All CDN Events articles – Page 6
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Interior Motives China Conference 2013 - Day One
Session two explored the simple concept of ‘back to basics'. Starting with the provocation that ‘the days of simply adding extra legroom to attract Chinese buyers are drawing to an end. What features should be introduced - or taken away - to cater to the specific needs of China's different ...
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Interior Motives China Conference 2013 - Day One
This year's Interior Motives China Conference got off to a great start yesterday in its new home at the Hilton Hongqiao in Shanghai. The theme of this year's event is 'Technology and Tradition; Old meets new in modern-day China.' Interior Motives is the print magazine from Car Design News, which ...
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CDN and GM launch new interactive competition for students in North America
Car Design News is pleased to announce the launch of this year's Car Design News-GM interactive design competition, a collaboration with GM and our partners, Alcantara, CGT, Pace and SRG Global. GM is offering five students a paid internship (with housing included) at its studios in Warren, Michigan. One ...
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CDN-GM Interactive Design Contest 2012 finalists announced
The CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition judges have announced the winners of the competition's first phase ahead of the launch of the second phase.
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
After lunch the attendees gathered to hear the final session of the conference - a conference round up hosted by Chris Bangle. A panel consisting of Cathy Huang, Professors Li Chi-Fu and Bumsuk Lim, Gustavo Guerra, Klaus Busse, Massimo Prando and Zhang Fan, design director at GAC Engineering, discussed the ...
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
Cathy Huang, president of CBI China Bridge, chaired the day's second session, which looked at how far vehicle designers' roles extend into other areas of the brand.
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Interior Motives China Conference Day Two
Interior Motives is the print magazine from Car Design News, which focuses on the design development of vehicle interiors.
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 2
Chris Bangle was back on stage to conclude the conference with a panel discussion that included some of the conference's previous speakers as well as the winner of the 2014 Car Design Awards China, Guo Jiayi, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, to represent Chinese students.
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 2
Sooshin Choi, provost and professor of design, College for Create Studies, started the second luxury-themed session of the conference by asking: "Is luxury a question of material, shape or technology? Or is it a more philosophical question?"
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 2
Human-machine interface is clearly the hottest area in an otherwise fairly static car design space today. The explosion in global connectivity and smartphone usage, combined with a level of ambivalence towards a car industry that has failed to react to the greatest challenge in its history, has left everything on ...
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 2
Chris Bangle gave those contemplating a lie-in after the first day of the CDN-Interior Motives conference the incentive to grab a front-row seat for his opening keynote. Thought-provoking, clear and inspirational as ever, we will cover Bangle's 'State of the Union: Time for Deep Car Design?' presentation in a separate ...
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
The final session of day one was the first of two dedicated to the idea of what represents luxury today.
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
David Muyres, executive director of global product innovation at Johnson Controls, explored the potential benefits that autonomous cars may bring. His top five concerns for the future of the automobile, from improving the quality of time spent in a car to the physical space your car occupies when it's not ...
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
The seventh edition of CDN's Interior Motives China Conference has just taken place in Beijing, ahead of the world's most important motor show and in the world's largest car market. The theme of this year's event, ‘Mobilising the new urban landscape' is extremely pertinent to anyone who has experienced the ...
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Interior Motives Europe Conference 2008
'Zero Impact Vehicle design' was the topic at the start of the second day of the conference, chaired by Interior Motives editor Euan Sey. Anthony Lo, Director of Advanced Design at GM Europe started the two part session by speaking about GM's E-Flex architectures and the Opel Flextreme, a vehicle ...
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Interior Motives Europe Conference 2008
Interior Motives magazine hosted its fourth annual design conference at the Santo Stefano Hotel in Turin, Italy - the official World Design Capital 2008 - from June 17 to 19 this year. A melting pot for innovative ideas, the conference featured enlightening presentations from some of the world's leading designers, ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
Design legend and visiting professor to the Royal College of Art, Peter Stevens, was as entertaining as ever, urging students to become better all-rounders, stating, "making the design is not enough, it's about selling the design too". He also implored designers to question the status quo more often in order ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
After a boat trip down the Huangpo River in the evening of the first day to give delegates and speakers a chance to mix more informally, it was soon time to get back on with the second day of the conference. This saw a speaker and panel line-up including experts ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 1
Interior Motives returned once more to the exciting city of Shanghai for its second China design conference, themed ‘China: Changing the landscape of car design'. Held straight after the first Shanghai auto show press day - a day topped off by the Car Design Night, attended by some 300 or ...
