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Interior Motives Design Awards 2013
Earlier this evening, the world's top designers and automotive journalists gathered together at the Moon13 club in Frankfurt to watch sponsors Ford and Volkswagen reveal the 2013 Interior Motives Student Design of the Year: ‘Audi O Concept' by Nir Siegel, Cherica Haye and Hanchul Lee of London's Royal College of ...
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Schools Award and CDN Design Schools League Table
We have included in the index only those schools which have produced at least three finalists over the period, and the 14 results should obviously be viewed in relation to the number of students from whom the index score is drawn.
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Schools Award and CDN Design Schools League Table
Schools as well as students are being recognized in this year's CDN-Interior Motives Student Design Awards, just launched, with a special award being introduced for the school whose students have the most success in the competition.
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Design Contest: Interior Motives Design Awards 2014 launched
Registration for the twelfth Interior Motives Student Design Awards has now opened. As always, this year's contest aims to shed light on the most talented student designers from around the world.
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CDN Design Awards 2006 announced
Earlier this month we asked Car Design News readers to vote for their favorite car design from 2006 and we've had a great response, with over a thousand responses in a two week period. While other 'Best Design' awards are largely made up of votes from journalists, the difference here ...
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Design Review: Alfa 8C Competizione
Sitting inside the car on platted leather bucket seats, the view ahead is the classic sports car view of front fenders and the top of the high set steering wheel, framed by the relatively upright and curving inward A-pillar. The interior design identity is simple with none of the extraneous ...
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Design Review: Alfa 8C Competizione
The car designs that win competitions, that people in bars discuss, that even car designers describe as their favourite, are mostly sports cars - the exterior forms of sports cars. Whilst people describe the design of a kettle or toaster in terms of ergonomics or how evenly it toasts a ...
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Design Development: BMW Z4
With its roof down, a roadster's interior becomes part of its exterior, so it was particularly important that there was an empathy between interior and exterior design development, afforded in part at BMW by its designers doing both exterior and interior work (the Z4 exterior designer was also responsible for ...
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Design Development: BMW Z4
The Z3 launched in 1995 changed all that. The Z3 was designed to compete at the top end of the new sports car market sector defined by the Mazda MX5/Miata, and sold at more than 50 times the rate of its predecessors.
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Design Review: Renault Nepta concept
What particularly distinguishes Nepta are its exterior surfaces that subtly move across the car in gentle sweeping forms that adjoin at crisp but shallow ridges. There are subtle waves across and down the trunk top, as well as on the front fender upper surfaces where secondary lights sit. A form, ...
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Design Review: Renault Nepta concept
It was revival time for Renault at this year's Paris Motor Show. Not only was there the important debut of the first reiteration of its iconic Twingo, but Renault Design also indicated its intention to re-enter the premium segment with a four-seat cabriolet - an architecture which itself is ...
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Interview: Patrick le Quement, Senior Vice President, Corporate Design, Renault
Patrick le Quement is one of the most pre-eminent car designers in the world. His professional background started at Simca, followed with 17 years at Ford and a brief stint at Volkswagen before taking the top design job at Renault in 1987 answering directly to the chairman. In 1995 he ...
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Designer Interview: Adrian van Hooydonk, Director Design, BMW Cars
How do you know what BMW customers are yearning for in three or five years' time?
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Designer Interview: Adrian van Hooydonk, Director Design, BMW Cars
BMW's design vocabulary has widened considerably over the last 5 years. Do you think it will continue to widen or should it now evolve and mature?
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Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2007
The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is held on the historic 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links with auxiliary events taking place throughout California's Monterey Peninsula. The Lodge at Pebble Beach has hosted the Concours since the event's inception in 1950. This year, vehicles from 30 states and 12 ...
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Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2007
On the neighboring lawn glistened 'Sparks before the Storm', a collection of open cars from the late 1930s. As the public's show star, the Bugatti 57C was also voted best here. First built in 1939, its body was replaced thirty years later before an extensive restoration in 2002 reunited the ...
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Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2007
The torn mountains shrouding Lake Como outside Milan have been backdrop to the world's most special cars since 1929. As one of the most exclusive events on the calendar, Villa d'Este has an unhurried atmosphere that invites attendees to idle by the warm contours of old and new metal to ...
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Interview: Chris Bangle, BMW Group Design Director
CDN: What is the BMW Group's unique approach to design?
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Interview: Chris Bangle, BMW Group Design Director
Chris Bangle became BMW Group Design Director in 1992. A cartoonist and devoted family man, he has since been both lauded and castigated for being the pioneer of BMW's current design language.