All Designers articles – Page 33
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ArticleFord 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 five days to drive across, has half the population density and a fifth the fuel cost of Europe. But perhaps in the future they will make less sense.
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ArticleDesigning the virtual car. A real or imagined product? By Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens relives the process of creating a supercar for the (now retro) television show 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
The designer of the McLaren F1 looks back at the car’s famous Le Mans win back in 1995
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ArticleAlfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale – 1967/69
Exploring the work of one of Italy’s most original car designers, Franco Scaglione
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ArticleThe Designers Pt3 – Ian Callum, Jaguar
Ian Callum speaks to Car Design News about the rising the importance of interior design at Jaguar
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ArticleThe celebrity railroad designers by Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens examines how design defined the railroad expansion of the 1930s
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ArticleThe Designers Pt5 – Aamer Mahmud, Coventry University
Read on for 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
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 ...
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Design Review: Nissan Land Glider concept
In profile, the Land Glider is most car-like with a typical 1/3 DLO to bodyside ratio and two conventional side opening doors - it is this feature which is perhaps the biggest compromise. An airplane-style lift up canopy was considered but dismissed as too difficult to access compared to a ...
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Design Review: Nissan Land Glider concept
"Imagine the sensation of flying along the ground, steering and leaning from left to right in near silence, using little energy like gliding or skiing," the Land Glider's Associate Chief Designer, Takahama Shu, describes. "If this sensation is portrayed in the design then we have been successful."
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Design Essay: Cars and Architecture
Other references to building architecture in car design are harder to spot, though the 2005 Bertone Villa concept is an evidently named example. The design of the Villa made big play of egress, afforded by large doors swinging upwards to give occasion to entering and leaving the vehicle. The Renault ...
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Design Essay: Cars and Architecture
Shuffling past boxes to get to the car in the morning, we seldom give too much thought to the garage beyond tidying it. But without cars there would be no garages, and rarely do we stop to consider the broader affiliation cars have with their surrounding structures. In the 1920s, ...