All Designers articles – Page 37
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Design Review: Renault Captur concept
The Captur - Renault's second concept car in a series of six life stages - follows on from the universally liked DeZir, unveiled at the 2010 Paris motor show. After that car's remit of "falling in love", the Captur sets out to represent "two people exploring the world", bounding hand-in-hand ...
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
"Turin is the Vatican City of car design" former Design Director Jason Castriota told us during our visit. "It all started here. If anybody were to make a list of the 100 most beautiful cars, then 75 percent of them would have been born here in some shape or form".
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
Turin - the capital of car design. A bit of a cliché maybe, but few areas in the world retain such a concentration of design facilities. Detroit of course, the Paris region also, but in most other countries it's always been much more dispersed. In Italy however, it still continues ...
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
The lamps are supported by strong blades of chrome underneath as a kind of powerful cat jawline and there are two piercing pinhole eyes in the blanked-off grille too.
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
This is Bertone's 99th anniversary and, after last year's flamboyant Alfa Romeo Pandion, the firm was keen to show a more strategic concept this year as way of reminding the world of its breadth of capabilities.
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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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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The design was modeled in ICEM and Alias during February-March 2008 and data files were sent between Polyphony and Citroën on a daily basis so that the virtual game GT could be developed simultaneously, in full detail. For Citroën there was no clay modeling at all: the hard model was ...
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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The idea of a concept car that could feature in a film or virtual game is one that we see quite often from final year design students, but it's rare to find one that's an official project from a carmaker. Audi's RSQ from 'I, Robot' or the Lexus from ‘Minority ...
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
A number of interlinked innovations allow the interior to be as big as possible within the tiny footprint. Toyota has employed a center take-off steering rack and a differential that is mounted in front of the gearbox and crankshaft. This allowed the front wheels to be positioned 100mm further forward. ...
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
Small car design has typically fallen into several well-established directions: firstly, there's the ‘over-cute' look of many Japanese K-cars, then there's the ‘reinvented icon' approach typified by the Mini or Fiat 500. Next is the rounded 1-box ‘fun' approach adopted by the Smart ForTwo or Mitsubishi ‘i'. The new Toyota ...
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Design Review: Nissan Ellure concept
As is the case with many concepts, the Ellure does not sport typical door hinges. Instead, it opts for rear-seat accessible suicide hinges, much like those of the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Unlike the Rolls however, the Ellure does not exert engineering effort to disguise the substantial hinges that are necessary on ...
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Design Review: Nissan Ellure concept
Nissan's LA Auto show headliner was the Ellure, a design concept aimed at giving a common language to the brand's sedan range. The Ellure is explicitly a hybrid, from the prominent moniker on the door panels to the styling unmistakably crafted around directing airflow. As a design concept it demonstrates ...
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Design Essay: Lexus L-finesse - Sense and Sensuality
Founded as a loom-making company over a century ago, Toyoda then became the Toyota of today that also owns the Lexus and Daihatsu brands. Its history in manufacturing has given the world 'just in time' and 'quality circle' production strategies, models for efficiency that have been adopted the world over. ...
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Essay: From Twist to Touch
The Apple iPhone has set off ripples throughout the world of product design because of its revolutionary touchscreen display. It's the first display that is "multi-touch" - it recognizes more than one finger touch at a time. This allows for some novel means of control, such as spreading two fingers ...
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Climb through the generous door openings and into the floating bench seat and it's clear that interior designer Stéphane Maïore and color and material designer, Stéphanie Petit had a very clear vision of the theme.
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Which was the last Renault you loved? Not merely liked, but felt a strong emotional connection to? The Avantime? Megane II? Whichever it is, it's unlikely that many would cite a design from la Regie's current range.
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Ford Shelby GR-1 concept shown at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Click for larger imagesCarroll Shelby Ford is taking the occasion of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to unveil the Ford Shelby GR-1 concept, calling the new sports car a salute to 'performance art'. The GR-1 is a uniquely emotional American sports car design that makes a bold statement about Ford's ...