All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 8
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Show Review: Design LA
Design LA, the automotive design conference that incorporates the Design Challenge competition, has announced its winners, during this year's LA Motor Show.
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Design Development: Ford Fiesta
Proposals for adaptations of the front end were developed by the North American team when they joined the program, and these were combined with some versions from Europe; utilizing certain vehicles within the segment as benchmarks for the program:
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Design Development: Ford Fiesta
As a global product, the new Ford Fiesta is a particularly significant car for Ford. It has been designed to sell in Europe, Asia and, unusually for such a small car, in North America as well. To get the story on how Ford's first global small car was designed, Car ...
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First Sight: BMW 1 Series
A little more compact that the 3 Series (which will grow in size with next year's new model) the 1 Series effectively replaces the 3 Series-based Compact and extends the brand downward to just above the Mini.
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Design Review: Infiniti Essence concept
The interior is probably slightly further away from production reality than the exterior. The burnt umber color defines the cocoon-like luxurious passenger side of the cabin and forms the base color for the instrument panel, while the instruments appear almost to have pushed out of this main IPl on the ...
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Design Review: Infiniti Essence concept
The Essence, in its name and Gran Turismo typology, tells us much about the corporate intent behind this concept car. While it's a luscious design, it begs the question: should the essence of the Infiniti brand really be a classical high-performance sports GT?
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
"You have to change things; what you must have is the time to get the finessing you need," Gaffka points out. "George [Saridakis] is very good at this, that's what he did for one and a half years."
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
There was something rather out of step with the new Mustang’s debut at the recent LA Auto Show. Here was a new design from Ford, conceptually and thematically representing so much of what was once great about American car design, American cars and the post-war ‘baby-boomer’ period of US car ...
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Driven: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is one of the most interesting - but polarizing - car designs on the market today. The first generation 'new' Mini was a big success for BMW, despite having been such a huge leap from the original Mini design in so many ways. With the second generation ...
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Essay: Fluid Surfacing
The 2002 BMW Z4 and 2004 BMW 1 Series production designs then took flame-surfacing forwards. The 1 Series had more concave surface area along its flanks than any other production design, and a fluid-like form that went from the flank's concave surface into convex and back again around the wheelarches.
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Essay: Fluid Surfacing
The ‘T-1000 Terminator' fictional android assassin in the 1991 film ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day' introduced one of the most iconic aesthetics to the ‘bad guy' genre in films. Although appearing to be a human in every detail, the Terminator could choose to take on a liquid form because it was ...
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Designer Interview: Frank Stephenson, Director of Design Fiat, Lancia, and Group LCV
Car Design News caught up with Frank Stephenson last month in Geneva to talk about Fiat, design - and what makes one of our industry's most ebullient design directors tick!The last time we spoke with Frank he was Director of Concept Design and Development for Ferrari and Maserati. Now, and ...
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Design Review: Nissan 370Z
The 370Z shares the core hood and body side volumes of its predecessor - as well as its general proportions and profile - but its DLO is closer to that of the original Z-car design from 40 years ago. The 370 also relates to the 240Z with the proportions of ...
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Design Review: Nissan 370Z
Last year Nissan announced the long-awaited production GT-R, which we labeled ‘the defining Japanese sports car' because it is so definitively Japanese - both conceptually and aesthetically - and different to anything that could come from a European or American carmaker.
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Chris Bangle: Hero of Modern Car Design
Dig a little deeper and the disquiet so many of Bangle's peers have with his work stems from the way they think he changed what wasn't broken, in the process side-stepping the unspoken assumption that car design is all about chasing beauty. They might also have been a little piqued ...
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Chris Bangle: Hero of Modern Car Design
For 10 years Chris Bangle has been the car designer everyone loves to hate. Here was the man who gave us flame surfacing, who totally reshaped BMW form language and in the process tore up the car design rulebook.
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Design Review: Fiat Trepiuno concept
In 1994, 17 years after they sold the last Beetle in Europe, Volkswagen presented the Concept One that previewed the 'retro' production Volkswagen Beetle of 1998. In 1997 BMW showed the Spiritual, and then in 2000 the ACV30 concept, before launching the 'retro' production Mini in 2001.
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Design Review: Nissan Qazana concept
The large wheel size of the Qazana is exaggerated by the four concentric wheelarch ridges and by the blown fender volumes, but the rest of the profile is quite clean. The DLO apes that of the Murano and Qashqai with an up-sweep into the C-pillar and also curves up into ...
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Design Review: Nissan Qazana concept
The Qazana concept was probably the most impressive debut unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring a conceptually and aesthetically innovative and complete design and an innately appealing character. But its main significance is not so much as a one-off design study, but rather as a preview of a new ...
