All Designer Interviews articles
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ArticleDesigner Interviews: Amko Leenarts, Ford’s global director of interior design
Ford's global interiors director talks design in a deli in downtown Detroit
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ArticleMartin Longmore on the life of a contract designer, the challenge of motorcycle design and the real story behind the Audi TT
We talk to one of the most experienced, yet unrecognised, freelance designers
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ArticleQ&A with CDN Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Syd Mead
Exclusive interview by Car Design News with visual futurist Syd Mead on the secrets of his success in automotive design. An ArtCenter graduate, Mead’s take on what the future of mobility might look like has bled into popular culture though cult sci-fi films like Blade Runner, Tron (original), 2010 and Tomorrowland and his work still inspires designers around the world
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 18: Gilles Vidal, Peugeot
“We need to make sacrifices in the way we design things where you can’t see it, and really emphasise what the client can see”
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Article‘Don’t call it retirement’ – Ed Welburn on life after GM’s top design job
Q&A with the outgoing vice president of design at General Motors
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 17: Nicola Crea, Coventry University
“We don’t need traditional designers, we need people with new perspectives and open minds”
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 14: Richard Chung, Yanfeng
“It was a merger of two winners to create the biggest interiors company in the world”
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ArticleQ&A: Sonja Vandenberk, Ford Europe’s chief colour and materials designer, on how Vignale will evolve
Executing Vignale: How Ford intends to take its premium sub-brand forward
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 11: Gerry McGovern, Land Rover
“When I started out all I wanted to do was draw cars, but you get more respect from the business if you understand the bigger picture”
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 10: Anthony Lo, Renault
“In 2010 we had a clean sheet to do whatever we wanted, but now we need to play more carefully”
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 9: Lea Thomas Smith, Lear
“Whatever we come up with as a design, we have the ability to get produced”
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ArticleDesigner Interviews: Continental AG's HMI design team
Automotive supplier designers on how good design is essential when introducing new tech
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ArticleThe Designers Pt 5: Pratap Bose, Tata
Tata's head of design talks us through the challenges facing car design in the coming years
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ArticleDesign Development: Klaus Tritschler on how the Icon A5 was designed like a car
VP of design on how car design processes were used to create Icon’s new plane
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ArticleThe Designers Pt3: Seon-Ho Yeon, Kia
How ensuring the needs of the user are met is at the heart of Kia design
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ArticleDesigner Interview: Kazuo Suyama, Toyota Kikai project manager
Getting under the skin of Toyota's sci-fi, steampunk show car
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Designer Interviews: Sally Erickson Wilson, College for Creative Studies
Chair of colour and materials design programme at CCS talks the future of the automotive interior
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ArticleDesigner Interviews: Taru Lahti
Ghia Focus concept designer talks about his career at Ford, and a gift from grandma that started it all
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Q&A with Joel Piaskowski, Ford of Europe's director of design
Designer talks millennials, bringing a little of the US to Europe, and filling some big shoes