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College Exhibition: Creapole 2013
Creapole's class of 2013 used its end-of-year degree show to research many emerging areas for improved mobility as well as alternative research into emerging cultural trends towards certain OEMs.
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Concept Car of the Week: Mercury El Gato (1970)
Of all the brands that marked American automobile history, Mercury had never been the most popular or the most loved, which ultimately led to its demise in 2011 when Ford chose to terminate the brand. To be fair only a handful of Mercury models are worth remembering: the 1950 Mercury ...
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Peter Stevens and Julian Thomson lead a discussion on the past, present and future of car design
Peter Stevens and Julian Thomson lead a discussion on the past, present and future of car design
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Tech Report: Technology Tools & Material Innovation
Instead of generating electricity through mechanical energy, the EWICON (Electrostatic WInd energy CONvertor) takes advantage of the electric charge of water droplets. Horizontal tubes release positively charged water particles into the air and as they are blown away, the voltage of the device changes and creates an electric field that ...
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Tech Report: Technology Tools & Material Innovation
Professor Andy Adamatzky, director of the Unconventional Computing Centre at UWE, is developing alternatives to silicon-based computers with the Physarium chip; a distributed biomorphic computer device built and operated by slime mould. This alternative computing approach connects the un-connectable, with slime moulds especially adept at finding solutions to tricky network ...
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Tech Report: Technology Tools & Material Innovation
Google and adidas have teamed up to create The Talking Shoe, a sneaker equipped with a speaker in the tongue. It tells you when to exercise and also sends stats and status updates to your smartphone and social media to keep you motivated.
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Tech Report: Technology Tools & Material Innovation
The growth of 3D printing technology over the past year has prompted an overhaul of 3D generation programs that normal users would have had great difficulty in using in the past. Autodesk's 123D Catch app helps to create 3D files using just a few photographs of an object or person ...
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Tech Report: Technology Tools & Material Innovation
This report was first published by our partners WSGN-homebuildlife on 10 May
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Who's Where: Nicolas Huet named PATAC exterior design director
Nicholas Huet has joined PATAC as exterior design director. Based in Shanghai, he will report directly to design director Holt Ware.
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Ghia Focus (1992)
As far back as the 1960s, Luigi Colani was preaching about organic design, and the 'biodynamic' forms that eventually became his signature. However, organic design didn't gain widespread popularity among car designers until the late 1980s and early '90s, and no car paid a greater tribute to nature and its ...
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Who's Where: RCA appoints Matteo Conti, Hannah Macmurray, Matthew Humphries and Cynthia Charwick to Vehicle Design faculty
Matteo Conti has been appointed senior tutor at the Royal College of Art in the latest of a series of new appointments.
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Design Contest: CDN-GM Interactive Design Contest 2013 finalists announced
The CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition finalists have been revealed ahead of the second phase's launch.
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Book Reviews: Car Design Europe, Car Design America, and Car Design Asia by Paolo Tumminelli
Author Paolo Tumminelli Publisher teNeues ISBNs Car Design America 978-3-8327-9596-2 Car Design Asia 978-3-8327-9538-2 Car Design Europe 978-3-8327-9459-0 Price £45/USD65 eachAvailable from www.teneues.com
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Marcello Gandini laments today's 'fake' concepts
Marcello Gandini has branded current concept cars fakes and "little more than maquettes" in an interview about Bertone's extensive concept car history.
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Land Rover previews Discovery Vision Concept ahead of NY show
Land Rover has given a first taste of the Discovery Vision Concept, which will debut at the New York International Auto Show later this month. The concept introduces the design themes that will define both the next generation of Freelander/LR2 and Discovery/LR4 models.
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Nissan's Google Glass rival keeps you connected to social media [w/Video]
Nissan will premiere a wearable heads-up display (HUD) at next week's Tokyo motor show.
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CDN announces judging panel for Car Design Awards 2010
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CDN announces judging panel for Car Design Awards 2010
阅读本文中文版本请点击这里 Judges have been announced for CDN's competition to develop design talent within China. In line with the competition's aims, the judging panel comprises both Western and Chinese design chiefs, who will be awarding prizes to student entrants which include placements at an international design school.