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Why Chinese design is gaining visibility on the global stage
With access to global trends and the means to travel, the latest generation of Chinese designers has been exposed to a wide variety of cultural references. Furniture, lighting and home accessories take historical cues, but aren't constrained by tradition and convention. Reinterpreting traditional Chinese paradigms opens up Chinese design to ...
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Why Chinese design is gaining visibility on the global stage
China's appetite for design is growing, particularly among the country's rapidly expanding middle class. According to a study by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, by 2022 more than 75 per cent of China's urban consumers will earn $9,000 to $34,000 a year. In 10 years' time, China's new ...
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Why Chinese design is gaining visibility on the global stage
This report was first published by our partners, WGSN-homebuildlife, on 31 July.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Ferrari Modulo (1970)
Considering how radical and visionary the Ferrari Modulo still looks today, it is easy to understand the impact it had on car culture when it was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show 45 years ago
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Who's Where?: Maximilian Missoni becomes vice president exterior design at Volvo
Maximilian Missoni has been promoted to the position of vice president of exterior design at Volvo Cars. He replaces Fedde Talsma, who has elected to leave the company.
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Who's Where: Todd Willing returns to Australia to head Ford's Melbourne studio
Todd Willing has headed back to Australia as design director for Ford Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne. Willing has worked for Ford design since 2003, and will report directly to Moray Callum, Ford's vice president of design. He returns to Melbourne following stints at Ford's facilities in Cologne, Germany; Dunton, ...
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Atom Punk and Ocean Punk by Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens, one of Britain's most well-known and sought-after automotive and industrial designers. For more of his insights head over to his Facebook page.
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First Sight: Mercedes-AMG GT
“If I was to buy any sports car that wasn't a Mercedes, it'd be a Porsche 911,” says Mercedes' head of design, Gorden Wagener. “But when you see the two cars together, we think ours has the edge.”
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Concept Car of the Week: Lincoln Continental (2002)
Lincoln's latest Continental concept has just made its debut at the New York Auto Show. Its looks have already caused quite a stir within the design community, and it remains to be seen how this will affect the production model due next year. The concept resurrects the Continental nameplate that ...
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We invited Peter Stevens to the Shanghai Motor Show. This is what he thought.
Last week the whole Car Design News team decamped to China for the 2015 edition of the Shanghai Motor Show. Joining us was Peter Stevens, who presented our Car Design Awards China ceremony, as well as scouring the world's largest exhibition for interesting insights for us. Here are his thoughts:
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Building the brand identity of Brazil's home-grown off-roader
Ford's South American design studio in Camaçari, Brazil, has already completed two 'One Ford' global projects, the EcoSport crossover, and the Ka compact. But the replacement for the Troller T4, a basic 4x4 solely for the Brazilian market, has presented a different challenge to the design team led by Joao ...
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2015 Car Design News-GM-SGMW Interactive Design Competition is now open for entries
CDN-SGMW-GM互动设计竞赛现已向中国高校大学生全面启动。两位获胜者将获得在通用汽车上海技术中心进行三个月有偿实习的机会。你的任务是为未来中国现代化家庭设计一个全新而多用途的宝骏乘用车。跟以往一样，竞赛是以互动形式由专业汽车设计师和网友们提供指导，并帮助你拓展设计。第一阶段是要完成构思与初步创意草图；而在第二阶段，你将明确并完善你的设计方向，并以震撼的视觉效果展现出来。参赛截止日期为2015年1月16日。
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Lancia Stratos Zero (1970)
The Lancia Stratos Zero took the 1970 Turin Motor Show by storm, propelling designer Marcello Gandini into superstardom
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Jean-François Venet 1946-2015
French car design has just lost one of its greatest craftsmen, Jean-François Venet.
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2015 Car Design News-GM-SGMW Interactive Design Competition is now open for entries
The CDN-SGMW-GM Interactive Competition is now open for entries in China with two, three-month, paid internships up for grabs at the General Motors Tech Center in Shanghai.
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'Getting the details right is the real pleasure in designing’ by Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens, one of Britain's most well-known and sought-after automotive and industrial designers. For more of his insights head over to his Facebook page.
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Where have all the cool buses gone? By Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens, one of Britain's most well-known and sought-after automotive and industrial designers. For more of his insights head over to his Facebook page.
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Who's Where: CCS appoints Sally Erickson Wilson as chair of new color and materials design MA
The College for Creative Studies (CCS) has appointed Sally Erickson Wilson as associate professor and chair of its new Master of Fine Arts degree program in Color and Materials Design.
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Bentley future design competition held at Hongik University, South Korea
Bentley has held its first design competition in collaboration with a university outside the UK. Director of design, Luc Donckerwolke, and head of exterior and advanced design, Sangyup Lee, tasked students at Hongik University in Seoul with designing a Bentley that would be released in 2040.
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Sketching on the Galaxy Note and iPad, a new design method or a diversion? By Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens, one of Britain's most well-known and sought-after automotive and industrial designers. For more of his insights head over to his Facebook page.