Opinion – Page 3
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ArticleWatch: Is the future of automotive design in software?
This CDN livestream featured speakers from Volvo, Bugatti Rimac, TomTom and The Qt Company. We discuss how automotive designers are using connected technologies in informing design decisions.
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WebinarWatch: What’s next for the sports car?
Watch this livestream where we explore the future of the sportscar through the lens of styling, technology, lighting, UX and sustainability
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ArticleOpinion: Peak button to peak screen
From peak button to peak screen (and everything in between), Wayne Batty takes a canter through the last 20 years of interiors
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ArticleTo mark its 20th anniversary Interior Motives returns to print
Twenty years is a long time in design. Interior Motives editor James McLachlan looks back at what was happening in the world at the time and what has changed
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ArticleBook review: Vintage Works – a car designer’s sketchbook
Tim Pilsbury’s books have charmed us for years at CDN, from his instructive guides to automotive interiors to this series of sketch diaries, Pilsbury brings his perspective to bear on automotive classics as well as his personal favourites
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WebinarWatch: Back to the Future of Interiors
Watch this Car Design News livestream featuring General Motors, Group Lotus and Lawrence Technological University as they reflect on changing interiors over the last 20 years and as they look ahead to the next 20.
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ArticleWhat has happened to Audi design?
(Single)Framing the rise and decline of design kings, Audi. Design critic Wayne Batty is unconvinced by the Bauhaus aspirations of the German marque’s ’Sphere series
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ArticleReview: Motion – Autos, Art, Architecture
Curated by architect Norman Foster, Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture at the Guggenheim Bilbao is an visually stunning and elegiac tribute to the golden age of the automobile
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ArticleDesign industry survey reveals frustrations with decision-making process
An industry survey has revealed frustrations with slow decision-making and poor communication in the design process
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ArticleThe design process gets a thorough examination in the latest Konzepthaus report
Konzepthaus report examines the organisation of design teams, with detail on the relationship between employees and supervisors
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ArticleOrganisation and leadership under microscope in Konzepthaus report
Konzepthaus report examines the organisation of design teams, with detail on the relationship between employees and supervisors
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WebinarReinventing Luxury with Chris Bangle
At the recent Pratt Institute Design Symposium 2021 on Re-Inventing Luxury held at the Whitney Museum in New York City, car designer and thinker Chris Bangle shared his thoughts on creating a new narrative around luxury design. Car Design News publishes his talk here
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ArticleKonzepthaus report covers employment development in car design
Salary information and details on career development in car design are among the central topics of this new report from Konzepthaus
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ArticleOpinion: a brand story untold – Mercedes’ EQS
Telling the brand story will be the most important task for car designers in the future as electrification, urbanisation, congestion and developments around self-driving cars will conspire to curtail the driving experience. Thus, the brand story will soon be the only truly differentiating USP. Niels van Roij examines the Mercedes-Benz EQS in this light
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ArticleAn interview with Karl Smith, author of Brave New Car
A new publication by longtime Car Design News contributor Karl Smith looks at the future of the car, examining how electrification, autonomy, fresh ideas around luxury, interior concepts can offer a way out of the current cul de sac we find ourselves in
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ArticleOpinion: Secret design sauce comes from expert artistry
Car design is shrowded in mystery, with brands pedalling an intangible narrative that detracts from the talent and expertise of highly skilled professionals
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ArticleWatch: Autodesk discusses future trends in automotive digital design tools
Autodesk examines current and future trends in digital Design tools, how they can aid the creative process and why we haven’t yet seen the full effect of the pandemic on the design industry
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ArticleOpinion: Rollin’ coal, culture wars and Ford’s ‘Truck of the Future’
In the United States, the ICE versus EV debate became a battleground in an ongoing culture war. But as more and more combustion era icons go electric, can design help cut through the noise and usher in a new automotive culture?
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ArticleOpinion: The car remains king in Barratt Homes Britain
From automation, EVs and new ideas of urbanism – the role of the car is under question when it comes to urban centres. Venture outside metropolitan areas and you will find a new suburbia designed and built with the car at its heart. Good news for any OEMs wedded to the status quo but a challenge for proponents of new ideas of mobility
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ArticleOpinion: Transforming old into new
Revered retrofit architects Lacaton & Vassal’s recent Pritzker Prize win poses some interesting questions for car designers, writes CDN editor James McLachlan