All articles by Brett Patterson
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Audi exhibits a design study for a super sports car
Sep 7, 2000 - The ‘Autostadt’ in Wolfsburg - Audi’s pavilion is in darkness. Then the spotlights come on and a car appears that is surely not of this world - at least, that’s the first impression it creates.
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Hongik University's transportation design process
Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, is one of the preeminent design schools in the country with a diverse range of programs. But the school's transportation design department has also developed a unique approach for concept ideation.
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Design and Technology at Siggraph 2007
One of the most enthralling parts of Siggraph is the Emerging Technologies area, which features a broad range of installations from research labs, universities, independents, and industry giants that explore the dynamics between humans and digital systems.
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Design and Technology at Siggraph 2007
From 5-9 August, over 24000 artists, designers, research scientists, developers, filmmakers, and academics gathered in San Diego, California, for the 34th Siggraph Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The Siggraph conference and exhibition ranges from several days of highly technical courses and academic paper presentations, through to hands-on demos ...
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Seat opens new Global Design Center
Seat has opened its new Global Design Center, located within the Technical Center close to its manufacturing operations in Martorell, near Barcelona. A week of opening celebrations culminated with an event on Nov 8 for designers from the fields of architecture, fashion, industry, advertising, communication, art and photography, as well ...
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Umeå Institute of Design Degree Show 2008
Masters students at Sweden's Umeå University Institute of Design exhibited their final projects in the annual Degree Exhibition in early June. This year 38 students exhibited their work, including 7 from MA Transportation Design, 5 from MA Advanced Product Design, 6 from MA Interaction Design and a further 20 from ...
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Design and Technology at Siggraph 2008
From 11-15 August over 28,000 artists, research scientists, developers, filmmakers, and academics from around the world gathered in Los Angeles for the 35th Siggraph Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The Siggraph conference includes courses and technical paper presentations, new technologies demos, an art gallery, computer animation festival, ...
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Autodesk European Automotive Days 2008
The 2008 Autodesk European Automotive Days conference was held last week in Munich, bringing together 200 automotive design and visualization experts. Autodesk presented their strategy and vision for industrial design, with an emphasis on 'digital prototyping', where even at the concept stage the digital model is treated not just as ...
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Strate Collège Degree Show 2008
Strate Collège in central Paris held its annual Degree Show June 18-19, displaying works from students graduating from the Industrial Design programs. Twelve students from the Transportation Design program presented their work.
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Art Center College of Design Summer Show 2007
Fisker Sports Coupe - Tony Kyung Hoon LeeThis sports coupe is proposed as the first Fisker to have it's own chassis, using a light-weight space frame and the BMW M6 V10 engine. The challenge of this project was to push the Fisker brand to another level and further develop the ...
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Art Center College of Design Summer Show 2007
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, held its summer semester show in August, one of three graduation shows per year. The show featured work from 14 graduating students in the Bachelor of Science - Transportation Design program.
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Art Center Summer Show 2008
Lexus New ZeitakuGary ShiuInspired by icons of Japanese youth culture with a touch of leading-edge international design the Lexus New Zeitaku addresses social conditions of a new generation while maintaining an air of elegance. 'New Luxury for New Money'.
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Art Center Summer Show 2008
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, held its summer semester show in August, one of three graduation shows per year. The show featured work from 10 graduating students in the Bachelor of Science - Transportation Design program. A selection of the projects are outlined below.
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Pforzheim University Winter Degree Show 2009
In the process of the form development, Seo sought to attain the dynamics and stance required for a vehicle in this segment while retaining the integral leaf theme. Aside from the overall shape, Seo applied a vein-like structure to the vehicle while applying the different look of the front and ...
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Pforzheim University Winter Degree Show 2009
Transportation Design students at Germany's Pforzheim University displayed their work in the school's summer degree show last month, one of two graduation shows held every year by the renowned college. The exhibition included work from graduating Diploma and Masters students, first- and second-semester Masters students, as well as exterior and ...
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Pforzheim University Summer Show 2007
Honda Project: 'A road car for Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello'
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Pforzheim University Summer Show 2007
Transportation Design students at Germany's Pforzheim University displayed their work in the school's summer degree show held in July, one of two graduation shows per year. The exhibition included work from graduating Diploma and Masters students, a Honda project by MA students, and a Renault exterior and interior project by ...
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International Transport Design Forum 2008
The biennial International Transportation Design Forum at Pforzheim University in Germany took place on July 10, with five international design schools coming together to present and discuss the latest work of their students. Held this year at the Congress Center Pforzheim, the Design Forum was held in conjunction with the ...