All Designers articles – Page 34
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
Manske showed Car Design News around the Joyster at Paris and explained how he had introduced these new Skoda design elements yet had also built upon the design vocabulary established by Ingenlath. Manske's previous position was at Volkswagen where he was responsible for the Iroc - which also debuted at ...
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
One of the big challenges most car brands in the European market are trying to tackle is to appeal to the youngest profile of car buyer. Sell a new car to a twenty-something and you are likely to sell them a car in their thirties, forties and fifties as well. ...
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Trends: Aero Wheels
The BBS rims used by Porsche's motorsport department during the late 1970s through to the mid-'80s often featured wheel covers which drew air into the wheel via a hidden turbine, helping to both cool the brakes and smooth out the airflow along the car's flanks. But the next generation of ...
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Trends: Aero Wheels
A quiet revolution is occurring right underneath our wheelarches. As 'efficiency' continues to be the buzzword of the automotive industry, so designers are seeking new ways - and rediscovering old ones - to convey the latest trend in their products.
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ArticleDesign Review: Ford Airstream Concept
The Airstream Concept is a futuristic crossover, supposedly capturing the sense of optimism and adventure conveyed in American aircraft, spacecraft and the streamlined shape of Airstream trailers. In some ways it follows a similar path to the Microbus concept that VW showed in 2001 but the styling and context here is purely American and less formal than the VW.
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Pavilion design glistens in Frankfurt
The architecture and scenic staging was the work of Berlin firm Blue Scope who has been working with BMW for over ten years. It is an evolution of the ‘driving-active' concept introduced by the same firm at the 2009 Frankfurt stand - an idea that was then new to motor ...
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Pavilion design glistens in Frankfurt
Any carmaker hoping to survive the 21st century is acutely aware of the power of pavilion design, and nowhere was this more evident than at the Frankfurt motor show last month.
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Design Review: Nissan Mixim concept
In profile, however, the F1 influence is slightly more pronounced, with features like the steeply-raked wraparound windscreen having been modeled from the visor of a crash helmet. The windscreen itself is oddly reminiscent of that found on early Saab 900 models, a feature that was likened to attributing a fighter ...
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ArticleEssay: Variable degrees of translucency
Exploring the potential of translucent materials in automotive design, this essay envisions a future where car exteriors blend opacity and transparency to redefine aesthetics and functionality
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ArticleDesign Review: Peugeot 1007
Throughout the history of the car it has been small cars that have most often demonstrated innovative design solutions, had attractive and characterful designs and gone on to become iconic products. Think Fiat Topolino, Volkswagen Beetle, Citroen 2CV, Fiat 500, Mini and even Renault 5, Fiat Panda, Peugeot 205, Ford Ka, Renault Twingo, Smart City Coupe/ForTwo and Citroen Pluriel.Peugeot’s new 1007
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Design Review: Nissan Mixim concept
Electric cars have certainly experienced resurgence in recent years. This can of course be directly attributed to the increases in gas prices and the threat of global warming, but also because automakers are being forced to explore new means of propelling their vehicles to meet strict emissions requirements currently being ...
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Design Review: Scion Hako Coupe concept
The interior, designed by Alexandre Vanghelder, is characterized as a four-seater lounge, and is shaped like a tub with three defining zones: a gaming zone for the driver, an entertainment zone for the front passenger and a relaxing zone for the rear passengers.
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Design Review: Scion Hako Coupe concept
The Scion Hako is an interesting concept vehicle brought forth by the brand that presented the bbX concept at the New York Auto Show in 2002. That car would later become the 2004 xB, a small vehicle created for the youth culture who valued the individualistic style offered by the ...
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Essay: Interpreting the Faces of Cars
The actual composition of the car face is crucial. The position of the grille relative to the center of the lamp (the pupil) is one determinant of whether the grille is seen as a nose or a mouth. As in humans, the quality of the facial appearance is concentrated around ...
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Essay: Interpreting the Faces of Cars
From their very first inception the front ends of cars have been likened to a face. The big breakthrough came with the adoption of the upright honeycomb radiator and use of two headlamps around 1901. From then on, the ensemble of radiator, headlamps and front fenders became the car's primary ...
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ArticleDesign Essay: Punctuating the Logic of Equilibrium
What is it that makes some products highly successful even though they are different to anything the public has seen before? And is different always better? Let us look at two examples, BMW and Motorola, to understand the answers.
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ArticleJaguar E-Type Celebrates 50th Anniversary
The Jaguar E-Type turned 50 this year and the marque is honouring its most iconic production car with a host of events around the world
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ArticleDesign Review: Lincoln Aviator concept
This car-based concept SUV is meant to act as a teaser for the next-generation Lincoln Aviator. The current Aviator is based on the Ford Explorer chassis and the assumption is that the next generation will use a car-based platform, such as that of the new Ford Freestyle.
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ArticleDesign Review: Porsche Boxster
Key changes centre around the simplified design language that eliminates the use of concave ‘flips’ that were a particular characteristic of the original Boxster concept of 1993. The biggest difference is at the front, where the headlamps are now egg-shaped and the hood features a totally enclosed shutline treatment not unlike the iconic 550 Spyder.
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Design Review: Porsche Boxster (981)
1. No tuck-underPrevious Boxsters featured a lot of tuck-under in the lower rocker. Combined with the wider track this new, squarer design appears more planted and solid. The inflection of a light catcher attempts to manage the sense of mass between the wheels.