All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 9
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Driven: Nissan Qashqai
On our increasingly congested roads and in our road rage aware society, there is a silent majority of drivers who don't want to feel they are being brow beaten by other road users. They don't want to make an aggressive or otherwise conspicuous statement with their car, they just want ...
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Interview: Roberto Giolito, Head of Design, Fiat Group Automobiles
CDN: So how many people are on your design team?
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Interview: Roberto Giolito, Head of Design, Fiat Group Automobiles
Roberto Giolito has worked at Fiat as a designer for nearly twenty years, starting when Chris Bangle headed Fiat design in 1989, then becoming Director of Design in 2007 after having been head of Advanced Design since 2001. Giolito was the designer of the Downtown concept of 1993, the ZIC ...
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Design Review: Ford Iosis concept
It's not often that a concept car is used so explicitly as a statement of intent from a brand's new design director, but that's just what this new concept car from Ford of Europe is doing. As Executive Director of Design at Ford of Europe since February last year, Martin ...
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Design Review: Ford Iosis concept
Many of these elements are developed from those within the SAV, as are some of the other details that will likely become part of the portfolio of production Ford design signifiers; the faceted lower line to front and rear screens, the deep side swage line (not wholly dissimilar to the Mercedes Benz B-class), the dynamic sweep and kick up to the DLO, the inverted trapezoidal lower grille, the graph
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Interior Motives China Conference 2007
There are 1.3 billion people in China, with 38 million cars between them. 7 million new cars were sold last year, nearly 9 million are expected to sell this year - a growth rate of over 25%. Of the 140 different Chinese car companies, the top ten are responsible for ...
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Interview: Martin Smith, Design Director, Ford of Europe
CDN: How have you changed over time as a designer?
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Interview: Martin Smith, Design Director, Ford of Europe
Martin Smith joined Ford Europe in November 2004 as Executive Director of Design, coming straight from GM Europe. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1973, Smith worked at Porsche for two years before spending much of his career at Audi and then going to GM in 1997. ...
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Design Essay: Copycat Car Design
Similar but different to the Mongrels which appear to use multiple elements from existing designs, are the Mutants that look like exact replicas of existing designs, but then introduce one distinctly different new element. The whole range of Great Wall cars are good examples of this, in particular the i7 ...
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Design Essay: Copycat Car Design
Cars all look alike these days goes the popular saying. But, these days some car designs really do look very similar to others...Walk down the main street in a major Chinese city and, if you're a westerner in particular, you will be propositioned by sellers openly trading in counterfeit watches ...
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Design Review: Opel Corsa
Last year at the Frankfurt motor show the new Fiat Punto, Renault Clio, and Toyota Yaris were announced; three important new European B-sector cars. Earlier this year at Geneva the sector's best selling Peugeot 206 was replaced by the 207 and over the next twelve months Ford will show its ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
CDN: What makes Opel unique in design?"Maybe in the past it was a bit too focussed on functionality, so what we're trying to do now is really keep the functionality, in fact dial the functionality up several notches, but not let it compromise design. The design language that you're starting ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
On June 1st this year, Mark Adams became Vice-President of Design at GM Europe where he is charged with heading the newly-established GM Europe Design organization, including the Russelsheim-based GM Europe Design Center. He is responsible for the design of GM's European brands: Opel, Vauxhall and Saab, as well as ...
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Interview: Prof. Peter Pfeiffer, Senior Vice President of Design, Mercedes-Benz
CDN: What do you do that is unique in your position as Senior Vice President of Design?
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Interview: Prof. Peter Pfeiffer, Senior Vice President of Design, Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz has one of the strongest design heritages of any car brand; all of its established model lines have progressed as evolutions of their predecessors and they in turn share key design cues with their siblings for a uniquely consistent design identity. This much is well known, but Mercedes also ...
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Design Development: Audi A8
In parallel to the exterior design development the interior design was progressed with a total of four full size models produced and the production car's horizontally themed instrument panel design dominant from early on, with Norbert Schneider, Mark Bergold and Enzo Rothfuss the main contributing designers.
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Design Development: Audi A8
Every vehicle design development story is unique, but the development of the new Audi A8 is in many ways an archetypal example of a new vehicle design programme, touching on so many of the issues that impact on the vehicle design process.
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, VP Advanced Global Design, Mercedes-Benz
CDN: What would you say is your unique approach to design - what do you do differently to other senior designers in similar positions?
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, VP Advanced Global Design, Mercedes-Benz
The car design profession is unlike that of other design or automotive disciplines in that there are many talented and productive car designers whose work never sees the light of day. With most production design programs seeing close competition between half a dozen to a dozen different design proposals at ...
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First Sight: Mercedes-Benz A-Class
The first generation A-Class was the first front wheel drive passenger car from Mercedes-Benz and its first compact hatchback. Its revolutionary packaging and infamous encounter with an elk made a big impact in 1997, and since then over a million have been sold.
