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Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2008 - The Cars
Milan, Italy, is home to the annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which in the last few years has been adequately dubbed Milan Design Week. What once used to be a fairground full of furniture design has become a city bustling with design events and innovation, and the auto industry's ...
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Design Development: Citroën C3 Picasso
In 2006, a see-through mock-up was shown to selected members of the public in a design clinic, which indicated that the design gave quite a polarized reaction: some loved it, some disliked it. "But, importantly" said Bonzanigo, "Young people were really enthused by it."
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Design Development: Citroën C3 Picasso
The new Citroën C3 Picasso - codename A58 - was born in 2004 to a clear 'cahier de charges', or 'brief' within the company: to design a small monospace on a current PSA platform with an unconventional design. The design was meant to immediately communicates the following aspects: unrestricted visibility ...
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Design Review: Citroën Hypnos concept
The interior - by designers Leighanne Earley and Francois Duris - is remarkable for its extremely complex interplay of 3D shapes, 2D graphics and the kaleidoscope of colors. The dominant theme is the four rainbow-colored shell-like seats in a staggered configuration and the controls that swivel out of the spiral ...
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Design Review: Citroën Hypnos concept
Here at CDN, we often lament the way that concept cars are all-too-often little more than pre-production prototypes of a forthcoming model, whereas in the past, they were often unashamed flights of fancy from the advanced design teams. But Citroën is an exception: their line of concepts stretching from 2002 ...
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Pforzheim University Summer Show 2007
Honda Project: 'A road car for Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello'
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Pforzheim University Summer Show 2007
Transportation Design students at Germany's Pforzheim University displayed their work in the school's summer degree show held in July, one of two graduation shows per year. The exhibition included work from graduating Diploma and Masters students, a Honda project by MA students, and a Renault exterior and interior project by ...
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International Transport Design Forum 2008
The biennial International Transportation Design Forum at Pforzheim University in Germany took place on July 10, with five international design schools coming together to present and discuss the latest work of their students. Held this year at the Congress Center Pforzheim, the Design Forum was held in conjunction with the ...
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Trouble at Bertone
Further complications arose when Barbara and Marie-Jeanne contested the sale and the transaction was deemed illegal. Reviglio's plan, which aimed to reduce the workforce to 305 and build 2,050 vehicles - including a light commercial vehicle distributed by Bertone as well as a version of a heavy truck and an ...
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Trouble at Bertone
Bertone has been undergoing financial strife in recent times, and now the future of the Group - and of the family-owned but independent Stile Bertone - hangs in an uncertain balance. Ironic really, as the vehicles created by the famed Italian coachbuilder were considered the epitome of idealist futurist automobiles.
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Exclusive: Bertone BAT 11 unveiled
For the first time in over 50 years, Bertone sadly did not have a stand at this year's Geneva Show, largely due to the severe financial difficulties facing the company. However, that didn't stop them making a surprise debut at the first AutoDesignNight last night in Geneva with the amazing ...
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Stile Bertone goes independent
Stile Bertone is to forge an independent future under a new managing director by splitting with its coachbuilding arm and following a new business strategy. The changes were rubber-stamped at a meeting in Turin on Monday. The new managing director is former Aprilia CEO Teresio Gaudio, who has been a ...
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The Designers, Pt.12 - Ed Welburn, General Motors
Car Design News launched its first-ever Car Design Review yearbook at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring the award-winning Production Car and Concept Car Designs of 2013.
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2005 Interior Motives Design award winners announced
The Interior Motives Design Awards were held on the second press day of the IAA in Frankfurt. Now in its third year, the awards ceremony is a regular fixture, inked into schedules as a chance to meet and make acquaintances. Each year, Interior Motives proposes a range of design briefs ...
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2006 Interior Motives Design Awards
Now into its fourth year, the annual design awards ceremony hosted by Interior Motives magazine was held on the second press day of the 2006 Paris Motor Show. Open to any registered school, the competition encourages students to submit their work in any of nine different categories, with the emphasis ...
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2007 Interior Motives Design Awards
Now in its fifth year, the annual design awards ceremony hosted by Interior Motives magazine was held on the second press day of the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. The awards are open to design students from around the world and are judged by senior designers from the world's leading carmakers ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2008
The second press day of the Paris motor show once again coincided with the annual Interior Motives Design Awards, a competition open to student designers around the world and now in its sixth year. A jury made up of high-ranking design professionals, including the likes of VW's Flavio Manzoni and ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2009
Best Eco Design (Retroconcept)'London Garden' - David Seesing, Miika Heikkinen, Mårten Wallgren (RCA)One of the more unusual entries to the competition, Seesing, Heikkinen and Wallgren's London Garden project presented an ingenious and elegantly resolved semi-electric bicycle as part of an integrated urban transportation solution.
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2010
Best Conceptual Exterior (SRG Global) 'thinq' - Anand Krishnan (Royal College of Art, UK)A strong contender for the overall award, Krishnan's ‘thinq' was one of the most conceptually advanced entries to this year's contest. Based on the assertion that by 2015 the electric vehicle will be forced to adopt slower ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2010
As the doors closed to the press at the Mondial de L'Automobile in Paris, the world's top designers and automotive journalists gathered at the nearby Palais des Congrès d'Issy to watch a new generation of designers celebrate success at the 2010 Interior Motives Design Awards. Never before has the automotive ...