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Design Review: Faurecia Premium Attitude
The rear seat features innovative design details Faurecia calls 'invisible premium', such as a lower seating area that hides a center armrest which can be raised to a curved bridge-like position at the push of a button, and a 'relax function' in the base cushion that adjusts itself for firmness, ...
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Design Review: Faurecia Premium Attitude
Faurecia is a Tier 1 automotive supplier, usually outfitting vehicles built by General Motors, the Volkswagen Group, BMW and other well-known vehicle manufacturers with seats, doors, cockpits, front ends, acoustic packages and exhaust systems. This time however, they've decided to build a car to showcase their latest products, including innovative ...
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ArticleWinners announced for Car Design Awards China 2010
The winners of the inaugural Car Design Awards China 2010 were announced at an awards ceremony on 21 April in Beijing, just prior to Auto China.Automotive design directors and the design press gathered at automotive design studio CH-Auto to celebrate the achievements of the next generation of car designers. Presenters Edward Wong (China Central Academy of Fine Arts) and Kumo Chiu (Idea Dao Design)
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Winners announced for Car Design Awards China 2010 - 3
Chair of the judging panel, Peter Stevens, the designer behind the McLaren F1 road car and Lotus Elan among others, was joined by Simon Loasby, Director of Design for Volkswagen China, as well as Cai Qian, Head of the Shanghai Design Studio, Shanghai Volkswagen, and Ding Yangfeng, Head of Design Team for FAW-Volkswagen; Friedhelm Engler and Cao Min, respectively Design Director and Director of Adv
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Winners announced for Car Design Awards China 2010 - 2
Best Lifestyle Interior (Sponsor: Alcantara) Chevrolet ‘C3’ - Kaiji Pu and Yuzhou Ling (Southeast University / Donghua University)
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Who's Where: Bryan Nesbitt appointed VP of Design for GM North America
General Motors is looking to inject some newfound flair into its North American product lineup. Effective June 1, Bryan Nesbitt, currently Executive Director of Design at General Motors Europe will become Vice President of Design for North America and relocate to the company's technology headquarters in Warren, Michigan.
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Design Review: Ford Iosis concept
It's not often that a concept car is used so explicitly as a statement of intent from a brand's new design director, but that's just what this new concept car from Ford of Europe is doing. As Executive Director of Design at Ford of Europe since February last year, Martin ...
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Interior Motives Europe Conference 2008
'Zero Impact Vehicle design' was the topic at the start of the second day of the conference, chaired by Interior Motives editor Euan Sey. Anthony Lo, Director of Advanced Design at GM Europe started the two part session by speaking about GM's E-Flex architectures and the Opel Flextreme, a vehicle ...
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Interior Motives Europe Conference 2008
Interior Motives magazine hosted its fourth annual design conference at the Santo Stefano Hotel in Turin, Italy - the official World Design Capital 2008 - from June 17 to 19 this year. A melting pot for innovative ideas, the conference featured enlightening presentations from some of the world's leading designers, ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
Design legend and visiting professor to the Royal College of Art, Peter Stevens, was as entertaining as ever, urging students to become better all-rounders, stating, "making the design is not enough, it's about selling the design too". He also implored designers to question the status quo more often in order ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
After a boat trip down the Huangpo River in the evening of the first day to give delegates and speakers a chance to mix more informally, it was soon time to get back on with the second day of the conference. This saw a speaker and panel line-up including experts ...
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Design Review: Ford Iosis concept
Many of these elements are developed from those within the SAV, as are some of the other details that will likely become part of the portfolio of production Ford design signifiers; the faceted lower line to front and rear screens, the deep side swage line (not wholly dissimilar to the Mercedes Benz B-class), the dynamic sweep and kick up to the DLO, the inverted trapezoidal lower grille, the graph
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 1
Interior Motives returned once more to the exciting city of Shanghai for its second China design conference, themed ‘China: Changing the landscape of car design'. Held straight after the first Shanghai auto show press day - a day topped off by the Car Design Night, attended by some 300 or ...
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Interior Motives China Conference 2010: Day 2
Session 7: Designs for China's Market Segments - Part Two