All General Motors Design articles – Page 20
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
There was something rather out of step with the new Mustang’s debut at the recent LA Auto Show. Here was a new design from Ford, conceptually and thematically representing so much of what was once great about American car design, American cars and the post-war ‘baby-boomer’ period of US car ...
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LA Design Challenge 2010 announced
This year will see the seventh running of the annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge when the industry circus hits the US west coast in November.
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Design Contest: LA Design Challenge 2008
The entrants for the fifth annual Design Challenge, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designers' conference, have now been announced. Nine Southern California automotive design studios - including Audi, BMW, GM, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Volkswagen - have been pitted against one another and asked to develop ...
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LA Design Challenge 2009
The LA Auto Show has just announced the competitors in its 6th annual Design Challenge. The entries - coming from the Southern California design studios of Audi, General Motors, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota - all revolve around a set theme which asked designers to envision the ultimate ‘youthmobile' for the ...
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2010 LA Design Challenge entrants revealed
Entries for the 2010 Los Angeles Design Challenge have now been revealed. The futuristic proposals, which called for designers to envision a 1000lbs (454kg) 2+2 vehicle that delivers comfort, safety and satisfactory driving performance without sacrificing the emotional connection today's consumers demand from their vehicles, come from the west coast ...
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Design Contest: Interior Motives Awards 2011
Shortlisted entries have been announced for the 2011 Interior Motives Student Design Awards. After individual deliberation by our panel of renowned senior designers, students being tutored at colleges in a diverse range of countries including Israel, the Czech Republic, Australia, Taiwan, Canada and China, as well as in the established ...
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Mercury dies off, Lincoln to benefit
Ford's brand portfolio is set to get smaller by the end of the year. Following the sale of Aston Martin, Land Rover, Jaguar and most recently Volvo (to Chinese automaker Geely), the Blue Oval has now announced the demise of its 'middle of the range' Mercury brand, with production of ...
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Interview: Chuck Pelly, founder of Designworks USA, The LA Design Challenge and The Design Academy
'Industry veteran' can be an overused term but Chuck Pelly's 40-plus years of professional design experience definitely makes him qualify. He's perhaps best known for founding DesignworksUSA but his design story started in 1954 after getting a $3000 scholarship from the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild - an annual competition set ...
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Car Design News - GM Interactive Design Competition Winners Announced at NAIAS
Car Design News and General Motors today announced the eight winners of their interactive design competition in an awards ceremony on the Cadillac stand at the North American International Auto Show 2012 (NAIAS).
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Exclusive: Joel Piaskowski to head Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design NA
Thanks to our contacts within the automotive design community, Car Design News can confirm that Joel Piaskowski, who resigned from his position as Chief Designer at Hyundai's North American design studios on December 19, 2008, will be taking over the position previously held by Gorden Wagener at Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design. ...
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CDOTY awards presented at Auto Design Night Geneva
Car Design News, in partnership with Interior Motives magazine, hosted the fourth annual Auto Design Night event at La Sip nightclub in Geneva last night. With more than 300 attendees reading like a who's who in automotive design, designers were able to reconnect with old friends and make new acquaintances ...
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LA Design Challenge 2011: studios compete to design Hollywood car
This year's LA Design Challenge will see competitors from around the world battle to design Hollywood's next movie car.
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Contests Archive: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition 2011
The Car Design News - GM Interactive Design Competition was open to design students across the USA and Canada.
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Joel Piaskowski becomes Director of Exterior Design at Ford North America
Joel Piaskowski is set to become Ford's North American Director of Exterior Design. He will be filling the position previously vacated by Moray Callum, who was promoted to Executive Director for Ford Americas design when Peter Horbury went back to head up Volvo's design efforts earlier this year.
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LA Design Challenge 2012: Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025
The LA Design Challenge has called for design studios from around the world to compete and create the ultimate law enforcement vehicle for the year 2025.
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Wulin Gaowa on GM’s new Chinese Advanced Design Studio
Following on from our story in September about Wulin Gaowa's appointment to GM Design as Director of its China Advanced Design, the company has released more details about the new studio and an interview with the designer.
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Essay: China Design Now - Part II
While the Chinese companies are looking to create brands, established overseas manufacturers are looking over their shoulders to protect theirs.
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Nissan opens new design studio in Beijing
Another piece of evidence of the Beijing studio's potential: an edgy crossover car the center's designers developed, inspired by a very popular Chinese street art form called jianzhi - a type of paper cutting. The nameless car - a pure design exercise at this point, according to Nakamura - is ...
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Automakers sign up to Apple 'Eyes Free' Siri button
Apple has announced that the leading carmakers have signed up for the addition of an ‘Eyes Free' button that will activate Siri for in-car Apple products.
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An Audience with Syd Mead at CCS
"Visual futurist and concept artist." Like some sort of Transformer, those words combine to create an ideal job description for many an industrial designer. With the world of design becoming more varied, and our jobs becoming more demanding of diversity, it's no surprise that many of us venture into adjacent ...
