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Interior Motives Design Awards 2011
Best Ergonomics (KISKA)'Group Dynamic' - Adam Phillips (Royal College of Art, UK)After a lot of debate, Phillips' design secured victory in the hotly contested Best Ergonomics category thanks to its mix of painstaking research and superb artwork. Described by Klaus Busse as "beautifully sketched, and tangible", Group Dynamic proposes an ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2009
Tonight, amidst the turmoil of a recession-struck auto industry, innovation and optimism shone through the work of a talented young group of international student designers at the seventh annual Interior Motives Design Awards. And none more so than that of the overall winner and newly crowned Interior Motives Student Designer of the Year 2009: Philip Woodman from Coventry University.
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2011
After months of waiting, the Interior Motives Student Designer of the Year 2011 has finally been announced. At a glamorous awards ceremony at Frankfurt's Cocoon Club earlier this evening, the world's top designers and automotive journalists gathered together to watch Felix Godard from Strate Collège in France sweep to victory ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2012
Best Innovative Interior (Peugeot)'Cross Evolution ' - Thomas Duhamel, Michael Denechere & Perrine Desmons (International School of Design, France)Packaging all of the high-tech components of the car into a single ‘technological block' that can be replaced/updated every three years was one of the ‘Cross Evolution' concept's clever touches, but it ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2012
At a glamorous awards ceremony at the Espace Clacquesin in Paris earlier this evening, the world's top designers and automotive journalists gathered together to watch sponsors Peugeot and Volkswagen reveal the 2012 Interior Motives Student Design of the Year: ‘Autopool' by Siavash Jafari Jozani and Mina Kasirifar from the University ...
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CDN Interior Motives Student Design Awards launched
Registration for the 10th Car Design News Interior Motives Student Design Awards has now opened. This is your chance to take part in one of the most important events in the design calendar, and to display your talent and fresh thinking to the world's top vehicle designers and automotive press.
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2013 launched
Registration for the eleventh Interior Motives Student Design Awards has now opened. This is your chance to take part in one of the most important events on the design calendar, and to display your talent and fresh thinking to the world's top vehicle designers and automotive press.
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Design Development: Saab Aero X concept
The full size exterior, for which much credit must also go to the modeler and Alias Designer Shoichiro Sasai, was signed off by Nesbitt and Lo in May after several outside dynoc reviews. The wheels, mirrors and exhaust designed and sketched in Alias by Daniel were also chosen in May ...
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ArticleDesign Development: Saab Aero X concept
‘The ultimate vision for the brand’. This was the simple brief for the Saab Aero X concept car shown at the Geneva motor show in 2006.
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Design Essay: Beauties, Beasts and Blades
Late last year Automobile Magazine ran an article on the Top 25 most beautiful cars ever made. Such lists are always controversial and this one garnered its fair share of letters in the following issue. But the list was striking for one particular reason: there were no cars on it ...
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Design Review: Renault Altica
However, it's the interior of this concept that impresses most. Accessed through butterfly doors, one is immediately struck by the sense of space provided by the lack of an IP. While it's not the first car to attempt this, the Altica offers one the nicest solutions yet to this idea. ...
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Design Review: Renault Altica
The shooting brake look is defined on the Altica by use of a long hood, long cabin with slim DLO and a fairly upright tail. The lower bodysides are elegant and sheer, with no obvious wheelarch lips and feature a twisted shoulderline running from near-horizontal over the front wheel to ...
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Designer Albrecht Graf Goertz dies
One of the world's legendary designers, Albrecht Graf Goertz, has died aged 92.
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Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2006
The term "Pebble Beach" refers to a long weekend of events over a full weekend that culminates at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. In an informal survey of those who attend and participate regularly, it seems unanimous that "Pebble" is the Show of Shows in this most elite arena of ...
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Car Design of the Year Awards 2007
Awards for CDN's Car Design of the Year 2007 were presented to the winning design teams during last week's Geneva Motor Show.
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2008 EyesOn Design Awards
I was once told that the EyesOn Design Awards was initially conceived as an award by which a vehicle would be judged by visually-impaired individuals. The prerequisite for winning was that the beauty of a vehicle would have to be determined solely through the medium of touch.
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Interview: Gert Hildebrandt, Director of Design, Mini
CDN: What achievements are you most proud of as a designer?
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Interview: Gert Hildebrandt, Director of Design, Mini
Gert Volker Hildebrandt has had an illustrious career within the german car industry for over twenty-five years, culminating in his current position as head of the Mini design team in Munich. Having originally studied at the RCA in London, he started his career at Opel in January 1981, where his ...
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Bertone ordered to auction six cars from museum collection
A selection of six cars forming part of the official museum collection of Carrozzeria Bertone will be auctioned off at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. Following the turbulence within the struggling design house in 2009 - including selling its manufacturing arm to the Fiat Group - the disbandment of the ...