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Design Review: Maserati GranTurismo
The GranTurismo is Maserati's new entry model that replaces the old 4200GT Coupe and Spyder models that date back to 1998. Although, at first sight this looks like a straightforward 2+2 coupe replacement for the older model, it is in fact a much larger car that is quite cleverly positioned ...
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Whos Where: David Wilkie joins Mindset
Design Director David Wilkie (center), with exterior designer Valery Muller (left), and interior designer Gwen Pennarun (right) at the unveiling of the Bertone BAT11 at AutoDesignNight Geneva 2008. Click for larger imagesMindset CommuterDesign Director, David Wilkie, announced last week that he is leaving Bertone to take up a full ...
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Milan Design Week 2008
There was a time when being a car designer was a designer's top aspiration but given the choice it now seems that ‘lifestyle' designers is more lucrative. Ken Okuyama, for example, fresh from his debut at the Geneva Motor Show, was at the Salone itself presenting his collection under the ...
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Milan Design Week 2008
Milan is a city entrenched in tradition and kept hidden behind closed doors, yet this privacy is always invaded by curious tourists from all over the world. Most notably, during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, when over 220,000 visitors came to Milan for a week dedicated to design, increasing the ...
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Who's Where: Ken Okuyama parts company with Pininfarina
Pininfarina, the Turin, Italy-based automotive styling house, has announced that its design director, Ken Okuyama, has left the company.In a tersely-worded statement Pininfarina said, "The Company's decision comes as a result of the various external activities Ken Okuyama was carrying out beyond his responsibilities within Pininfarina."Ken Okuyama had been Design ...
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Design Development: Citroen Revolte concept
The interior was designed in parallel with the exterior. Here, technology and luxury are juxtaposed together in a highly original manner. Designers Julien Famchon, Sébastien Buffet and Christophe Poinlane decided to reference Parisian theatres, employing plush red velvet on the rear lounge seat and soft, noble materials elsewhere. This is ...
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Design Development: Citroen Revolte concept
Citroën is currently marking 90 years of automotive success and, as part of that celebration, the company decided to take a bold approach for their latest showcar, the Revolte. Shown at Frankfurt last month, the Revolte aims to challenge the conventional image of small cars, and what car better embodies ...
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Pforzheim University Summer Show 2008
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 exterior and interior projects by the 4th, ...
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New Developments at Bertone
Stile Bertone - located in Susa Valley west of Turin, Italy - has seen a series of internal and external changes in the last two years. But even in this global economic crisis the famed design studio is steadfast and committed, remaining vibrant and alive.
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Design Development: Bertone BAT 11 concept
Regarding the theme of the design Muller continues "It was important to keep the covered front wheels - otherwise it just isn't a BAT car. In the sketching period I had this cool closed sculpture and I ‘just' had to find a way to guarantee the car could steer..! We ...
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Design Development: Bertone BAT 11 concept
La Sip nightclub Geneva, March 2008: the undoubted star of the Geneva Motor Show makes a surprise debut, not at the show but rather to an audience of the world's top car designers. For one American dentist, it was the best evening of his life.
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Design Review: Giugiaro Ferrari GG50 concept
The two notable aspects at the rear are that it appears narrower than before due to the greater plan shape and that the outer two classic Ferrari round lights are now larger than the inner two.Inside the car differs less from the 612, with a revised dashboard layout featuring a ...
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Design Review: Giugiaro Ferrari GG50 concept
Giorgetto Giugiaro, the world's most prolific car designer, has created concepts for every car brand from his native Italy, but for its most famous. This is a world first, a Ferrari by Giugiaro which, in his own words: "to mark 50 years of activity in the world of car design, ...
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Donato Coco announced as new Ferrari Design Chief
Donato Coco has been appointed as Ferrari's new Chief Designer, starting November 14. It is a move that fills the void left by Frank Stephenson, who earlier this year moved to head the Fiat, Lancia and Light Commercial Vehicles styling center.
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The Designers, Pt 11 - Sooshin Choi, College for Creative Studies
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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2012 Interior Motives School League Report
In addition to showcasing the talent of student designers, the 2012 Interior Motives Design Awards acknowledged for the first time the achievements of the schools that nurtured them with its inaugural ‘Most Successful School' award. After a close-run battle with Italy's Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) that was eventually decided ...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2013
Best Conceptual Interior (RTT)'Aerodynamique Utopie' - Denald Jasini, Istituto Europeo di Design (Italy)