All Features articles – Page 6
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ArticleShanghai 2019 overview
Now the dust has settled on the biggest auto show of the year, we asked Drew Meehan join the dots of what we saw in April in Shanghai
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ArticleStudent’s design review of Shanghai 2019
Winner of CDN’s CDAC award 2019, Liu Dong, walked the halls for CDN and reviewed the cars that caught his eye at the Shanghai’s motor show 2019
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ArticleQ&A with YooJung Ahn, head of design, Waymo
Celebrating 10 years of self-driving design development, Car Design News chats to Waymo’s head of design YooJung Ahn
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ArticleDesign interview: Sharon Gauci, GM
“In its purest form, design should be a sensory journey of discovery,” says GM’s executive director of industrial design
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Quasar Khanh’s Unipower City Car
The Unipower City Car, a tiny rolling glass box, was introduced in the 1960s, and designed by an unlikely engineer-turned-car and furniture designer, Quasar Khanh
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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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ArticleTrend report: Clerkenwell Design Week 2019
Clerkenwell Design Week is in its tenth year, and improving with age. We assess trends that are likely to bleed into automotive
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ArticleDriven: Suzuki Jimny
We explore one of the most hyped cars of the moment, the new Suzuki Jimny, on-road and off
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ArticleDriven: Hyundai Kona Electric
Car Design News takes a drive in a very convincing compact crossover, the Hyundai Kona Electric
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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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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Autobianchi Runabout (1969)
The 850 was a very popular car for Fiat in the ‘60s, especially in its spider version with its cute design and compact proportions. When the time came to replace it, Fiat went back to Bertone, where chief designer Marcello Gandini was charged with designing its replacement.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Bertone Alfa Romeo Carabo (1968)
Marcello Gandini’s Carabo for Alfa Romeo pioneered a distinct design language, influencing automotive icons such as the Lotus Esprit and Lamborghini Countach
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ArticleGeneva 2018: Toyota Gazoo Supra Racing Concept
Deciphering where the racing attachments end and the hotly anticipated production car begins...
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ArticleToyota’s Ian Cartabiano heading to Europe
Humphries’ old role to be filled by outgoing Calty head
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ArticleCES 2018: Toyota reveals E-Palette and partners
Toyota‘s shift towards mobility becomes clearer with its Olympics-bound autonomous room on wheels
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ArticleToyota unveils brand new Century ahead of Tokyo
Japanese-market flagship limo enters only its third generation in 50 years
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Who's Where: Simon Humphries now president of Toyota’s ED2 design centre
Toyota's highest-ranking Brit moves from Japan to France
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ArticleQ&A with CDN Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Syd Mead
Exclusive interview by Car Design News with visual futurist Syd Mead on the secrets of his success in automotive design. An ArtCenter graduate, Mead’s take on what the future of mobility might look like has bled into popular culture though cult sci-fi films like Blade Runner, Tron (original), 2010 and Tomorrowland and his work still inspires designers around the world