All Designers articles – Page 32
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Fiat Trepiùno concept - Design Review
Mar 26, 2004 – Fifty years ago in austere post war Europe there were four peoples’ cars, newly launched or about to be launched: Ferdinand Porsche’s Volkswagen Beetle of 1945, Pierre Boulanger’s Citroen 2CV of 1948, Dante Giacosa’s Fiat 500 Nuovo of 1957 and Alec Issigonis’s Austin Mini of 1959. ...
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Ford Focus - Design Review
Oct 20, 2004 – Car design, as everything, is relative. How we read a car's design is relative to the world that surrounds it - specifically other cars and in particular those of the same type, its siblings and predecessor. Seeing the new Ford Focus in the flesh at Paris ...
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Porsche Boxster - Design Review
Oct 28, 2004 – The Boxster has been a wonderful success story for Porsche since its introduction in 1996. No fewer than 160,000 have been sold in the intervening eight years and this second generation model aims to update the car in terms of both looks and technical features. The ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz CST Vision B
Dec 13, 2004 – Nearly three years ago Mercedes presented the Vision R Grand Sports Tourer concept in Detroit which heralded a new direction for Mercedes production cars. The GST was a 'crossover' vehicle with the four wheel drive and muscular design identity of an SUV, the three rows of ...
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Ford SYNus Design Review
America is famous for its big cars. For a non-American, to think 'American car' is to think big finned late-fifties sedan, huge cop car or New York cab, or pick-ups that are longer than a long wheelbase Mercedes S-class. Big cars make sense in a country that takes four or ...
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ArticleDesigning the virtual car. A real or imagined product? By Peter Stevens
Reliving the process of creating a supercar for Captain Scarlet
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ArticleIcons or bygones, what is the case for new old cars? by Peter Stevens
Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of retro design, from the London taxi, to the BMW Hommage cars and more...
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ArticleWhen does a ‘New Car’ become an ‘Old Car’ and does it matter? By Peter Stevens
McLaren F1 designer looks back at the car's famous Le Mans win back in 1995
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ArticleAlfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale – 1967/69 by Peter Stevens
Exploring the work of one of Italy's most original car designers, Franco Scaglione
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The Designers Pt3 – Ian Callum, Jaguar
Callum on the rise of the importance of interior design at Jaguar
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ArticleThe celebrity railroad designers by Peter Stevens
How design defined the railroad expansion of the 1930s
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The Designers Pt5 – Aamer Mahmud, Coventry University
An educator's take on the current state of car design
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ArticlePatrick le Quément, 22 years at Renault by Peter Stevens
How le Quément revolutionized Renault design
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ArticleThe competition grows among the celebrity railroad designers by Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens
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ArticleCyber Punk and Deco Punk, two very different sub-cultures by Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens continues his exploration of different punk subcultures, this time with a look at Cyber Punk and Deco Punk
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Design Review: Nissan GT-R
One of the more successful elements of the design are the pronounced front fender boxes with extraction vents in the rear surface. These are beautifully modeled and amazing pressings in themselves, yet there is a mismatch to the softer character of the front end, particularly the front corners with the ...
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Design Review: Nissan GT-R
In the US, the Corvette has earned a place in the nation's heart over the last 54 years and six generations, and in the process has become the defining American sports car. The Porsche 911 has done a similar thing in Germany (if not Europe) where it has evolved over ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
The Ferrari Enzo and Edonis are two recent designs that demonstrate how extravagant and dynamic supercar form can get, with a lot of strong surface changes, large air intake and outlet apertures and discontinuous forms. These give both designs a brutalism which in combination with their proportions makes their overall ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
Supercar is a strange term amongst the lexicon of car design - a combination of two words that will never reach the common vocabulary in the way that 'sports car' and 'estate car' have. It is also an ambiguous car type; 'super' in the context of cars might mean many ...