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CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition winners announced at NAIAS
The winners of the CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition have been announced at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.
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Who's Where: Peter Schreyer appointed President of Kia Motors
Peter Schreyer has been been appointed President of Kia Motors after holding the position of Chief Design Officer since 2006.
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Pininfarina readies 'Sergio' concept for Geneva
Pininfarina is readying a concept car dedicated to the late Sergio Pininfarina to be shown at the Geneva motor show.
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Who's Where: Christopher Svensson and Joel Piaskowski swap roles at Ford
Ford's Christopher Svensson and Joel Piaskowski have swapped roles, with Svensson becoming exterior design director, The Americas, and Piaskowski director of design, Asia Pacific.
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ArticleCar Design Awards China 2013 winners revealed
Six months of work by students in China prefaced the announcement of the winners of this year’s Car Design Awards China, held at a glittering ceremony in Shanghai just prior to the opening of the Shanghai auto show.
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Design Review: Nissan Qazana concept
The large wheel size of the Qazana is exaggerated by the four concentric wheelarch ridges and by the blown fender volumes, but the rest of the profile is quite clean. The DLO apes that of the Murano and Qashqai with an up-sweep into the C-pillar and also curves up into ...
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Design Review: Nissan Qazana concept
The Qazana concept was probably the most impressive debut unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring a conceptually and aesthetically innovative and complete design and an innately appealing character. But its main significance is not so much as a one-off design study, but rather as a preview of a new ...
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Changes at Nissan Design
Nissan yesterday announced a series of changes within its higher-level design structure - with VPs responsible for design in Europe and America effectively swapping roles.
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Interview: Alfonso Albaisa, Vice President, Nissan Design Europe
CDN: What's the difference in the design team at NDE and NDA?
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Interview: Alfonso Albaisa, Vice President, Nissan Design Europe
Alfonso Albaisa is a designer with an unusual background. This 42 year old Cuban-American, who first studied fine art at the University of Florida, transferred to Pratt Institute in New York, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in industrial design. He also studied at CCS for one year, before ...
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Who's Where: Alfonso Albaisa appointed Vice President of Nissan Design Europe
Click for larger imagesAlfonso Albaisa has been appointed vice president of Nissan Design Europe (NDE) located in Paddington, London, effective April 1, 2007. Albaisa replaces Satoru Tai, who will return to Japan.In his new role, the 42-year-old Cuban-American will head a team of more than 50 international designers, modelers and ...
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Who's Where: Alfonso Albaisa appointed Nissan Design Director for Global Passenger Vehicles and Electric Vehicles
Alfonso Albaisa has been appointed as Nissan's Design Director for Global Passenger Vehicles and Electric Vehicles, a job that will see him move back to Japan.
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Driven: Nissan Qashqai
On our increasingly congested roads and in our road rage aware society, there is a silent majority of drivers who don't want to feel they are being brow beaten by other road users. They don't want to make an aggressive or otherwise conspicuous statement with their car, they just want ...
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Who's Where: Edgar Heinrich appointed Head of Design, BMW Motorrad
Edgar Heinrich, formally Vice President Product Design with Bajaj Auto Ltd, has been appointed Head of Design for BMW Motorrad. He fills the role left by the resignation of David Robb, reportedly following a disagreement with a co-worker. Heinrich will report directly to Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW ...
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Subaru SHARC wins LA Design Challenge [w/video]
Subaru's SHARC (Subaru Highway Automated Response Concept) has been named the winner of the 2012 LA Design Challenge.
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Design Development: Subaru SHARC
The design team wanted the project to be fun as well as innovative. Designer Masashi Kaneda developed Cohen's fictional protagonist, Chief Kamehamaha, as an almost superhero-like figure. How the Chief would interact with the SHARC was next on the agenda, and so they decided to develop Subaru's current EyeSight technology. ...
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Design Development: Subaru SHARC
The 2012 LA Design Challenge, held annually for the past nine years, involves design studios from all over the world. The brief was one of the most interesting yet - to create a highway patrol vehicle that meets the challenges of a specific region's transportation and societal conditions in the ...
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
After lunch the attendees gathered to hear the final session of the conference - a conference round up hosted by Chris Bangle. A panel consisting of Cathy Huang, Professors Li Chi-Fu and Bumsuk Lim, Gustavo Guerra, Klaus Busse, Massimo Prando and Zhang Fan, design director at GAC Engineering, discussed the ...
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
Cathy Huang, president of CBI China Bridge, chaired the day's second session, which looked at how far vehicle designers' roles extend into other areas of the brand.
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
Interior Motives is the print magazine from Car Design News, which focuses on the design development of vehicle interiors.