarish KumarThis was the most abstract project on display, and explores how forthcoming haptic displays and interfaces might be used in an interior. "It aims to include blind people into the design team and gives sighted people an alternative experience of how to interact with the surrounding space," says ...
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Pforzheim University Winter Degree Show 2010
Pforzheim University held its winter degree show earlier this month, taking over the Congresshall complex in downtown Pforzheim again, rather than the school itself, which is situated on the outskirts of the town. The German school's exhibition covered projects from five graduating Masters' students and eight BA students, with an ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center Summer Degree Show 2011
Spaceware conceptEric Miller Part of a greater vision of personal mobility called ‘Holistica', Miller's thesis project is a preliminary design of an optimized space suit engineered for greater flexibility on a space tour. Called Spaceware, the project adopts the principles of exoskeletons and utilizes strength-augmenting, pneumatic artificial muscles to overcome ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center Summer Degree Show 2011
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. With a total of nine students graduating from the nation's leading Transportation Design course, this year's thesis projects showcased a diverse range of ...
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Interview: Chuck Pelly, founder of Designworks USA, The LA Design Challenge and The Design Academy
What future trends do you see in car design? One to watch is the humanization of cars. Active aerodynamics can make grilles look very human. Also, I think the acceleration of luxury, personalization and more natural and mixed materials will feature.
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Interview: Chuck Pelly, founder of Designworks USA, The LA Design Challenge and The Design Academy
'Industry veteran' can be an overused term but Chuck Pelly's 40-plus years of professional design experience definitely makes him qualify. He's perhaps best known for founding DesignworksUSA but his design story started in 1954 after getting a $3000 scholarship from the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild - an annual competition set ...
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BMW DesignworksUSA: Creativity through Diversity
Recent commissions have included the K2 Black Hawk One ski/snowboard helmet, the Star Tac Spinner NXT exercise bike, the X series mini-tractor for John Deere, shavers for Remington, cappuccino-makers for Saeco, a vacuum cleaner for Nilfisk, the Villeroy & Bosch 'Hype' bathroom tap, a home recycling unit/crusher for Ecopod, an ...
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BMW DesignworksUSA: Creativity through Diversity
Here's a new big BMW - but this one's a boat. The Cruiser 55, result of a collaboration between BMW Group DesignworksUSA and Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH, is the German shipbuilder's largest yacht yet and the latest in a series of craft developed by Designworks, whose Munich studio was responsible for ...
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Laurenz Schaffer Appointed President of BMW Group’s DesignworksUSA
There's a game of musical chairs being played at DesignworksUSA, the BMW Group's design consultancy subsidiary. Starting December 1 this year, two key executives will be taking on new roles within the design consultancy, while the company's current President will be moving on to a new position within BMW Group ...
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Car Design News - GM Interactive Design Competition Winners Announced at NAIAS
Car Design News and General Motors today announced the eight winners of their interactive design competition in an awards ceremony on the Cadillac stand at the North American International Auto Show 2012 (NAIAS).
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Peter Horbury replaces Steve Mattin as Vice President of Design at Volvo Cars
Ford Motor Company announced key changes to both Volvo Cars and Ford's Americas design operations today. Effective May 1, Peter Horbury, currently Executive Director of Ford Americas Design, will return to Volvo as Vice President of Design, replacing Steve Mattin who, according to Volvo, "elected to leave the company". Insider ...
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Who's Where: Moray Callum to head Ford Americas Design
Moray Callum has been named Executive Director for Ford Americas design effective May 1, 2009. He will be taking over the position from Peter Horbury, who has been appointed to replace Steve Mattin at Volvo Cars.
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Exclusive: Joel Piaskowski to head Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design NA
Thanks to our contacts within the automotive design community, Car Design News can confirm that Joel Piaskowski, who resigned from his position as Chief Designer at Hyundai's North American design studios on December 19, 2008, will be taking over the position previously held by Gorden Wagener at Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design. ...
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Design Review: Nissan 370Z
The 370Z shares the core hood and body side volumes of its predecessor - as well as its general proportions and profile - but its DLO is closer to that of the original Z-car design from 40 years ago. The 370 also relates to the 240Z with the proportions of ...
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Design Review: Nissan 370Z
Last year Nissan announced the long-awaited production GT-R, which we labeled ‘the defining Japanese sports car' because it is so definitively Japanese - both conceptually and aesthetically - and different to anything that could come from a European or American carmaker.
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CDOTY awards presented at Auto Design Night Geneva
Car Design News, in partnership with Interior Motives magazine, hosted the fourth annual Auto Design Night event at La Sip nightclub in Geneva last night. With more than 300 attendees reading like a who's who in automotive design, designers were able to reconnect with old friends and make new acquaintances ...
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Design Development: BMW 6 Series
The possibility of a folding hardtop was mooted for the Convertible, but rejected quite early on. "The fabric roof and drop-down rear screen were a very successful concept on the previous model, so we wanted to keep it. On this version we also have this separation of the roof to ...
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Design Development: BMW 6 Series
Iranian designer Nader Faghihzadeh has had a sizeable impact on BMW design since he joined the company a few years ago. Starting off in the Advanced Design department sketching on the concept for the fifth-generation 7 Series, he found himself in the enviable position of being able to bring the ...
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BMW launches i sub-brand
BMW yesterday revealed one of the more significant mobility plans since the inception of the automobile: the BMW i sub-brand. The new brand seeks to integrate sustainable elements with a slew of powerful technology whilst simultaneously improving mobility across both private and public platforms. The first vehicles will be launched ...