All articles by Joe Simpson – Page 8
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Design Review: Toyota RAV4
First seen LA Auto Show, November 2012Type Mid-sized SUVLength 4,570mmWidth 1,845mmHeight 1,660mmWheelbase 2,660mm
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Interview: Jason Castriota, Director, Jason Castriota Designs
What makes you different? What's your unique approach to design?
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Interview: Jason Castriota, Director, Jason Castriota Designs
Jason Castriota's story reads like the stuff of boyhood dreams. Born and raised in New York, he spent hours sketching Ferraris growing up. A few years later, while still in the midst of a transportation design degree at Art Center College of Art and Design, Castriota was offered first an ...
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Art Center Summit 2008
Many called for designers and entrepreneurs to lead the way in creating a vision of the future consumers could buy into. Little new was said about how this might be achieved by designers often working in a client driven, risk-averse corporate world and short-term, vote-focused politicians working within a four ...
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Art Center Summit 2008
Sustainability is a hot topic in the automotive world right now, so it's encouraging to see Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California - famed for its transportation design course - determined to position itself as a leading institution on the subject.
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CDN-GM Interactive Competition launched
The Car Design News - GM Interactive Competition interior design phase has launched and is now accepting uploads from students studying any kind of design course in North America and Canada. You can register and upload an initial entry right now at www.cardesigncontest.com
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Driven: Volvo S60
Volvo has long been synonymous with safety. Yet safety has become mainstream; an attribute all brands own. Normal 0 false false false ...
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Design Development: Mercedes-Benz Biome concept
It's true that the car has a very impressive quality in the flesh, the scale is hard to read from photos. The proportions are extreme, with the vehicle's chosen layout being a strong determining factor.
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Design Development: Mercedes-Benz Biome concept
The LA Design Challenge is a highlight of the LA Auto show. Many impressive ideas and concepts have been developed (predominantly by the advanced design studios based on the West Coast) over the past years of the competition, but until now, none have ever been realized as a 1:1 concept.
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Interview: Erik Goplen, Creative Director, BMW DesignworksUSA
Tells us more about your story
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Interview: Erik Goplen, Creative Director, BMW DesignworksUSA
Many designers have carved an interesting path to achieve their dreams of working in the automotive industry. Some have had a mentor who helped them along the way, others developed their skill and portfolios to reach their goals, and others had their ambition and passion interspersed with a bit of ...
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Driven: Renault Clio 4
Having pioneered the ‘small car, big-car features' trend with original version, Renault has sold over 12 million Clios since the model was launched in 1991. The box-fresh ‘91 Clio RT Renault displayed alongside its successors at the launch of the Clio 4 is testament to what a successful formula was ...
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Video: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition featured by Faces of GM
‘Faces of GM', one of General Motor's social media initiaives, tells the story of the people behind the brands of GM. Its latest video features our recent collaborative contest, the CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition. It stars several of the winning students as well as the prize giving event which took ...
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Interview: Adrian Van Hooydonk, Director of Design, BMW Group
What, in terms of the future - is the thing to watch in your view? In the past few month's we've watched Ford introduce HMI specifically for electric cars and Audi says that what it's doing with in-car technology is going to be the primary thing keeping it ahead of ...
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Interview: Adrian Van Hooydonk, Director of Design, BMW Group
We're also interested in the way that 'i' is going to play against the traditional BMW brand, and also Mini...
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Interview: Adrian Van Hooydonk, Director of Design, BMW Group
Since we last interviewed Adrian Van Hooydonk, much has happened: he replaced Chris Bangle as Director of BMW Design; BMW launched several important new models, including the 5 and 6 series and Rolls Royce Ghost; and Mini's brand has expanded. Meanwhile, Gert Hildebrand departed Mini to be replaced by Anders ...
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Wulin Gaowa on GM’s new Chinese Advanced Design Studio
Following on from our story in September about Wulin Gaowa's appointment to GM Design as Director of its China Advanced Design, the company has released more details about the new studio and an interview with the designer.
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Auto Shanghai 2011- Trends & Overview
Clearly PSA's growing Chinese studio is paying dividends, for sister brand Peugeot's impressive SXC was another concept that appears well conceived for this market. It successfully continues the design theme started by the SR1 - and continued with the HR1 - and is proof that Peugeot's design renaissance is gaining ...
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Auto Shanghai 2011- Trends & Overview
Demonstrating China's automotive force, the 14th Auto Shanghai went head-to-head with the New York Auto Show in 2011, and won. New York has become a second-tier show, and the fact it played host to little more than a new Lexus concept contrasts starkly with the myriad of concept and production ...
