Features – Page 7
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Design Driven – Honda e prototype
Honda’s Urban EV’s showroom car is nearly ready. That won’t be unveiled until the Frankfurt motor show, so we took the near-production protoype for a design drive
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Cartier concours
Cartier Style et Luxe lawn at the Goodwood Festival of Speed had a stunning array of classic cars
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Design Essay: Are ‘Responsible’ Cars the Future?
We took a look at why a holistic view of a vehicle’s environmental and social impact is needed when developing the cars of the future
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Shanghai 2019 overview
Now the dust has settled on the biggest auto show of the year, we asked Drew Meehan join the dots of what we saw in April in Shanghai
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Student’s design review of Shanghai 2019
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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Q&A with YooJung Ahn, head of design, Waymo
Celebrating 10 years of self-driving design development, Car Design News chats to Waymo’s head of design YooJung Ahn
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Design 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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Concept 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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Vision 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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The Winds of Time: What Makes a Design ‘Dated’?
“I used to like it, but it seems so dated now…”
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Trend 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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Tata’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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Design 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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Driven: 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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Design 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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Design Essay: MBUX Reimagined
An expert takes on the task of suggesting how Mercedes’ new UX could be improved
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Driven: Hyundai Kona Electric
Car Design News takes a drive in a very convincing compact crossover, the Hyundai Kona Electric
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Car 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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Car 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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Car 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.