Features – Page 7
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ArticleDesign interview: Sharon Gauci, GM
“In its purest form, design should be a sensory journey of discovery,” says GM’s executive director of industrial design
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Quasar Khanh’s Unipower City Car
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
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ArticleVision Gran Turismo – The Cars
(This was originally a bonus section attached to our essay about how car design and video games have overlapped in recent years, which you can read here.) A Rolling Start The idea of cars designed specifically for video games didn’t arrive suddenly. As well as its own in-game ‘LM Race ...
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ArticleThe Winds of Time: What Makes a Design ‘Dated’?
“I used to like it, but it seems so dated now…”
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ArticleTrend report: Clerkenwell Design Week 2019
Clerkenwell Design Week is in its tenth year, and improving with age. We assess trends that are likely to bleed into automotive
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ArticleTata’s H2X shrinks the bluff SUV format to city-car size
Substantially shorter than today’s popular B-segment SUVs, the Tata H2X concept previews an upcoming city-sized SUV
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ArticleDesign Essay: Lighting – Car Design’s Latest Battleground
Whether they’re ‘eyes’ or ‘brand signatures’, they’re designed for more than just night vision…
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ArticleDriven: Suzuki Jimny
We explore one of the most hyped cars of the moment, the new Suzuki Jimny, on-road and off
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ArticleDesign Essay: The role of humans in AVs
Autonomous light commercial vehicles are a growing area – but where do humans fit into it?
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ArticleDesign Essay: MBUX Reimagined
An expert takes on the task of suggesting how Mercedes’ new UX could be improved
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ArticleDriven: Hyundai Kona Electric
Car Design News takes a drive in a very convincing compact crossover, the Hyundai Kona Electric
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ArticleCar Design Essentials Part 3: Graphics
Designers talk of “having an eye for design,” an intuitive sense of what’s harmonious and what is undesirable but what exactly are the components of the criteria that they’re using? For automotive design it essentially breaks down into three steps, which we term ‘Bones, Muscles and Graphics’. In this final part, we examine the third element of evaluating automotive design, the graphic treatment (grilles, lamps, window shapes, shutlines, DRG, DLO, wheels)
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ArticleCar Design Essentials Part 2: Muscles
How do you teach automotive design students to develop a good eye for design; to intuitively draw vehicles with good proportions, pleasing lines and a strong design character? Essentially, it breaks down into three steps, which I term ‘Bones, Muscles and Graphics’. Over the course of three articles Nick Hull will introduce these steps and explain the components of each element that builds into a complete set of principles.
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ArticleCar Design Essentials Part 1: Bones
How do you teach automotive design students to develop a good eye for design; to intuitively draw vehicles with good proportions, pleasing lines and a strong design character? Essentially, it breaks down into three steps, which I term ‘Bones, Muscles and Graphics’. Over the course of three articles Nick Hull will introduce these steps and explain the components of each element that builds into a complete set of principles.
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ArticleOpinion: Why honest design matters
Mild misdirection or visual lying? Here’s a firm view on the trend of design fakery
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ArticleDesign Essay: Changing The Game
Looking at what the virtual world can – and will – bring to reality
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Autobianchi Runabout (1969)
The 850 was a very popular car for Fiat in the ‘60s, especially in its spider version with its cute design and compact proportions. When the time came to replace it, Fiat went back to Bertone, where chief designer Marcello Gandini was charged with designing its replacement.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Bertone Alfa Romeo Carabo (1968)
Marcello Gandini’s Carabo for Alfa Romeo pioneered a distinct design language, influencing automotive icons such as the Lotus Esprit and Lamborghini Countach
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ArticleDesign Essay: Towards a new architecture
Two thoughtful, innovative concepts have advanced the discussion on autonomous cars
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ArticlePickup Trucks: Where Next?
What does the expanding remit of the pickup mean for its designers?