All Designers articles – Page 34

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    Design Review: Toyota FT-CH concept

    2015-05-09T11:48:10Z

    The interior of the FT-CH was initially more difficult to evaluate as only one official photo of the cabin was available and the Detroit show car's doors were locked while the concept itself was perched up on a hard-to-access pedestal, limiting views inside. Interior designer Urwin did concede that this ...

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    Design Review: Toyota FT-CH concept

    2015-05-09T11:48:01Z

    Having succeeded in establishing the Prius as the undoubted ‘poster boy' of the righteous eco driver movement, Toyota is now embarking on reinforcing its green credentials by expanding its petrol/electric hybrid range to cater to other types of driver. Crucially, many of these new vehicles are set to define a ...

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    Designing the car of the future

    2015-05-09T11:46:40Z

    Design is still far from having lost its ability to surprise us. In mature markets, far more than owning a vehicle suited for everyday uses in line with how society is changing, the search for differentiation is pushed to the extreme: personalization is getting a little stronger every year based ...

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    Design Review: Seat Altea

    2015-05-09T11:46:28Z

    Other neat touches on the Altea include the hidden clap-hands wipers and a second, hollow parcel tray in the trunk. The interior also keeps the spirit of the original, with a high but sporty seating position and centre console shape that apes the grille outline in a similar fashion to ...

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    Design Review: Seat Altea

    2015-05-09T11:46:23Z

    The new SEAT Altea acts as a classic case study in how a new production model can be successfully developed from a concept series, to give it an extra 'edge' in the public's perception. The final production car, premiered at Geneva, looks unchanged from the Altea Prototipo concept shown at ...

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    Design Review: GMC Granite concept

    2015-05-09T11:46:19Z

    Entrance to the interior is through a set of barn-style pillarless doors that provide a conceptual twist on the new Opel Meriva's innovative set-up. (That car sits on a similar wheelbase, but retains conventional B-pillars for reasons of structural rigidity).

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    Design Review: GMC Granite concept

    2015-05-09T11:46:12Z

    Even iconic brands have difficulty expand beyond the design parameters that brought them their success. You need only witness Mini's growing pains as it attempts to enter the SUV crossover segment with the Countryman for proof of that. For a brand like GMC, whose model line is based on mildly ...

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    Design Review: Range Rover Evoque

    2015-05-09T11:46:06Z

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    Design Review: Lexus IS

    2015-05-09T11:46:00Z

    The old IS200/300 was a simple concept, clearly targeted at the BMW 3 Series: a sporty, compact executive car with a straight-six engine and RWD, available in sedan or sporty wagon format. This new model is a much more complex product, in some ways more mainstream, in others more sophisticated and focused. The new design direction is meant to express three fundamental elements of the Lexus ‘L-Fin

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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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    Chris Bangle: The future of auto design; the purpose of life

    2015-05-09T11:42:02Z

    As part of the recent graduation exhibition at Umea Institute of Design, Chris Bangle was invited to give the keynote address. Given that the theme for the event was change, it's difficult to think of a speaker better qualified to pass on their insights to a new generation of designers.

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    Design Review: Skoda Yeti

    2015-05-09T11:40:30Z

    Yeti is the Tibetian word for 'magical creature' and the name given to the mythical large ape or 'abominable snowman' first thought to have been sighted in the Himalayas eighty years ago, which ever since has eluded a verifiable sighting. A strange name to give a concept car perhaps, but ...

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    Design Essay: Designing For Mash-ups

    2015-05-09T11:40:28Z

    MASH-UP: 1. A musical genre which consists of the combination of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres and strive for musical epiphanies that add up to more than the sum of their parts. 2. A website ...

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    Design Essay: Interior Texture Trends - Europe vs USA

    2015-05-09T11:36:57Z

    The use of texture can go beyond mere coverage and move into a way of creating inexpensive accents like the production Dodge Magnum to highlight the vent surround or the Jeep Liberty on the center stack. Even more innovative is the Mazda Sassou Concept car from this year's Frankfurt show ...

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    Design Essay: Interior Texture Trends - Europe vs USA

    2015-05-09T11:36:51Z

    The texture on car interior components is something few of us consider much - as practising designers or car users. On injection molded parts grain was originally added to the surface of a tool to hide any molding issues. Now, with greater interest on interior design, the awareness of the ...

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    Design Review: Mitsubishi i

    2015-05-09T11:36:28Z

    At the rear, the 2003 'i' concept featured a bubble-like rear profile with a split rear window, not unlike an Audi A2. On the final car this has become simpler and more vertical. The doors on the production car have also been given a couple of subtle horizontal feature lines ...

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    Design Review: Mitsubishi i

    2015-05-09T11:36:19Z

    Mitsubishi Motor Corporation is one of those companies that is difficult to pigeonhole design-wise: it's a company with a very wide model range but little unity in design. There are several disparate centres of gravity in the Mitsubishi range, from totally orthodox sedans such as the Lancer, Carisma and Galant ...

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    Driven: Range Rover Evoque

    2015-05-09T11:36:15Z

    As Sam Livingstone opines in his review of the latest Porsche 911, we are in a period of car design consolidation, with the new 911 the ultimate expression of a slightly suffocating trend.

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    Design Review: Ford Shelby GR - 1

    2015-05-09T11:35:40Z

    Ford Motor Company design chief J Mays introduces the Shelby. Click for larger imagesTHE Sketch2004 Shelby Cobra ConceptShelby GR-1 designers Matthew Hill (interior), George Saridakis (exterior)Photos: Brett Patterson, Marc Beauregard, FordWhat makes a good car design? One that sells well? One that car designers rate highly? One that you ...

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    Design Review: Renault Modus

    2015-05-09T11:35:21Z

    Similarly, its Down-Road-Graphic is generic Renault with MPV proportions, slightly cute lamps and a benignly smiling lower grille aperture.