All General Motors Design articles – Page 18
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Design Essay: Autonation
Laurens van den Acker, Global Head of Design, Mazda is another designer determining the identity of a relatively young company, and it is easy to imagine the temptation of using Japan's heritage to forge this. Instead, van den Acker states: "We will leave J-Factor to Toyota and Honda...we are Japanese ...
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Design Essay: Autonation
Two cars recently highlighted the issue of nationality in auto design: the Renault Twingo concept and the Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept. Each brand is historically close to its respective nation, but where Renault dilutes their connection, Chevrolet is emphasising theirs.
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Umea Institute of Design prepares for annual Degree Exhibition
Graduation time approaches and the Masters students from the Umea Institute of Design in the north of Sweden have just presented a preview of their final thesis projects. There are twenty-five graduating students in total, eight of whom are from the Masters course in Transportation Design.
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Who's Where: Gorden Wagener to head Mercedes Advanced Design NA
Click for larger imagesGerman designer Gorden Wagener, 37, has been appointed President of Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North America. Beginning his new position on January 1. 2006, Wagener now focuses on products specifically for North America, including production and show cars as well as advanced projects. The Californian studio will ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Isuzu 4200R (1989)
In the eighties, General Motors-owned Isuzu was fairly successful, but it was suffering from a ‘plain' brand image. To gain recognition, it presented a series of concept cars such as the COA, COA III and Costa but the most effective was the stunning 4200R.
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Art Center Summit 2009
The Art Center Summit, now in its third year, has finally seen the rest of the world catch up with its preoccupations. Initially conceived in 2006-07 to bring government, academic, and business leaders to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, to discuss issues related to mobility and sustainability, ...
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Shortlist announced for Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2010
Shortlisted entries have been announced for the 2010 Interior Motives Student Design Awards. The competition culminates in a glitzy prize-giving ceremony in Paris on the evening of October 1, the first day of the motor show.
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Interview: Daniel Darancou, Chief Designer for CH-Auto
With China continuing to lead the world in terms of economy and - as a result - the car industry, we caught up with a man with perhaps more responsibility and experience than most in the region, CH-Auto's Chief Designer Daniel Darancou.
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Car Design News Contest 2008 Winners
Few car designers in the world, if any, have had their work scrutinized by as many top car designers as each of our 20 finalists have. Every judge considered each of the six criteria for all 20 finalists and determined their individual value. Several judges commented on how this aspect ...
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Car Design of the Year 2009 Winners
Car Design News recognized the winners of the 2009 Car Design of the Year Award at last night's Car Design Night event at La Sip nightclub in Geneva. Car Design News Editor Eric Gallina presented the winning design teams at Aston Martin and General Motors for the most publicly acclaimed ...
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First Sight: Holden VE Commodore and Statesman
GM Holden last week launched its biggest program ever, the $1 billion all-new Holden VE Commodore range. Designed at Holden's Port Melbourne design center, the 4th generation Commodore is the first all-new model of the series to be fully designed and engineered in Australia. Previous generations of Commodore since 1978 ...
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General Motors' 2030 Vision
While these studios worked independently, the package and conceptual idea stems from the company's Detroit HQ and the driving force behind the project, Dr. Chris Borroni-Bird - Director of Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts. Design input throughout the program was fed by GM's Shanghai studio, to ensure that the end products ...
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General Motors' 2030 Vision
General Motors' impact upon the last century of automobility is rarely understated, but one crucial element in the company's success that is often ignored is its tradition and presence at global expos. The company's Futurama visions displayed at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1964 were hugely influential, ...
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Michelin Recognizes CCS Student Talent
Five senior students from the Transportation Design Department of the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit have won prestigious design awards at the 21st Annual Michelin-CCS Design Competition.
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CDN and Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition Update
Seats, relationships, city life, the virtual world and new materials exploration: one month into the Car Design News-Opel/Vauxhall interactive design competition, launched on 11 October, these are a few of the themes student designers are exploring, in answer to the question 'What do you think is our lounge style?'.
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Dan Darancou appointed Chief Designer at CH-Auto
Former GM design manager Dan Darancou has become Chief Designer at CH-Auto, a major Chinese car design studio that supports numerous domestic car manufacturers as well as international car companies looking to sell vehicles in the burgeoning automotive market.
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Holden Hurricane returned to glory
Holden, the Australian arm of General Motors famous for its thumping V8-powered super-saloons, has lovingly restored its first-ever concept car from the late 1960s.
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Cleveland Institute of Art - Nissan project
Nissan sponsored a semester-long project for the Cleveland Institute of Art at the end of last year. The project guidelines were to create a 'truck', which was defined as a vehicle that has some form of utility, for the year 2020. While some students decided to create more traditional truck ...
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Alias announces StudioTools 12, ImageStudio 2 and Portfolio Wall 2
Building a model using a number of 2D sketches arranged. Click for larger imagesPlanes can be positioned anywhere in 3D space. Here theyStudio Tools real-time visualization. On the right is the newStudio Tools 12 real-time visualization in full screen mode, with the Bookmark Lister for capturing and replaying snapshots.Rendering ...
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Show Review: EyesOn Design 2011
EyesOn Design, held each Father's Day in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Shores, likely draws more car designers and fans of car design than any show outside of Pebble Beach or Villa d'Este.