All Features articles – Page 2

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    Signs of Design: Geely’s new Shanghai studio

    2019-12-06T12:57:00Z

    Geely Design moved its main China facility into an anonymous looking site near Shanghai South Station in June. Studio chief Guy Burgoyne gave us a little tour

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    Driven: Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic

    2019-11-08T11:01:00Z

    Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations has produced a new range-topping version of the Velar, and it’s a delight

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    Show Review: K 2019

    2019-11-07T14:44:00Z

    Car Design News reports on the 2019 K trade fair in Düsseldorf, which explored the use of plastics in automotive design and manufacturing

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    Studio Visit: Jaguar’s new Gaydon studio

    2019-10-04T11:34:00Z

    Jaguar Land Rover put on a special media tour of its new Jaguar design studio in Gaydon, England. The state-of-the-art facility spans 12,000 square metres and allows closer communication between departments

  • CDN_Ian Callum Aston Martin Vanquish VC25_Concours of Elegance
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    Ian Callum on his new venture – and his new Vanquish

    2019-10-01T08:54:00Z

    Car Design News spoke to Ian Callum about his new design firm, CALLUM, as well as its first project, the Aston Martin Vanquish 25 by CALLUM, created alongside R-Reforged.

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    First sight: Yanfeng XiM20

    2019-09-23T14:07:00Z

    Yanfeng’s Red Dot award-winning XiM20’s concept focuses on making a connection with people using a vehicle for short-trip travel, within a framework of the users being a group who value experiences over posessions

  • CDN Ralph Gilles FCA Maserati
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    Exclusive: Ralph Gilles talks Maserati, UX and beyond

    2019-09-09T12:26:00Z

    On a sunny day in California, Car Design News got an exclusive update from FCA’s global president of product design, Ralph Gilles, on Maserati interior materials, UI and UX design, the positive side of shared components, and what the future might hold for this historic Italian sports car brand

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    Ken Okuyama on the Aiways U7 Ion

    2019-09-03T16:54:00Z

    Working with the Aiways internal teams from his studio in Japan, Ken Okuyama has been working with the Chinese EV brand Aiways on the design of the company’s Shanghai show stand, a line of lifestyle products, and their newest concept car, the U7 Ion. He says that in the future, his design influence will likely extend to branding, stores, and even the website. After seeing the investment the company has made in their fully-automated production facility, he was convinced that Aiways had a big future, and he wanted to be part of it. In late 2018, he was named Chief Advisor of Design & Art, and his influence at the startup is already being felt. The immiment arrival of two Aiways U5 prototypes at the Frankfurt motor show on September 9, which left Xi’an in China on 17 July, seems a good time to take another look at this ambitious Chinese brand.

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    Exclusive: Roberto Giolito on the 2004 Fiat Trepiuno

    2019-08-21T14:38:00Z

    In the second of our series exploring the Fiat Heritage Hub, head of the new facility, Roberto Giolito, reveals a few secrets behind one of its most influential exhibits and his most famous design, the trailblazing 2004 Trepiuno…

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    Design Essay: What is a ‘luxury’ car?

    2019-08-12T16:31:00Z

    With more and more brands going upmarket, it is worth examining this often-misused term…

  • CDN Goodwood FOS 1957 Abarth 750 Goccia Vignale
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    Cartier concours

    2019-08-02T14:52:00Z

    Cartier Style et Luxe lawn at the Goodwood Festival of Speed had a stunning array of classic cars

  • CDN Goodwood Future Lab 2019 Kar-go at Goodwood.
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    Visions of tomorrow at Goodwood FOS’s Future Lab

    2019-07-30T19:04:00Z

    The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019 Future Lab crammed together the latest auto and digital innovations 

  • CDN CND's newest contributor...Liu Dong
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    Student’s design review of Shanghai 2019

    2019-07-11T13:13:00Z

    Winner of CDN’s CDAC award 2019, Liu Dong, walked the halls for CDN and reviewed the cars that caught his eye at the Shanghai’s motor show 2019

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    Concept Car of the Week: Quasar Khanh’s Unipower City Car

    2019-06-14T14:32:00Z

    The Unipower City Car, a tiny rolling glass box, was introduced in the 1960s, and designed by an unlikely engineer-turned-car and furniture designer, Quasar Khanh 

  • CDN Winds of time 2019 - 2006 Chrysler_PT_Cruiser_2429cc
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    The Winds of Time: What Makes a Design ‘Dated’?

    2019-06-03T15:12:00Z

    “I used to like it, but it seems so dated now…”

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    Opinion: Why honest design matters

    2018-06-18T10:24:00Z

    Mild misdirection or visual lying? Here’s a firm view on the trend of design fakery

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    Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Karin (1980)

    2015-05-06T18:14:00Z

    With the 1980 Paris Motor show approaching and no new model to unveil, Citroën needed something to wow the crowds on its home turf.

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    Concept Car of the Week: Cadillac Sixteen (2003)

    2015-05-05T21:39:00Z

    Many premium brands struggle to keep their heritage of crafts and aesthetics up to date without often falling into obvious retro references. With a rich tradition of innovation, Cadillac tackled this difficult task in 2003 by creating the stunning Sixteen concept.

  • 3rd Gen Nissan Cube at the 2008 LA Auto show
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    Design Review: Nissan Cube 2008

    2008-01-09T21:41:00Z

    This is one of the most unusual mass-market car designs on the planet. Nissan describes it a ‘unique witty design’ that ‘offers a whimsical combination of squares and circles’, but the new Cube is a far more significant design than this superficial description suggests.

  • CDN Liugi Colani Ferrari Testa d’Oro (1989)
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    Luigi Colani - Translating Nature exhibition

    2007-05-09T10:15:00Z

    One of the most influential designers of the past half-century, Luigi Colani, is the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. With a career spanning almost six decades, Colani has applied his unique design style to produce cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, ceramics and consumer goods, as well as creating futuristic concepts for as-yet unrealized transport systems and architecture.