All articles by Owen Ready – Page 10
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Paris Motor Show retrospective
The 2014 Paris motor show begins this week. But while most attention is focused on the concept and production cars that will premiere at the Porte de Versailles venue, Car Design News has been taking a look back at some of the landmark vehicles unveiled at past editions of France's ...
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Video: Road & Track presents The Five Minute Car Design with Tom Matano
Tom Matano - designer of the Mazda MX-5 and executive director of industrial design at Academy of Art University - is the subject of Road & Track's second ‘The Five Minute Car Design' video feature.
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Citroën DS Numéro 9 set to woo new Chinese bourgeoisie [w/video]
The Citroën DS Numéro 9, which will make its debut at the Beijing auto show, marks a return of luxury French motoring - a segment the nation has shied away from in recent years. This follows the poor sales of cars such as the Renault Vel Satis, Peugeot 607 and ...
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Pierre Authier: I'm not moving to Opel/Vauxhall
As the ongoing General Motors designer saga continues, the latest Opel/Vauxhall Vice President of Design elect, Pierre Authier has taken his name off the shortlist for the Rüsselsheim.
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IED collaborates with McLaren to create the crossovers of 2020
The 33, third-year post-diploma Transportation Design students were briefed by McLaren Automotive design director, Frank Stephenson, to create a car capable of 'combining sports excellence, driving thrills and the McLaren performance characteristics both off- and on-road'.
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Chris Bangle to receive EyesOn Design Lifetime Design Achievement Award
Chris Bangle is to receive a Lifetime Design Achievement Award from EyesOn Design.
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Design Contest: Renault UK launches Twizy student design competition
We all know how expensive higher education is, so the chance to win up to £9,000 towards UK tuition fees in return for submitting graphic designs for the Renault Twizy sounds very appealing.
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NAIAS 2011 Trends and Overview
In the larger D-segment, Volkswagen also launched its assault on the Koreans, with the new, US-market Passat taking on the Kia Optima and Hyundai Sonata. While its predecessor followed its European twin as a sub-premium proposition, the 2012 US Passat is hoping to major on value, ...
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NAIAS 2011 Trends and Overview
The North American International Auto Show 2011 kicked off the automotive calendar in its usual chilly style in Detroit. While widely believed to have the most optimistic such event, post-'carpocalypse', there were fewer product unveilings than we've come to expect at the premier North American auto show.
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Driven: BMW 6 Series convertible
Every large BMW coupe - from the E9 3.0 CS, through the shark-nosed E24 6 Series, Claus Luthe's beautiful E31 8 Series, right up to the outgoing, Bangle-era E63 6er - has had an exoticism beyond every other car in the brand's range. We drove the latest from the most ...
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Design Development: Yanfeng Visteon Glide
Those who attended our Designers' Night in Beijing earlier in the year will have seen the Yanfeng Visteon Glide concept car, a car many thought one of the best displayed throughout the whole motor show period.
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CDN - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition deadline extended
The deadline for the 2012 Car Design News - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition has been extended until midnight (00:00 GMT) Friday 11 May.
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Paris Motor Show 2010 Trends & Overview
This year's Paris motor show was heralded as the most optimistic shows of recent times, with seemingly more concept cars gracing the halls of the Porte de Versailles than the rest of the year's shows combined, continuing the upswing in morale we witnessed in Geneva.
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Paris Motor Show 2010 Trends & Overview
The popularization of aggression is a rather contentious issue throughout the industry. While some - most notably Peugeot and Renault - appear to by reigning in the villainous faces, one designer told us that his brand’s car must be “as aggressive as possible” to underline their ‘sporty’ status. We’d like to argue that ‘aggressive’ and ‘sporty’ can be mutually exclusive and would have pointed in t
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Studio Tour: Yanfeng Visteon, Shanghai
The design work of Tier 1 suppliers has rarely been the subject of CDN's attention, but their significance in the development of the Chinese car market has been too great to ignore. Our recent visit to Shanghai provided the perfect opportunity to catch up with the biggest company in the ...
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Video: BMW’s beautiful Design Portrait of Karim Habib
We're often inundated with videos from OEMs. Many are thinly-disguised PR-laden party political broadcasts but occasionally we're presented with gems such as this Design Portrait of Karim Habib from BMW.
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College Exhibition: LTU Degree Show 2010
Lawrence Technological University (LTU) celebrated its third annual Transportation Design Show earlier this month. The third year (Junior), second year (Sophomore) and first year (Freshman) classes all presented projects at the event.
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Concept Car of the Week: Saab Aero X
In January 2005 Bryan Nesbitt, then-executive director of GM Europe Design, charged the 15-strong Saab Advanced design team in Gothenburg, Sweden, to create the "ultimate vision of the brand".
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Video: Chris Bangle delivers “Empowerment: Design without Designers” talk at Creative Mornings/London
Chris Bangle - the undisputed front man of car design - needs little introduction, so the prospect of the former BMW Design Director and now founder of Chris Bangle Associates giving a talk in our home town of London was too good to pass up.
