Features – Page 5
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ArticleConcept Cars: All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Show?
The star turns of the motor show, concept cars provoke, excite and inspire. But what happens to the special guests when the party is cancelled?
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ArticleHow Mazda matched colour with design
Mazda has developed paint coatings and application technology to fit with its vehicle design philosophy to both enhance the aesthetics and be environmentally sustainable
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ArticleConcept Car of the Month: Gran Turismo Red Bull X1 (2010-19)
Looking back to when a Formula 1 team and a video game studio collaborated to design the ultimate racing car
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ArticleDesign Essay: how adversity shapes cars
The changing face of car design through difficult times is in fact a prime example of humanity’s remarkable adaptability and resilience – not to mention our collective mood.
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ArticleAre ’quadri-mobiles' the future of small cars?
Over the last ten to fifteen years, a combination of more rigorous regulatory demands and increasing customer expectations conspired to create the finest superminis ever made. One look at cars like the Volkswagen Up or the latest Hyundai i10 is enough to realise that buyers of entry-level models never had it so good
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ArticleDesign Essay: Surprise & delight, the importance of detail design
What makes people fall in love with cars? Aidan Walsh argues that small details in design cement long-term love affairs with vehicles
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ArticleDesign Essay: Big Screen, Big Problem?
Integrating screens in car interiors comes with a set of significant problems, from aesthetic decisions to considering the life-cycle of the vehicle. You could argue that how screens are handled within the instrument panel highlights many of the wider creative challenges of mobility design
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ArticleDesigner profile: Simon Humphries, head of design, Toyota
Two years in at the top job, Car Design News chats to Simon Humphries, head of design for Toyota and Lexus
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ArticleJukeboxes: the unlikely automotive influence
A look at the connection between mid-century American cars and jukeboxes
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Interior Motives2020 Trend Report by CnTFactory
CnTFactory has teamed up with CDN and Interior Motives magazine to provide a quarterly report on the trends that every automotive designer should have in their moodboards
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ArticleDesign Essay: Is still possible to draw in Italian?
Designer and writer Matteo Licata takes a brief look back at the history of Italian car design and asks if the same emotion can be replicated today
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ArticleThe inside story of Land Rover’s new Defender
The interiors design team at Land Rover created a new look for the Defender interior with cunning storage solutions and rugged sophistication
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ArticleDesign Essay: Why is Car Design so Hooked on the Past?
Retro car designs have been appearing throughout the 21st century so far… but why are they so popular?
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ArticleLand Rover Defender 2019
Land Rover’s new Defender has taken enough elements of the old Defender to respect the heritage, while playfully updating and reinterpreting the brand identitiy for a modern context. CDN spoke to Massimo Frascella, Gerry McGovern and Andy Wheel about the exterior design. The full interior story will follow in a few weeks…
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ArticleDesign Essay: The Strange Allure of Ugliness
Are tastes changing, or is taste simply disappearing? We try not to cover our eyes…
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ArticleMercedes moves into France’s tech hub (near Nice)
Car Design News strolled around the futuristic new Mercedes-Benz advanced design studio in Nice, France, where the German brand’s heads of department showed us around and explained the reasons for the move
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ArticleSigns of Design: Geely’s new Shanghai studio
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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ArticleDesign Essay: Could the Electric Revolution save the Sports Car?
Could the flexibility, modularity and lower production costs of electric vehicle platforms be the sports car’s unlikely saviour?
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ArticleIconic BMW designs: the 2002tii
BMW fan and M-car obsessive Steve Carter highlights his Top 5 BMW cars of all time, starting with the legendary BMW 2002tii
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ArticleBMW Design spotlight
BMW has shown some really interesting Vision concept cars in the last few years, most recently, the Vision M Next. If you want to understand what BMW design’s aesthetic values are – the Vision cars are a good place to start.