All articles by Guy Bird – Page 3
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ArticleInterior Motives Summer 2021: SAIC IM Airo
Heatherwick Studio, which designed the revamped London Routemaster Bus and the 2012 Olympic Cauldron, has created the SAIC Airo ‑ a living room on wheels that cleans the air as it moves
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ArticleAudi’s Marc Lichte on the premium brand’s autonomous revolution
Audi’s head of design Marc Lichte talks ‘revolution’, sexy GTs and vans (and why the Grand Sphere is very much the former not the latter)
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ArticleAll change please: Dissecting the car design top job merry-go-round
Within the last year there have arguably been more major job changes in senior car design than in the last five put together. Via exclusive quotes, dot-joining and head-scratching, Car Design News unpicks some of the reasons and possible consequences
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ArticleInterior Motives Spring 2021: Hyundai Ioniq 5
A calming colour palette, sliding centre console and fridge magnet style personalisation – Hyundai’s Ioniq borrows from domestic design to create a coherent, usable interior rather than ‘la la land’ concepts
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ArticleObituary: The French maestro Robert Opron
One of the finest car designers of the 20th Century, Robert Opron, passed away last week, aged 89. Responsible for masterpieces for Simca, Citroen, Renault and Alfa Romeo from the late 1950s to the late-80s – and one of the few recipients of the Car Design News Lifetime Achievement Award – we salute his life and influence, via still vivid memories of visiting his house south of Paris back in 2016 to discuss his career over Scotch and Pringles…
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ArticleState of the Screen
As technology has become more prevalent in car design, interiors have been marked by a steady proliferation of touchscreens. Guy Bird explores the near future to discover whether the black mirror is here for good
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ArticleFirst Sight: Kia EV6 unveiled as Habib outlines new design strategy
Kia’s EV6 suggests a softer, more subtle interpretation of its current design language. Senior design VP Karim Habib, however, wants to focus on concepts rather than style
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ArticleInterior Motives: Hyundai Prophecy
Resolutely not a ‘show business’ car, the Prophecy contrasts analogue and digital worlds to create an original and unique car interior which, according to the design team, will soon be on our streets
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ArticleInterior Motives: BMW iX
The latest all-electric Beamer has divided opinion thanks to its controversial styling, but the interiors team will have no such concerns with a striking, unconventional layout that allies boutique hotel design with hidden tech
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ArticleGerry McGovern to oversee Land Rover and Jaguar brands
Land Rover’s chief creative officer has landed JLR’s top design job. Car Design News asks why (and why now)?
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ArticleLexus LF-30 - interior design development
Lexus’ electric vision pitched for the year 2030 was designed in the European ED2 studio and began with a very open brief
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Interior MotivesVolkswagen ID.3 - the interior story
From the Winter 2012/20 issue of Interior Motives magazine: Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen Group Design, tells Car Design News about creating the pivotal new ID.3 electric car
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ArticleFourth-gen Kia Sorento lasers in on interior quality
Kia unveils its new Sorento – a large seven-seater SUV that has fresh exterior and interior designs
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NewsThe DS Aero Sport Lounge proposes satin, straw and ultrasonic gesture control as the new French luxury
Parent company PSA’s bid to make the historic DS name feel like a truly standalone new brand took another conceptual step in the right direction with its Aero Sport Lounge unveil this week. With the threat of virus contamination stopping real-world Geneva Motor Show proceedings Car Design News got on the phone to DS’s design director Thierry Métroz instead to talk through its importance.
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ArticleHyundai Prophecy wows the internet (if not the crowds)
The Hyundai Prophecy concept has to be one of the (virtual) stars of the 2020 Geneva Motor (No) Show. A cursory glance at social media conversations – from grown-up experts, not trolls – reveals a stream of very positive comments, with favourable comparisons to the classic 1947 UrSaab and also modern-day Teslas, as well as perhaps a sprinkling of 70s Porsche 911 in the rear wing. None of which is to suggest this concept is derivative, but just confirms what we already suspected: that Hyundai’s current design team have good taste, a broad palette and an increasing licence to be creative.
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NewsFirst Sight: Up close with Renault’s shape-shifting Morphoz
Luckily Car Design News had already seen Renault’s Geneva Motor Show concept car up close and personal in Paris a week before the Swiss event got cancelled. Now the embargo has lifted here’s the lowdown on the remarkable vari-sized vehicle and its innovative interior direct from some of the key designers behind the project…
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ArticleDesigner profile: Simon Humphries, head of design, Toyota
Two years in at the top job, Car Design News chats to Simon Humphries, head of design for Toyota and Lexus
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ArticleMercedes moves into France’s tech hub (near Nice)
Car Design News strolled around the futuristic new Mercedes-Benz advanced design studio in Nice, France, where the German brand’s heads of department showed us around and explained the reasons for the move
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ArticleLA 2019: VW ID Space Vizzion concept
The 2019 version of VW can’t be accused of shirking its environmental responsibilities. Hot on the heels of the production version of the ID.3 at September’s Frankfurt Motor Show, just two months later it revealed the latest in its all-electric ID family in the shape of the Space Vizzion concept at the 2019 LA Auto Show.
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ArticleFirst Sight: Mercedes Vision Simplex
To coincide with its newest Advanced Design studio opening in Nice, Mercedes-Benz unveiled a fun-filled concept called the Vision Simplex
