All Ford Design articles – Page 3
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ArticleDesign Review: 2021 Lincoln Nautilus
With the Nautilus, Lincoln’s design team has focused on creating cohesion between exterior and interior designs. Car Design News’ Laura Burstein took a closer look
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ArticleWatch: Team Fordzilla unpack the P1 virtual race car
Made for the world of gaming, the P1 is the first virtual race car to be designed in collaboration between a carmaker and the gaming community. Team Fordzilla takes us through this unique design process, which included Twitter polls and head-to-head races.
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ArticleAltered beast: Ford F-150 Raptor
“Being the king of the hill is what keeps me awake at night,” says Ehab Kaoud, chief designer for Ford Trucks. Car Design News spoke to him about the latest iteration of the Ford-150 Raptor
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Interior MotivesInterior Motives Summer 2020 Digital Edition
Check out the summer digital edition of Interior Motives, featuring in-depth interior design trends, interviews, sketches and galleries featuring Renault, Polestar, Tata, Ford and more
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ArticleFord’s design team on the new Bronco
The Ford Bronco has finally been reborn. More than 20 years since the last model was discontinued, Ford has now unveiled the 2021 Bronco
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NewsFord F-150 redesign puts customers at its (mighty) heart
The new Ford F-150, launched in the early hours of this morning, UK time, holds few surprises on the exterior, it is recognisably an F-150, look inside and the storage and truck-as-workplace solutions are beautifully resolved and carefully thought-out.
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ArticleHow to do car design remotely – Ford colour and materials
Ford’s colour and materials design manager, Allen Brown, describes how he and his team have adapted the way they work.
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ArticleAn English Car Designer Abroad: Peter Birtwhistle talks about his life
Designer Peter Birtwhistle has released a new book in which he describes his work at GM, Audi, Porsche and Mazda
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ArticleHow to do car design remotely – Ford
We speak to Amko Leenarts, Ford of Europe’s design director, about how he and his team are working during the Coronavirus pandemic
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ArticleDesign Essay: Surprise & delight, the importance of detail design
What makes people fall in love with cars? Aidan Walsh argues that small details in design cement long-term love affairs with vehicles
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ArticleFord remembers McKinley Thompson Jr.
Their first African American designer was instrumental in shaping the original Ford Bronco
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ArticleDesign Essay: Big Screen, Big Problem?
Integrating screens in car interiors comes with a set of significant problems, from aesthetic decisions to considering the life-cycle of the vehicle. You could argue that how screens are handled within the instrument panel highlights many of the wider creative challenges of mobility design
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ArticleArtCenter 2019/20 Degree Show
Quality over quantity at the leading California automotive design school ArtCenter
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ArticleJukeboxes: the unlikely automotive influence
A look at the connection between mid-century American cars and jukeboxes
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NewsCES 2020: Fisker Ocean
The new Fisker Ocean electric SUV, which debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), promises to be far more affordable
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ArticleCES 2020: Is Sony’s Vision S a scary sight, or a revelation for carmakers and suppliers?
Should automotive manufacturers fear or embrace this surprise announcement from the consumer technology giant?
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ArticleDesign Essay: Why is Car Design so Hooked on the Past?
Retro car designs have been appearing throughout the 21st century so far… but why are they so popular?
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NewsRemembering Syd Mead, 1933-2019
Syd Mead, visual futurist, automotive designer, motion picture concept designer, industrial designer, and an inspiration to almost everyone working in these design fields, has died at the age of 86, succumbing to complications of lymphoma, which he had fought for the last three years.
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ArticleDesign Essay: The Strange Allure of Ugliness
Are tastes changing, or is taste simply disappearing? We try not to cover our eyes…
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ArticleFord unveils the electric Mustang Mach-E SUV
Just ahead of this week’s LA auto show, Ford revealed its first all-electric vehicle, a five-seat SUV inspired by the iconic Mustang.