All articles by Artur Grisanti Mausbach
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The value of regional design centers: Ford EcoSport
The new Ford EcoSport was simultaneously unveiled at New Delhi Auto Show and at a presentation in the Brazilian capital Brasilia, earlier this year. The concept previews the latest generation of the best selling compact SUV in Brazil, where it has led the market in the South American country for ...
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Venice Biennale 2010
The Venice Biennale is one of, if not the, foremost event in the international arts calendar. Consisting of art, architecture, cinema, dance, music and theatre exhibitions, the Biennale is one of the most interesting festivals held every other year. The simple fact that it is located in this amazing Italian ...
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Design Review: Fiat Palio
The exterior also explores the relative upmarket position of the Palio using less unpainted plastic and a chrome details above the grille - referencing the 500 and second generation Punto. The Palio also sports the grille from the latter, which despite being bigger than technically necessary, is aesthetically very well ...
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Design Review: Fiat Palio
Fiat Brazil unveiled the new Palio in November, replacing the successful supermini hatchback that sold more than 2.5 million examples in the Brazilian market alone. The original Palio, internally called project 178, derived from the 1990s Punto's platform, had a reinforced structure to suit rougher roads than those of Western ...
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Common Ground: 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale
The impressive exhibition of Peru presents the project for a new city in the arid Pacific desert of northern Peru, enable by a twenty-kilometre tunnel across the Andes and a hydraulic megaproject. The area was occupied five thousand years ago by pre-Incan civilizations that used to portrait their everyday life ...
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Common Ground: 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale
The 2012 biennale discusses the relation between people, buildings and cities, and the way knowledge, planned or naturally growth environments, mould our civil society and design culture. Even the displays of star architects like Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid demonstrate that every great groundbreaking design is supported by consistent studies ...
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Exhibition Report: Giugiaro - 45 Anos de Design Italiano at Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo
São Paulo's Museu da Casa Brasileira - one of Brazil's most important design museums - has dedicated an exhibition to the celebration of Italdesign Giugiaro's 45th anniversary. Car Design News sent its Brazilian correspondent along for a closer look.
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Thinking Automotive Design 2011
Fassbender closed the first day of conference with a teaser of project Mio. The open-source concept, presented later by Fiat design leader Paulo Nakamura is one of the best examples of integrating costumers on product development.
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Thinking Automotive Design 2011
The largest and most important education and research institution of Brazil, the University of São Paulo (USP), has a long tradition of teaching architecture and urban planning through a strong Modernist root. At the same time, the progressiveness of the academic structure always allowed students to take many different directions ...
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São Paulo Motor Show 2012 - Trends and overview
The HB20 is the first Hyundai developed specially for the Brazilian market and is produced in a new manufacturing plant in Piracicaba, São Paulo state. The car was developed in South Korea, but Hyundai's marketing and design departments worked closely with those in Brazil to understand the local consumers, which ...
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São Paulo Motor Show 2012 - Trends and overview
On the other hand, despite the number of local companies that helped to build the Nissan Extrem concept, its only Brazilian aspect - the use of painted graphics reproducing Ipanema Beach pavement on the roof - doesn't add up. It was disappointing to see that Nissan hasn't benefited from a ...
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São Paulo Motor Show 2012 - Trends and overview
The São Paulo motor show is locally called 'Salão do Automóvel', however, from this year on it deserves to be referred to it by its official name - Salão Internacional do Automóvel. This is the year the show came of age, not only because of Brazil's economic strength, but also ...
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Why small sedans are the next big thing in South America
Despite the recent boom of the Brazilian economy and a growing middle class population being able to buy their first car, new cars are still relatively expensive in the country. As Car Design News reported in our 2012 São Paulo motor show coverage, the initial development of the market has ...
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Nissan strengthens Brazil connections with new design studio
Nissan has opened a new design studio in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Located within Nissan Brazil's headquarters, Nissan Design America - Rio (NDA-R) is operated as a satellite of the firm's studio in San Diego, California.
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Karmann-Ghia Coupé redesigned by Brazilian students
The winners of the Karmann-Ghia Brazilian student competition to design a modern interpretation of its classic Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia Coupé have been revealed.
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Brazilian students develop soapbox racers for Volkswagen
Brazilian design students have competed for year-long internships at Volkswagen's Brazilian design studio by designing - and racing - soapbox cars.
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Brazilian VW design director Luiz Veiga celebrates the Beetle in art exhibition
Earlier this month ‘Luiz Veiga: Tempos de Fusca' (Beetle Times) opened at the small OMA gallery in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. This exhibition proves not only a celebration of the Volkswagen icon, but also an opportunity to learn a little more about one of its exhibitors - Volkswagen Brazil's ...
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How South America designed the Ford Ka
The Ka Concept was shown at the São Paulo auto show in Brazil in November 2013, and was revealed in production form last week. It marks the first time the Ka has reflected the broader brand homogeneity of the 'One Ford' design strategy, and continues the Ka's shift in direction ...
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Building the brand identity of Brazil's home-grown off-roader
Ford's South American design studio in Camaçari, Brazil, has already completed two 'One Ford' global projects, the EcoSport crossover, and the Ka compact. But the replacement for the Troller T4, a basic 4x4 solely for the Brazilian market, has presented a different challenge to the design team led by Joao ...