All Designers articles – Page 34
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
Small car design has typically fallen into several well-established directions: firstly, there's the ‘over-cute' look of many Japanese K-cars, then there's the ‘reinvented icon' approach typified by the Mini or Fiat 500. Next is the rounded 1-box ‘fun' approach adopted by the Smart ForTwo or Mitsubishi ‘i'. The new Toyota ...
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Design Review: Nissan Ellure concept
As is the case with many concepts, the Ellure does not sport typical door hinges. Instead, it opts for rear-seat accessible suicide hinges, much like those of the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Unlike the Rolls however, the Ellure does not exert engineering effort to disguise the substantial hinges that are necessary on ...
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Design Review: Nissan Ellure concept
Nissan's LA Auto show headliner was the Ellure, a design concept aimed at giving a common language to the brand's sedan range. The Ellure is explicitly a hybrid, from the prominent moniker on the door panels to the styling unmistakably crafted around directing airflow. As a design concept it demonstrates ...
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Design Essay: Lexus L-finesse - Sense and Sensuality
Founded as a loom-making company over a century ago, Toyoda then became the Toyota of today that also owns the Lexus and Daihatsu brands. Its history in manufacturing has given the world 'just in time' and 'quality circle' production strategies, models for efficiency that have been adopted the world over. ...
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Essay: From Twist to Touch
The Apple iPhone has set off ripples throughout the world of product design because of its revolutionary touchscreen display. It's the first display that is "multi-touch" - it recognizes more than one finger touch at a time. This allows for some novel means of control, such as spreading two fingers ...
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Climb through the generous door openings and into the floating bench seat and it's clear that interior designer Stéphane Maïore and color and material designer, Stéphanie Petit had a very clear vision of the theme.
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Which was the last Renault you loved? Not merely liked, but felt a strong emotional connection to? The Avantime? Megane II? Whichever it is, it's unlikely that many would cite a design from la Regie's current range.
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Ford Shelby GR-1 concept shown at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Click for larger imagesCarroll Shelby Ford is taking the occasion of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to unveil the Ford Shelby GR-1 concept, calling the new sports car a salute to 'performance art'. The GR-1 is a uniquely emotional American sports car design that makes a bold statement about Ford's ...
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
The rear seat is formed from a single S-shaped curve across the car and is wonderfully inviting, reminding one of a comfy armchair. The Zoe also features a 'Pass' system - a small iPod-like control pad that stores a selection of interior ambiences to suit driver tastes. One click can ...
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
Renault is renowned for searching for the 'Next Big Thing' in car concepts but until now it seemed a bit slow to join the wave of '3-Metre' cars that many believe are the next big vogue in Europe. The Opel Trixx and Fiat Trepiuno concepts featured at Geneva last year ...
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Design Review: Kia Pop concept
Contrasting with the dark chrome body sides is the gloss-white front panel, onto which the minimal DRG is rendered. While not entirely benign, the facial expression is a welcome relief - and much more appropriate for the car's intended city environment - from the overt aggression that could be seen ...
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Design Review: Kia Pop concept
There is a connection between a specific country and certain typologies of car. True muscle cars only come from the USA; exotic sports cars really have to be Italian; and, having invented the layout (front wheel drive) that made the type practical, France is synonymous with the small car.
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Design Review: MG Zero concept
Other highlights include a witty glass roof featuring a see-through abstracted union flag motif that casts interesting reflections and shadows across the interior and the use of a lozenge pattern that is repeated throughout the car, including a red graphic in the rocker panels, the texture in the lower grille ...
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Design Review: MG Zero concept
SAIC has a fairly standard strategy with their new model launches: a showcar concept model is shown 12 months before the start of production as a way of introducing the press and sales teams to the impending new model. The latest MG Zero concept shown at Beijing in April follows ...
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Design Review: Honda Ridgeline
But now, even this last bastion of US brand dominance is under threat and the Honda Ridgeline is leading the attack.Debuting at last month's Detroit Auto Show, at 5258mm long, 1930mm wide and 1778mm tall the Ridgeline is very slightly smaller than America's best selling vehicle, the Ford F-150 pick-up ...
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Design Review: Hyundai Curb concept
The Hyundai Curb (internal codename: HCD-12) is the twelfth concept designed at the company's California Design Center.
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ArticleDesigner Interview: Lowie Vermeersch (Part 2)
This evolution should be enough of a reason not to start an independent car design studio anymore, except that Lowie doesn’t function that way: “It’s a fact that any car designer who starts his own studio for personal fame is in for a nice series of frustrations. The era of independent car design heroes like Bertone, Giugiaro or Gandini is clearly over. In the ‘60s or ‘70s, when design wasn’t…
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ArticleDesigner Interview: Lowie Vermeersch (Part 1)
Car Design News interviews Belgian designer Lowie Vermeersch
