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Trend Analysis: 2013 Techtextil Trade Fair
This report was first published by WSGN-homebuildlife on 24 June 2013.
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2014 GAF Boccaro Cup Car Design Contest
The Global Automotive Forum has announced its first car design competition. Called the Boccaro Cup Car Design Contest, the competition is now open, and the deadline for submissions is 15 August.
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Nissan's second-generation Qashqai unveiled in London
The second-generation Nissan Qashqai has been revealed at an event in London.
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Eduard AckermannMercedes-Benz Progred/Le Mans Show Car 2040This two-wheeled Le Mans racer uses ground-effects aerodynamics and a gyroscope to lift its rear end, reducing rolling resistance and adding a new dynamic to motor racing. Efficiency is key to the design, which has a very small frontal area created by its open ...
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Artem SazonovSaab Comove'Don't own, share' is the millennial mantra that inspired this car-sharing project. In the same way this generation is comfortable with the model of streaming rather than owning music, so many feel purchasing a car both unachievable and unnecessary. But the lack of familiarity and an emotional connection ...
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Pforzheim University's graduation shows are always extremely well attended by designers. They are predominantly from manufacturers around its location in Stuttgart, but the show also draws those those based further afield in Germany and, beyond that, wider Europe.
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Designer Interviews: Ola Stenegard, head of vehicle design, BMW Motorrad
CDN Who makes up your bike team?OS My team is 10 to 12 people, depending on how many projects we have running, so every designer is entirely responsible for at least one production bike. I have three senior designers, one does four- and six-cylinder engine bikes, another all the boxer ...
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Designer Interviews: Ola Stenegard, head of vehicle design, BMW Motorrad
You probably won't catch BMW Motorrad's head of vehicle design Ola Stenegard wearing a lightweight scarf and a suit, as beloved of many car designers. The 43-year old Swede - who learned to weld at seven - is more about tattoos, earrings and leather biker jackets.
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Designer Interviews: Nelly Ben Hayoun, experience designer
CDN What drove you into space, and what keeps you fascinated with it?
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Designer Interviews: Nelly Ben Hayoun, experience designer
CDN How do people want to feel? What reaction do they want to have?
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Designer Interviews: Nelly Ben Hayoun, experience designer
This article was first published on WGSN-homebuildlife, the online trend forecasting and product design tool provides analysis, research and global creative intelligence for the fashion and apparel industry.
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SAIC's Mobiliant wins 2013 LA Design Challenge
SAIC has been revealed as the winner of this year's LA Design Challenge.
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SkyTran to trial maglev two-seater transport system in Israel
California-based skyTran has signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to build a test version of its patented maglev transport network.
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Designer Interviews: Satoru Tai, Nissan VP Creative Box & design director product design
CDN Did the Cube's success change your career?ST I was transferred to product planning in 2002 after that, as we had been designing and at the same time planning too. I did the 2003 Jikoo and Redigo concepts [as a planner] before Shiro asked me to go to Nissan's European ...
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Designer Interviews: Satoru Tai, Nissan VP Creative Box & design director product design
Satoru Tai is not your average car designer. As executive design director of Nissan's product design department - in charge of future show cars and production EVs and Kei cars - as well as vice-president of its advanced Creative Box studio in Tokyo, he gets to do a lot of ...
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Top international design talent to descend on Czech Republic for AutoDesign Prague 2013
The automotive design industry will head to Prague on 26 September to speak at the AutoDesign Prague 2013 conference at the National Technical Library.
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Concept Car of the Week: Hyundai HCD-1 (1992)
After a difficult start to the '80s, Hyundai thought of a new strategy to penetrate the American market and to compete with the industry leaders - Japanese manufacturers such as Toyota being the primary target. It came back in 1990 and set up the Hyundai California Design Center to develop ...
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RCA's Dale Harrow: Car design more crucial than ever
As well as serving as head of the RCA's Vehicle Design Program, Dale Harrow is also a Financial Times columnist. His latest piece suggests the car is in the process of change, and at a rate beyond that undertaken in its first century of existence.
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Concept Car of the Week: Lincoln Sentinel (1996)
After a decade of the rounded forms of bio-design, car manufacturers worldwide wondered what the next big trend would be. Ford's answer appeared in 1995 with the breathtaking GT90 that inaugurated the experimental 'Edge Design' era, defined by its use of precise edges, tight lines and sharp graphics. The following ...