All articles by Guy Bird – Page 11
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Studio Focus: BMW DesignworksUSA Shanghai
The new studio splits its time 50/50 between BMW Group work and external clients, but in these early days, Steinle says his team is spending a lot of time on strategy, looking in particular at Chinese purchasing perspectives. "The Chinese market is more layered than more mature markets", he observes. ...
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Studio Focus: BMW DesignworksUSA Shanghai
BMW DesignworksUSA Shanghai Brands Various clients, plus BMW Group (BMW, Mini, i and Rolls-Royce)Established April 2012 Location Huangpu District, Shanghai, ChinaStaff 8 Studio leader Gerhard Steinle
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Design Development: Ford Transit Courier, Connect, Custom and 2T
Wraith and Campbell say the exterior, interior and colour and trim for each model were worked on at the same time, starting with the biggest 2T and Custom models then followed by the smaller Connect and Courier. There was some overlap and cross-referencing between vehicle design schedules though, as Campbell ...
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Design Development: Ford Transit Courier, Connect, Custom and 2T
Other changes include a lowered roof to allow the vehicle into more restricted height areas like car parks and private estates. The design was adjusted after the team heard customer anecdotes of van drivers getting into such areas with heavy loads lowering their vehicle height sufficiently, but then when the ...
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Design Development: Ford Transit Courier, Connect, Custom and 2T
To educate those influencers outside the design studio, it was quickly decided to show something that would point out their intended change of tack. Wraith continues: "We wanted to convey that we could make something that looked good and still be very practical, so very early on we milled out ...
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Design Development: Ford Transit Courier, Connect, Custom and 2T
Vehicle type Commercial & passenger vehicle rangeExecutive design director Martin SmithDesign director Stefan LammChief designer Paul Campbell - all exteriors, plus Custom and 2T interiorsExterior design manager Paul Wraith - Courier, Connect & CustomExterior design manager Jordan Bennett - 2T variantsChief interior designer Ernst Reim - Courier, Connect, Custom & ...
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Driven: Mercedes 190E and Evolution II
Inside, the understated elegance continues with three main driver's dials sitting under a cowl whose top edge gently slopes down to cover the centre stack before running parallel with the lower IP feature line towards the passenger door.
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Driven: Mercedes 190E and Evolution II
It's not often you get a chance to drive mint-condition classic cars carefully restored and garaged by someone else, so when the opportunity arose to captain two very different Mercedes 190s back to back - a less-is-more 1984 190 and its definitely more-is-more 1990 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II cousin - ...
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Design Development: Ford Evos concept
Three scale models were created after the summer selection process followed by a full-scale clay model in December 2010. Lamm stresses that once that model was milled there was still a lot of work to do, "as scale models can cheat the eyes". He was pleased to have the extra ...
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Design Development: Ford Evos concept
Far from a conceptual flight of fancy, the Ford Evos concept signals no less than the look and feel of the next generation of Ford vehicles worldwide. Given that burden, no wonder the design team led by J Mays and Martin Smith took a little longer over it than normal, ...
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Design Development: Nissan Juke
The development of the interior was started slightly after the exterior in late 2006, but not that much later, as interior designer Patrick Reimer points out: "you've always got to wait for the belt line and the window points and the seat positions. It's not quite clear until they are ...
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Design Development: Nissan Juke
There's nothing 'me-too' about the new Nissan Juke. The radically styled vehicle effectively kick-starts a new production segment from later this year — the supermini/crossover — and although primarily aimed at Europe, Nissan also plans to shake up markets in the US and Japan by seeking customers bored of anonymous ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Wagener and his team were equally 'confidential' regarding the timings and 'behind the scenes' progress of the interior design of the new E-Class sedan and Coupé, but Wagener did reveal that the key sketch for the Coupé's IP involved a stealth fighter wing reference which transformed into the shape of ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
The E-Class is the bedrock of the Mercedes range and one of its best-selling models. The previous version sold 1.5 million units in six years and more than 12 million have been sold across its eight generations to date.
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Design Review: Lincoln Concept C
Lincoln doesn't make a small car yet but it if did, the Concept C unveiled at the NAIAS gives a strong indication of what one could look like. The market for small luxury cars - or what Peter Horbury, Ford's executive director of design for the Americas, terms "sensible indulgence" ...
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Interview: Chuck Pelly, founder of Designworks USA, The LA Design Challenge and The Design Academy
What future trends do you see in car design? One to watch is the humanization of cars. Active aerodynamics can make grilles look very human. Also, I think the acceleration of luxury, personalization and more natural and mixed materials will feature.
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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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First Sight: Twin’Z: Renault x Ross Lovegrove
Among the many car brand-related unveils within Milan Design Week, Renault was the only marque to actually launch a fully-fledged concept car. Car Design News spoke exclusively to its technical project manager Minh Au Truong and design superstar collaborator Ross Lovegrove to find out more about this much-hyped vehicle.
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Design Development: Nissan IDx Freeflow and Nismo concepts
The basic exterior shape of what would become the Freeflow was created by Nissan’s in-house designers and was finalized through sketching alone followed by a quarter-scale and then a 1:1 model in 2012. At the start of 2013, Aoki says two half-scale models were made plus an interior 1:1 model (at first just the front part), but by this point the Gen Z helpers were being used more for feedback on th
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Design Development: Nissan IDx Freeflow and Nismo concepts
Vehicle type 2-door sedanLength 4,100mmWidth (exc. Mirrors) Freeflow 1,700mm/Nismo 1,800mmHeight 1,300mmWheelbase 2,570mmSVP & chief creative officer Shiro NakamuraExecutive design director Mamoru AokiExterior creative team leader Kazuki YamazakiInterior creative team leader Masato IshikawaColour design manager Hideshi SaikiProject started November 2011Project completed September 2013Launch Tokyo
