All General Motors Design articles – Page 22
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Concept Car of the Week: GM-X Stiletto (1964)
With dreams of flying cars as the ultimate inspiration, General Motors designers in the ‘60s used every trick possible to make their creations appear as though they were floating - long, straight bodies, wheels pushed in and hidden away, large fins and lights that looked like rockets. As William L. ...
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Design Review: Faurecia Premium Attitude
Faurecia is a Tier 1 automotive supplier, usually outfitting vehicles built by General Motors, the Volkswagen Group, BMW and other well-known vehicle manufacturers with seats, doors, cockpits, front ends, acoustic packages and exhaust systems. This time however, they've decided to build a car to showcase their latest products, including innovative ...
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Who's Where: Bryan Nesbitt appointed VP of Design for GM North America
General Motors is looking to inject some newfound flair into its North American product lineup. Effective June 1, Bryan Nesbitt, currently Executive Director of Design at General Motors Europe will become Vice President of Design for North America and relocate to the company's technology headquarters in Warren, Michigan.
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General Motors Europe opens new Design Center
Being a car designer is often percieved as a glamourous occupation, but few people realise that this typically means working in some of the least inspiring places. Wolfsburg, Detroit and Birmingham are just a few of the locations that are home to some of the largest populations of car designers ...
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General Motors reshuffles Executive Design leadership team
General Motors will be changing its Executive Design leadership team around in the coming months to accelerate global product development. The announcement came on the heels of news regarding the giant automaker being surpassed by rival Toyota in global sales. In an effort to bring itself out of the red, ...
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Designer Interview: Bryan Nesbitt, Executive Director, GM Europe Design
Bryan Nesbitt presents the Opel Antara concept at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show. Click for larger images. Click for larger imagesPresentation by Bryan Nesbitt at the 2001 Autoweek Design Forum focused on the development of the PT CruiserPT Cruiser concept sketch (1996)GME presentation at the 2005 Geneva Motor ShowAt ...
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Design Review: Opel Corsa
Last year at the Frankfurt motor show the new Fiat Punto, Renault Clio, and Toyota Yaris were announced; three important new European B-sector cars. Earlier this year at Geneva the sector's best selling Peugeot 206 was replaced by the 207 and over the next twelve months Ford will show its ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
CDN: What makes Opel unique in design?"Maybe in the past it was a bit too focussed on functionality, so what we're trying to do now is really keep the functionality, in fact dial the functionality up several notches, but not let it compromise design. The design language that you're starting ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
On June 1st this year, Mark Adams became Vice-President of Design at GM Europe where he is charged with heading the newly-established GM Europe Design organization, including the Russelsheim-based GM Europe Design Center. He is responsible for the design of GM's European brands: Opel, Vauxhall and Saab, as well as ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Though deliberately sparse, the interior strikes a good balance between the aesthetic consequentiality of engineering and stylistic touches from the designer, Crittenden successfully blending her themes of '...raw...dark...and brooding.' Time was also spent designing a bespoke seat that differed from typical race-modified options, Kingsbury instead creating a sedentary carcass, with ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
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Designer Interviews: Anne Asensio, Executive Director of Advanced Design, GM
Some people sky dive for thrills, Anne Asensio seeks an adrenaline rush at work. Deciding to uproot from her French homeland, leave a cozy job at Renault - where she took part in developing such successful vehicles as the Megane minivan and Clio subcompact - and move to another continent ...
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Interview: Bob Boniface, Director of Design, GM E-Flex vehicles
CDN: So are you going to be creating other vehicles using this architecture across other brands? Might we see a Cadillac E-Flex vehicle for example?
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Interview: Bob Boniface, Director of Design, GM E-Flex vehicles
Bob Boniface is Director of Design for GM's E-Flex vehicles, which opened last year in an existing space within the manufacturer's Technology Center in Detroit, Michigan. The goal of the studio is to create a new generation of environmentally conscious vehicles, driven by the E-Flex architecture, and by design.
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EyesOn Design Awards 2010
Outstanding achievement in automotive design was recognized at the fifth annual EyesOn Design Awards held at the 2010 NAIAS in Detroit in January. Top honors were awarded to the GMC Granite urban utility vehicle in the Best Concept Vehicle category, and the Audi A8 luxury sedan for Best Production Vehicle.
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Design Essay: Pseudomotive Design
Meanwhile, Gehry has been working in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Wayne Cherry, formerly Design Director General Motors. Gehry has already discussed collaborating with Ford - before he mentioned his fee, a situation that has repeated itself with General Motors. But despite withdrawing his active role, the ...
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Show Review: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2008
Competitors from 12 countries and 27 States brought their world-class classics to California's Monterey Peninsula for judging in 24 classes at the 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which took place August 17.
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Exclusive: Franz von Holzhausen joins Tesla Motors
Car Design News has obtained exclusive information about Franz von Holzhausen's next career move. On Thursday of last week, von Holzhausen resigned from Mazda, where he was Director of Design at the R&D Design Center in Irvine CA, to become the Design Director at Tesla Motors.
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The Designers, Pt.12 - Ed Welburn, General Motors
Car Design News launched its first-ever Car Design Review yearbook at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring the award-winning Production Car and Concept Car Designs of 2013.
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Design Development: Saab Aero X concept
The full size exterior, for which much credit must also go to the modeler and Alias Designer Shoichiro Sasai, was signed off by Nesbitt and Lo in May after several outside dynoc reviews. The wheels, mirrors and exhaust designed and sketched in Alias by Daniel were also chosen in May ...
