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LA Design Challenge 2011: studios compete to design Hollywood car
This year's LA Design Challenge will see competitors from around the world battle to design Hollywood's next movie car.
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2011 LA Design Challenge entries revealed
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, inc Advanced Design Center, California.Silver LightningPaying homage to its 125 years of automotive innovation, Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North America has created a fusion of safety and style in its futuristic society, featuring crash test mannequins Hans05 and Franz02 as well as the Silver ...
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2011 LA Design Challenge entries revealed
As the Los Angeles Auto Show rapidly approaches, the 8th international Design Challenge has been announced. Inviting studios from across the globe to compete, previous years have seen concepts created for environmentally conscious briefs that called for sub-1000lb vehicles through to ‘Motorsport 2025' concepts that reinterpreted motor racing in the ...
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Who's Where: Wulin Gaowa appointed design director of GM China Advanced Design
Wulin Gaowa has been appointed to fill a newly-created role as GM China Advanced Design's first Design Director. She will start her new role with immediate effect.
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Interior Motives China Conference 2011 - Day 2
Session 6: Deeper into designInterior Motives' Editor, Euan Sey, chaired the penultimate session of this year's conference, which asked how detail in terms of form, graphics, materials and colors could be used to explore Chinese design.
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Interior Motives China Conference 2011 - Day 2
Following on from the colorful discussions started yesterday, delegates returned to the Millennium Hotel in Shanghai for the second and final - and no less thought-provoking - day.Again the context for the discussion was 'The challenge of being different: establishing a local design direction for China's maturing market', with the ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2011 - Day 1
Instead, he showed a series of videos that provided a neat overview of the history of the brand and introduced, under the context of Peugeot's 'Motion and Emotion' mantra, the carmaker's three recent concept cars, BB1, HR1 and SxC, the latter to be launched here in Shanghai. Finally, Wulin Gaowa, ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2011 - Day 1
Over 300 industry delegates gathered for the opening day of the annual Interior Motives China conference, which this year takes place in Shanghai, just a few days prior to the opening of the international auto show on Tuesday. Interior Motives is CDN's print magazine and this is its 4th annual ...
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BMW DesignworksUSA heads to China
In light of its growth within China, BMW plans to open a DesignworksUSA studio in the country. Building on its studio portfolio of Los Angeles, Munich and Singapore, the Shanghai studio will be added to the repertoire in the second half of 2011.
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Studio Tour: Shanghai Volkswagen
On our recent tour of the automotive design industry of Shanghai, China, CDN paid a visit to the studio one of the most established foreign Joint Ventures (JVs) in China - Shanghai Volkswagen.
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Mercedes-Benz inaugurates Advanced Design Studio in Beijing, China
Mercedes-Benz inaugurated its global Advanced Design Center in Beijing, China, yesterday, Thursday July 21. The Beijing design center, Daimler's fifth advanced design studio worldwide, further reinforces the growing importance of the Chinese auto market and Beijing in particular; the city is increasingly influencing changing needs and trends.
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Jaguar C-X16 concept scoops 'Design Concept of the Year' award
The Jaguar C-X16 concept car has won Design Concept Car of the Year at the 2012 Scottish Car of the Year Awards.
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Design Review: Jaguar C-X16 concept
Nice detailing includes the clamshell hood as a neat way to minimize the shutlines on the fender top, the side-hinged coffin lid rear hatch and the inlaid carbon fiber blades in the 21-inch wheels. We also noted the ‘Cool Cat' growler - complete with sunglasses - in the grille when ...
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Design Review: Jaguar C-X16 concept
Jaguar has been on a roll these last 12 months, following the show-stopping C-X75 presented at last year's Paris show and the 50th anniversary celebrations of the marque's most iconic car - the E-Type. While the C-X75 was dramatic due to its exaggerated supercar proportions, stunning interior and ingenious micro-turbine ...
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Anders Warming to replace Gert Hildebrand as Design Director at Mini
Mini is set to get a new Design Director at the start of the new year. Gert Volker Hildebrand will pass the reigns to current Head of Exterior Design at BMW Cars, Anders Warming, the German automaker announced today.
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Citroën Survolt Francoise Nielly art car displayed at C_42, Paris
Citroën's C_42 building on Paris' world famous Champs-Elysées has launched its new exhibition season, with an art car version of its Survolt concept by French artist Francoise Nielly.
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Max Wolff to become Design Director at Lincoln
Ford's luxury nameplate, Lincoln, is set to welcome a new design director, the first dedicated design director for the brand. The role will be filled by former GM designer Max Wolff, who will head the design team in the new year.
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Scuola Politecnica di Design announces Chris Bangle workshop
Italy’s Scuola Politecnica di Design has announced a seven-day workshop with former BMW Group design boss Chris Bangle at its campus in Milan. Themed ‘Future Personal Emotional Mobility’ and scheduled to run from 18 to 24 September 2009, the workshop invites design degree graduates and experienced car designers to take ...
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Chris Bangle resigns as BMW Group Design Director
BMW today announced that Chris Bangle is resigning from his position as Head of Design for the BMW Group. Bangle will be handing over his post to current Head of BMW Automobile Design, Adrian van Hooydonk, when he leaves the company to pursue his own design-related endeavors outside the auto ...
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Chris Bangle: Hero of Modern Car Design
Dig a little deeper and the disquiet so many of Bangle's peers have with his work stems from the way they think he changed what wasn't broken, in the process side-stepping the unspoken assumption that car design is all about chasing beauty. They might also have been a little piqued ...