All Design Essays articles – Page 2
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ArticleDesign Essay: The Strange Allure of Ugliness
Are tastes changing, or is taste simply disappearing? We try not to cover our eyes…
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ArticleDesign Essay: Could the Electric Revolution save the Sports Car?
Could the flexibility, modularity and lower production costs of electric vehicle platforms be the sports car’s unlikely saviour?
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ArticleThe Timeless Relevance of Syd Mead
A retrospective on one of the most distinctive and inspirational designers we’ve ever seen.
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ArticleThe Lasting Appeal of Syd Mead’s Turn-X Gundam
With the recent announcement the Syd Mead is winding down his design activities for good, we’ve found ourselves reflecting once more upon the famed visual futurist’s incomparable career, such as ths Turn-X Gundam fight-suit design
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ArticleBook review: Design between the lines
Patrick Le Quément is a seminal designer who has worked at Simca, Ford, VW and Renault. This collection of essays is a tour de force through the design world of half a century and should be essential reading for anyone interested in design.
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ArticleHow to be a car designer Pt5: The (job) interview
Professional car designer and transportation design teacher Luciano Bove offers aspiring car designers advice on how to make a career out of car design and get into a university which teaches transportation design. This series of articles is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a professional car designer. In this article we look at preparing for the job interview
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ArticleHow to be a car designer Pt4: Your portfolio
Professional Car Designer and transportation design teacher Luciano Bove offers aspiring car designers advice on how to make a career out of car design and get into a university which teaches transportation design. This series of articles is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a professional car designer. In this feature we examine the art of building a strong automotive design portfolio
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ArticleHow to be a car designer part 3: Going to design school
Professional Car Designer and transportation design teacher Luciano Bove offers aspiring car designers advice on how to make a career out of car design and get into a university which teaches transportation design. This series of articles is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a professional car designer. In this featue he offers advice on how to make the most of your time at university and put yourself first in line for a job in car design
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ArticleHow to be a car designer part 2: Starting design school
Professional Car Designer and transportation design teacher Luciano Bove offers aspiring car designers advice on how to make a career out of car design and get into a university which teaches transportation design. This series of articles is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a professional car designer
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ArticleHow to be a car designer Part 1: Turning passion into a profession
Professional Car Designer and transportation design teacher Luciano Bove offers aspiring car designers advice on how to make a career out of car design and get into a university which teaches transportation design. This series of articles is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a professional car designer
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ArticleDesign Essay: What is a ‘luxury’ car?
With more and more brands going upmarket, it is worth examining this often-misused term…
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ArticleDesign Essay: Are ‘Responsible’ Cars the Future?
We took a look at why a holistic view of a vehicle’s environmental and social impact is needed when developing the cars of the future
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ArticleVision Gran Turismo – The Cars
(This was originally a bonus section attached to our essay about how car design and video games have overlapped in recent years, which you can read here.) A Rolling Start The idea of cars designed specifically for video games didn’t arrive suddenly. As well as its own in-game ‘LM Race ...
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ArticleThe Winds of Time: What Makes a Design ‘Dated’?
“I used to like it, but it seems so dated now…”
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ArticleTata’s H2X shrinks the bluff SUV format to city-car size
Substantially shorter than today’s popular B-segment SUVs, the Tata H2X concept previews an upcoming city-sized SUV
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ArticleDesign Essay: Lighting – Car Design’s Latest Battleground
Whether they’re ‘eyes’ or ‘brand signatures’, they’re designed for more than just night vision…
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ArticleDesign Essay: The role of humans in AVs
Autonomous light commercial vehicles are a growing area – but where do humans fit into it?
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ArticleDesign Essay: MBUX Reimagined
An expert takes on the task of suggesting how Mercedes’ new UX could be improved
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ArticleCar Design Essentials Part 3: Graphics
Designers talk of “having an eye for design,” an intuitive sense of what’s harmonious and what is undesirable but what exactly are the components of the criteria that they’re using? For automotive design it essentially breaks down into three steps, which we term ‘Bones, Muscles and Graphics’. In this final part, we examine the third element of evaluating automotive design, the graphic treatment (grilles, lamps, window shapes, shutlines, DRG, DLO, wheels)
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ArticleCar Design Essentials Part 2: Muscles
How do you teach automotive design students to develop a good eye for design; to intuitively draw vehicles with good proportions, pleasing lines and a strong design character? Essentially, it breaks down into three steps, which I term ‘Bones, Muscles and Graphics’. Over the course of three articles Nick Hull will introduce these steps and explain the components of each element that builds into a complete set of principles.
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