All Designers articles – Page 38
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
The rear seat is formed from a single S-shaped curve across the car and is wonderfully inviting, reminding one of a comfy armchair. The Zoe also features a 'Pass' system - a small iPod-like control pad that stores a selection of interior ambiences to suit driver tastes. One click can ...
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
Renault is renowned for searching for the 'Next Big Thing' in car concepts but until now it seemed a bit slow to join the wave of '3-Metre' cars that many believe are the next big vogue in Europe. The Opel Trixx and Fiat Trepiuno concepts featured at Geneva last year ...
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Design Review: Kia Pop concept
Contrasting with the dark chrome body sides is the gloss-white front panel, onto which the minimal DRG is rendered. While not entirely benign, the facial expression is a welcome relief - and much more appropriate for the car's intended city environment - from the overt aggression that could be seen ...
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Design Review: Kia Pop concept
There is a connection between a specific country and certain typologies of car. True muscle cars only come from the USA; exotic sports cars really have to be Italian; and, having invented the layout (front wheel drive) that made the type practical, France is synonymous with the small car.
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Design Review: MG Zero concept
Other highlights include a witty glass roof featuring a see-through abstracted union flag motif that casts interesting reflections and shadows across the interior and the use of a lozenge pattern that is repeated throughout the car, including a red graphic in the rocker panels, the texture in the lower grille ...
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Design Review: MG Zero concept
SAIC has a fairly standard strategy with their new model launches: a showcar concept model is shown 12 months before the start of production as a way of introducing the press and sales teams to the impending new model. The latest MG Zero concept shown at Beijing in April follows ...
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Design Review: Honda Ridgeline
But now, even this last bastion of US brand dominance is under threat and the Honda Ridgeline is leading the attack.Debuting at last month's Detroit Auto Show, at 5258mm long, 1930mm wide and 1778mm tall the Ridgeline is very slightly smaller than America's best selling vehicle, the Ford F-150 pick-up ...
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Design Review: Hyundai Curb concept
The Hyundai Curb (internal codename: HCD-12) is the twelfth concept designed at the company's California Design Center.
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ArticleDesigner Interview: Lowie Vermeersch (Part 2)
This evolution should be enough of a reason not to start an independent car design studio anymore, except that Lowie doesn’t function that way: “It’s a fact that any car designer who starts his own studio for personal fame is in for a nice series of frustrations. The era of independent car design heroes like Bertone, Giugiaro or Gandini is clearly over. In the ‘60s or ‘70s, when design wasn’t…
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ArticleDesigner Interview: Lowie Vermeersch (Part 1)
Car Design News interviews Belgian designer Lowie Vermeersch
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Design Review: Infiniti Etherea concept
Move around to its rear three-quarters and the beltline disappears around an imaginary corner, defining a long hood that does not exist. Meanwhile the kinked C-pillar suggests extreme tumblehome from some angles yet other betray this visual trick.
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Design Review: Infiniti Etherea concept
The Infiniti Etherea concept - unveiled at this year's Geneva motor show - represents two firsts for Nissan's luxury brand: the Etherea is front-wheel drive where all Infinitis prior have featured either rear- or four-wheel drive and it's also a toe resolutely dipped into the fiercely competitive waters of the ...
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ArticleWatch: Marcello Gandini receives Car Design News Lifetime Achievement Award
Marcello Gandini was last night the recipient of Car Design News’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Who’s Where: Marc Lichte to head Audi Design, Wolfgang Egger moves to Italdesign
Audi’s chief designer Wolfgang Egger is to be replaced by senior VW designer Marc Lichte, according to company insiders. Egger is leaving to head Italdesign Giugiaro in Turin.
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Details: Show stands
It’s easy to be completely engrossed by the cars at the motorshow. Clearly, they should be the number one priority but, increasingly, stand design is important too
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ArticleLuigi Colani - Translating Nature exhibition
One of the most influential designers of the past half-century, Luigi Colani, is the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. With a career spanning almost six decades, Colani has applied his unique design style to produce cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, ceramics and consumer goods, as well as creating futuristic concepts for as-yet unrealized transport systems and architecture.