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ArticleConcept Car of the Month: Opel Experimental GT (1965)
In the guiding hands of a young of Erhard Schnell, this month’s concept car, the Experimental GT, marked a turning point for Opel Design
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Article
Designer 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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ArtCenter 2019/20 Degree Show
Quality over quantity at the leading California automotive design school ArtCenter
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First Sight: Seat Leon
Car Design News speaks to Seat’s head of design about the new Leon – designed to seduce
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Interior Motives
2020 Trend Report by CnTFactory
CnTFactory has teamed up with CDN and Interior Motives magazine to provide a quarterly report on the trends that every automotive designer should have in their moodboards
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Article
Design Essay: Is still possible to draw in Italian?
Designer and writer Matteo Licata takes a brief look back at the history of Italian car design and asks if the same emotion can be replicated today
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CES 2020: Mercedes-Benz releases the AVTR concept
Mercedes-Benz aims to blur the lines between human and machine with its new Vision AVTR concept, shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in partnership with film director James Cameron, whose 2009 blockbuster Avatar gets a sequel next year
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CES 2020: Byton shows the “production ready” M-Byte
Byton trotted out a near-production version of the M-Byte crossover at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, exactly two years after the Chinese startup first debuted its ambitious concept.
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CES 2020: Segway-Ninebot shows swift single-seater
At CES 2020, Segway-Ninebot launched a series of new eMopeds and eScooters as well as a self-balancing rolling chair called the S-Pod
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Exhibition
Degree Show: Kookmin University 2019
Highlights from Kookmin University’s end of year automotive and transport design degree show in South Korea
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News
Automotive design stories fresh from CES 2020
Sony sparked speculation that it was entering the car market by unveiling an impressively well-finished prototype electric car, the Vision S, at the CES show in Las Vegas this week.
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News
CES 2020: MetroSnap, Rinspeed’s biggest concept to date
Rinspeed has introduced the MetroSnap, the largest of the group of Snap concepts. It can seat six in a 3+3 arrangement like a mini-bus or shuttle, it can again, be a mobile conference room, or be outfitted for commercial or cargo solutions
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News
CES 2020: Toyota debuts a concept city
After the smorgasbord of tech and mobility solutions we saw at the Tokyo motorshow last year, we wondered what else Toyota could have up it’s sleeve for CES 2020… turns out it is a whole city
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News
CES 2020: BMW brings an ‘Urban Suite’ to Vegas
BMW brings a luxury mobility concept interior to CES 2020 – squeezed inside an i3
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News
Remembering Syd Mead, 1933-2019
Syd Mead, visual futurist, automotive designer, motion picture concept designer, industrial designer, and an inspiration to almost everyone working in these design fields, has died at the age of 86, succumbing to complications of lymphoma, which he had fought for the last three years.
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Land Rover Defender 2019
Land Rover’s new Defender has taken enough elements of the old Defender to respect the heritage, while playfully updating and reinterpreting the brand identitiy for a modern context. CDN spoke to Massimo Frascella, Gerry McGovern and Andy Wheel about the exterior design. The full interior story will follow in a few weeks…
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Design Essay: The Strange Allure of Ugliness
Are tastes changing, or is taste simply disappearing? We try not to cover our eyes…
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Updated: Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 teased
Gordon Murray Automotive has previewed its T.50 V12 hypercar and its ingenious ground effect fan system…
