All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 5
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Design Review: Porsche 911
It is a rare thing to look at a car for the first time without some level of ‘pre-loading'. We may never have seen the design before, but if we know its technical specification or brand we will have our views on its appearance subconsciously colored. Even the experienced car ...
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Design Review: Nissan Foria concept
Central to this is the new compact 'front-midship' platform which underpins the entire concept and dictates the car's particularly distinct proportions of long hood and short front overhang which in turn are emphasised by the slightly sixties coupe theme of upright windscreen, tall glasshouse, static beltline and low tail. At ...
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Design Review: Nissan Foria concept
In recent years Japanese premium cars have emulated some of the central ingredients of successful European premium brand cars. Some Lexus cars are conceptual, if not aesthetic, facsimiles of contemporary Mercedes-Benz cars, and arguably Nissan's front mid-ship platform based range (350Z, Skyline / Infiniti G35 and Fuga / Infiniti M), ...
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Design Review: Aston Martin Lagonda concept
Disregarding the typology and slightly malevolent design theme, the Lagonda's aesthetic still clearly suffers from a rushed development - something that is perhaps most evident in the car's unresolved secondary proportions and volumes. The area between the rear wheel and the DLO is particularly guilty in this regard: the side ...
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Interview: Franz von Holzhausen, Senior Design Executive, Tesla Motors
"Here it's actually creating all of those things. The challenge is also not having the infrastructure and tools and people instantly available when normally you have all these resources in place already. So we've been kind of building a team and a program and a brand all at the same ...
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Interview: Franz von Holzhausen, Senior Design Executive, Tesla Motors
Franz von Holzhausen is Senior Design Executive at one of the most unusual car companies in the world: Tesla. Part owned by CEO Elon Musk - who made his fortune with PayPal - the company is the only American manufacturer of a series production electric car: the Lotus Elise-based Tesla ...
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Design Review: Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept
The interior design was lead by Mattijs van Tuijl with colour and trim by Simona Falcinella assisted by Sabine Lapine, and in theme is more cabriolet than SUV. The white leather with laser-etched pattern on the seats along with the almost delicate two spoke steering wheel and calm forms give ...
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Design Review: Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept
Audi is not the first brand that comes to mind if you're thinking about SUVs. The Q7 is the company's first and it is only two years old, but this SUV/crossover (in the US it's labeled a crossover, in Europe it's marketed as an SUV) has outsold many established competitors. ...
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Design Review: Ferrari California
Inside, the car is more conventional Ferrari with the only notable innovations being the integration of all minor control interfaces within the central digital display area and the center tunnel, which has an unusual element suspended over a small storage area where once there would have been a gear selector; ...
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Design Review: Ferrari California
Only 104 of the original Ferrari California were made from 1957-62, the new California is expected to sell at more than a hundred times this rate. This huge difference is mostly because 50 years ago the world was a poorer place, but it is also because the original California was ...
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Design Review: Buick Riviera concept
Some of the more notable exterior design features include the windscreen that sweeps back over the roof to incorporate the rear screen; the Buick roundel style motif in rear trunk lid; headlamp graphics that bleed back to a horizontal surface; and a satin finish DLO surround with discreet door opener. ...
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Design Review: Buick Riviera concept
The first Buick Riviera was announced in October 1962, penned by exterior designer Ed Nickles and interior designer George Moon under the direction of Bill Mitchell. It was intended as a luxury four-seat coupe and a figurehead for General Motor's Buick brand. The 1971 'boat-tail' Riviera continued the theme into ...
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Design Review: Hyundai HCD10 Hellion concept
These two defining areas of proportions and form are the Hellion's big-hitting statements. But there are other aspects of its design that fit with its concept and are interesting in their own right.
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Design Review: Hyundai HCD10 Hellion concept
The Sports Utility is dead; long live the Crossover. Whilst not wholly true, this is pretty much the message that we're hearing in the US and Europe. The original Jeep, Landrover or Landcruiser-type SUV, which was truly engineered to travel off the roads, is now commonly regarded as a signifier ...
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Essay: Confederate Motors
Working directly in Solid Works, Jacobs designs every single element of the bike. Once completed digitally, its parts are machined and put together as a running prototype with little or no intermediate stage beyond the occasional hand modeling of some elements in foam or clay to explore ideas and resolve ...
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Essay: Confederate Motors
Car design is one of the most sophisticated crafts of the industrial age. The development of theme, refinement of form and the integration with many other disciplines working on a design program is unprecedented. A consequence of this very specific role in such an evolved and massive industrial process is ...
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Design Development: Volkswagen Polo
As is often the case, the interior design program ran a couple of months behind the exterior but was then pushed to run in parallel and went straight from sketch stage to full-size model and digital. Run by Tomasz Bachorski, the interior program adopted a design theme very closely related ...
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Design Development: Volkswagen Polo
The fifth-generation Volkswagen Polo is the first all-new production design since the current Volkswagen design management team - consisting of Walter de'Silva, Head of Volkswagen Group Design; Flavio Manzoni, Head of Creative Design for the Volkswagen Group; and Klaus Bischoff, Head of Design for the Volkswagen brand - was established ...
