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Nicholas David on Karma’s vision for the Kaveya

At Goodwood 2025, Karma Automotive’s Design VP, Nicholas David, revealed how the forthcoming Kaveya aims to rewrite the rulebook for electric performance vehicles — from proportion-driven aesthetics to theatrical lighting and hidden mechanism

James McLachlan

Designer Interviews: Amko Leenarts, Ford’s global director of interior design

Ford’s global interiors director talks design from the comforts of a deli in downtown Detroit

Bart Laenarts

Martin Longmore on the life of a contract designer, the challenge of motorcycle design and the real story behind the Audi TT

We talk to one of the most experienced, yet unrecognised, freelance designers

Owen Ready

Q&A with CDN Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Syd Mead

Syd Mead, a truly worthy recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, his work still resonates in anime and automotive creative circles

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 18: Gilles Vidal, Peugeot

“We need to make sacrifices in the way we design things where you can’t see it, and really emphasise what the client can see”

Guy Bird

‘Don’t call it retirement’ – Ed Welburn on life after GM’s top design job

Q&A with the outgoing vice president of design at General Motors

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 17: Nicola Crea, Coventry University

“We don’t need traditional designers, we need people with new perspectives and open minds”

Ryan Borroff

The Designers Pt 16: Michael Robinson, ED Design

“My feeling was, don’t get mad, get even…”

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 14: Richard Chung, Yanfeng

“It was a merger of two winners to create the biggest interiors company in the world”

Guy Bird

Q&A: Sonja Vandenberk, Ford Europe’s chief colour and materials designer, on how Vignale will evolve

Executing Vignale: How Ford intends to take its premium sub-brand forward

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 11: Gerry McGovern, Land Rover

“When I started out all I wanted to do was draw cars, but you get more respect from the business if you understand the bigger picture”

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 10: Anthony Lo, Renault

“In 2010 we had a clean sheet to do whatever we wanted, but now we need to play more carefully”

Guy Bird

The Designers Pt 9: Lea Thomas Smith, Lear

“Whatever we come up with as a design, we have the ability to get produced”

Guy Bird

Designer Interviews: Continental AG’s HMI design team

Automotive supplier designers on how good design is essential when introducing new tech

Bart Laenarts

The Designers Pt 5: Pratap Bose, Tata

Tata’s head of design talks us through the challenges facing car design in the coming years

Ryan Borroff

Design Development: Klaus Tritschler on how the Icon A5 was designed like a car

VP of design on how car design processes were used to create Icon’s new plane

Tom Phillips

The Designers Pt3: Seon-Ho Yeon, Kia

How ensuring the needs of the user are met is at the heart of Kia design

Guy Bird

Designer Interview: Kazuo Suyama, Toyota Kikai project manager

Getting under the skin of Toyota’s sci-fi, steampunk show car

Jon Winding-Sorensen

Designer Interviews: Sally Erickson Wilson, College for Creative Studies

Chair of colour and materials design programme at CCS talks the future of the automotive interior

Karl Smith

Designer Interviews: Taru Lahti

The Ghia Focus concept designer talks about his career at Ford, and a gift from grandma that started it all

Karl Smith

Q&A with Joel Piaskowski, Ford of Europe’s director of design

Ford designer Joel Piaskowski talks millennials, bringing a little of the US to Europe, and filling some big shoes

Nick Hull

The Designers Pt13 – Laurens van den Acker, Renault Group

Renault’s VP of design discusses the process of rethinking design icons, and introducing a new lifecycle of concepts

Guy Bird

Q&A with Giorgetto Giugiaro on his lifetime of design

Car Design News’ Lifetime Achievement Award winner talks us through his illustrious and lengthy career

Guy Bird

Designer Interviews: Chris Bangle on his work with Sanlorenzo super yachts

Chris Bangle discusses how boat design is “the last bastion of having the freedom to do what you want”

Ryan Borroff

Designer Interview: Julian Thomson and his ‘Super Elise’

Jaguar designer Julian Thomson talks us through his plans for a reimagined Series 1 Elise