Euan Sey
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The Designers Pt8 – Lou Tik, JAC
JAC's design director on how future car design means working with non-car firms to create outstanding HMI
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Interior Motives magazine reboots
This evening saw the launch of Car Design News' all-new specialist interior design publication Interior Motives magazine. Senior designers gathered together at Le Sip nightclub in Geneva for the annual Auto Design Night were among the first people in the world to get a look at the Spring 2009 ...
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Design Review: GMC Granite concept
Entrance to the interior is through a set of barn-style pillarless doors that provide a conceptual twist on the new Opel Meriva's innovative set-up. (That car sits on a similar wheelbase, but retains conventional B-pillars for reasons of structural rigidity).
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Design Review: GMC Granite concept
Even iconic brands have difficulty expand beyond the design parameters that brought them their success. You need only witness Mini's growing pains as it attempts to enter the SUV crossover segment with the Countryman for proof of that. For a brand like GMC, whose model line is based on mildly ...
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Design Services: Majenta Academy
Established in May 2007, the Majenta Academy has continued its drive this year to provide design graduates with the hands-on 3D computer-aided design skills required to succeed in the commercial world. Majenta Solutions, one of Europe's leading IT infrastructure solutions providers, has training facilities in Barcelona, London and Gothenburg that ...
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Design Development: Volvo S60
This racetrack theme actually originated with the interior design, which was led by chief interior designer Jonathan Disley. "We had already developed the ‘Spa' theme for the S80/V70 - a feeling of luxury, of wellbeing after a long trip. The question was how to turn that into something very racy ...
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Design Development: Volvo S60
Last year's Volvo S60 concept stirred up great expectations for the production version to follow. Wearing an exciting new face and sleek, coupe-like proportions pushed through by then Design Director Steve Mattin, it promised to usher in a new era of more overtly sporting design at the Swedish brand.
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Interview: Jae S. Min, Chief Designer, Audi of America
When I speak to Audi designers I get the impression that the culture there is more inwards-looking than at, say, BMW or Nissan - less open to outside influence from fashion, product design and so on. Is that the case?
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Interview: Jae S. Min, Chief Designer, Audi of America
Born in Korea to an architect and a classical ballerina, but educated in the US, Jae S Min is very much the kind of creative, multicultural designer that carmakers seek to attract in the 21st century. Having graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a degree in transportation ...
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2009 Interior Motives Design Awards
Registration for the seventh annual Interior Motives Design Awards - themed ‘Sustainable and Clever' - is now open. Hosted by our quarterly interior design publication Interior Motives, the competition challenges design students around the world to come up with innovative designs that offer clever solutions to the problems facing 21st ...
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Interview: Stephane Schwarz, CEO, StephaneSchwarzStudio
Born in Switzerland, raised in France and educated in Italy, 42-year-old Stephane Schwarz is not just a quintessential European, but - until January of this year -looked set for a stellar career within the Nissan-Renault alliance. As Design Director of Nissan Design Europe's studio in Paddington, England, and the man ...
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Umea Institute of Design degree show 2009
Masters students from Sweden's Umea Institute of Design recently exhibited their final-year projects at the university's annual degree show. Featuring the work of both graduating diploma students and those completing the first year of their MA in Transportation Design, this year's exhibition brought together a diverse range of themes, ranging ...
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Design Development: Alfa Romeo Giulietta
The interior development was done on an equally tight schedule. Sketching began in November 2007, some six months before the interior design freeze of April 2008. "The brief was for something simple, emotional, ergonomic and spacious," recalls Alfa Romeo Chief Interior Designer, Ramon Ginah. "In terms of emotion, one of ...
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Design Development: Alfa Romeo Giulietta
In many ways, the Giulietta can be seen as a physical embodiment of the turbulent period that Alfa Romeo has endured over the last five years. Since work began in 2005, 'Project 940' (as it was known internally) has undergone two changes of name - from 149 to Milano to ...
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Design Review: Toyota FT-86 concept
The FT-86 is much more than just another show car. Developed as a fully-drivable ‘prototype concept', the FT-86 coupe is destined to spearhead a new wave of exciting Toyotas - sports cars designed to add glamour and desirability to a Japanese brand that spectacularly failed to do so with its ...
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Design Development: Chrysler 300
The shape of the mirrors - whose horizontal, slatted design visually echoes the longitudinal recess that sweeps back from the tips of the new Chrysler wing logo and through the hood - is another element that Faurote is particularly proud of: "The mirror is a detail that doesn't often get ...
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Design Development: Chrysler 300
The design took place at the company's design studio in Auburn Hills, Michigan, under the guidance of Chrysler Group design boss Ralph Gilles. Responsibility for the exterior fell to Head of Chrysler Design, Brandon Faurote, who cites the 1955 C300 and 2004 models as the major sources of inspiration behind ...
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Design Development: Opel Meriva
Chief Interior Designer Stefan Arndt stayed with the Meriva project right from its gestation at the advanced design studio in 2004, initially overseeing both the exterior and interior concept design. At that time he was head of advanced design for the Opel/Vauxhall brand, working under Advanced Design Director Anthony Lo. ...
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Design Development: Opel Meriva
There rests an unusual amount of weight on the shoulders of the next-generation Meriva - a segment-leading compact minivan that has brought over a million customers to the Opel/Vauxhall brand since its introduction in 2003. GM will be watching public reaction with baited breath when it takes the wraps off ...
