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    Design Development: Renault Ellypse

    2015-05-09T12:07:40Z

    The Renault Ellypse was one of the most interesting concept cars to be shown at the 2002 Paris Motor Show. It is the latest in a long line of impressive concept cars from Renault that make a strong contribution to the dialogue between designer, industry and customer on the development ...

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    Design Essay: Digital Design

    2015-05-09T11:42:32Z

    Outside of the car design community there's a popular misconception that cars are designed by computers. If you look around a modern car design studio it is easy to see how this misconception could occur: the traditional image of a design studio has rows of draughting tables with manual sketching ...

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    PSA opens new ADN Design Center

    2015-05-09T11:29:57Z

    The building may go down in architectural history, Jacques Ripault is not new to automotive work - he assisted in the renovation of Renault's Boulogne factory, and he has designed a big Valeo plant - but there are more art centres in his portfolio and he has won numerous coveted ...

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    Show Review: RTT Salzburg Conference

    2015-05-09T11:00:15Z

    Relative to most other automotive design events Car Design News has attended, the RTT event is focussed on the technical side of car design, with much of the 240 delegates from design and engineering modelling management and from related service providers.The opening presentation from Porsche Design Director Michael Mauer titled ...

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    Webinars: Autodesk presents improvements for Alias 2012

    2015-05-09T09:53:17Z

    New features and improvements in the latest Alias 2012 release are the subject of a complimentary webinar from Autodesk which took place on July 12, 2011.

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    Art Center BMW/Exa project

    2015-05-06T23:18:19Z

    There's a new sponsored project that is just getting under way at Art Center College of Design, the likes of which hasn't been seen in a very long time - if at all. The school's Transportation Design department has helped bring together BMW with Exa Corporation, a Boston-based virtual aerodynamic ...

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    Design Development: Audi A8

    2015-05-06T00:45:46Z

    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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    EyesOn Design Awards 2010

    2015-05-05T23:45:18Z

    There was no doubt that a new sense of optimism was in the air at the Detroit Auto Show. William ‘Willie' G Davidson, Senior Vice President and Chief Styling Officer of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and one of the chief judges of the awards, spoke of "a renaissance in design taking place ...

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    Design Development: Saab Aero X concept

    2015-05-05T22:54:00Z

    ‘The ultimate vision for the brand’. This was the simple brief for the Saab Aero X concept car shown at the Geneva motor show in 2006.

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    Design Development: BMW Z4

    2015-05-05T22:25:45Z

    With its roof down, a roadster's interior becomes part of its exterior, so it was particularly important that there was an empathy between interior and exterior design development, afforded in part at BMW by its designers doing both exterior and interior work (the Z4 exterior designer was also responsible for ...

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    Manzoni, Ingenlath and Hildebrand to speak at Auto Design Prague

    2015-05-05T20:01:00Z

    The fourth annual Auto Design Prague conference will take place on 18 September at the National Technical Library in Prague-Dejvice.

  • Webinar

    Listen again to the Autodesk Studio Wall webinar

    2015-05-05T19:53:06Z

    Our first webinar of 2015 took place on Wednesday 28 January. Entitled Autodesk Studio Wall - digital asset management for design and styling professionals, it focused on how Studio Wall software provides an interactive interface which allows end users to explore their designs and those of their colleagues quickly and ...

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    Who's Where: Todd Willing returns to Australia to head Ford's Melbourne studio

    2015-05-05T19:52:52Z

    Todd Willing has headed back to Australia as design director for Ford Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne. Willing has worked for Ford design since 2003, and will report directly to Moray Callum, Ford's vice president of design. He returns to Melbourne following stints at Ford's facilities in Cologne, Germany; Dunton, ...