All General Motors Design articles – Page 20
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Car Color Trends Shift with the Economy (Video)
According to the 2008 DuPont Automotive Color Popularity Report, white is the top vehicle color choice in North America for the second straight year in a row, with black and silver close behind. And experts say the slumping economy may be playing a role in these choices. During an economic ...
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College Exhibition: College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition 2004
Jul 20, 2004 - On the evening of May 14th, Detroit's College for Creative Studies opened it's 79th Annual Student Exhibition with a patron preview. The entire campus was transformed into a gallery to display works by many of the year's students.
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Who's Where: Bryan Nesbitt becomes General Manager of Cadillac
Bryan Nesbitt, who until last week was General Motors' North American Vice President of Design, started his new role as general manager of the Cadillac brand on Monday, July 27. His appointment, which surprised many, is part of an effort to integrate design, marketing and advertising, which have always been ...
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University of Cincinnati 2008
Students in the Transportation Design track at the University of Cincinnati recently presented their visions for the future of transport. Most of the students were asked to envision a vehicle for use in the year 2030 in a studio course sponsored by General Motors; a brief which asked students to ...
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Southern California's Design Studios
The home of the American auto industry may be Detroit, but for the last 30 years California's West Coast has been its design base, playing host to more studios than anywhere else in the world.
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Kia opens new Design Center America
Kia Motors has opened its new Design Center America, located adjacent to the new US corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The opening ceremony of the new US 21.8-acre Kia Corporate campus was held on June 24 and was presided by Byung Mo Ahn, ...
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EyesOn Design 2008
If seeing is believing, then the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO) does their share of making new believers annually, including those who are visually impaired. Originally founded in 1972 by Dr. Philip Hessburg and his associates in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, out of a genuine appreciation for fine automobiles, the DIO ...
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Show Review: Art Center Car Classic 2007
Just a further couple of steps away, one could also be standing between the George Barris-designed Monkees Pontiac GTO and the Blackhawk Collection's Alfa Romeo BAT cars. I am sure you'll agree that any show which has the recently re-united three BAT cars together in formation is of course a ...
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Contest: Volkswagen Slipstream wins 2007 LA Design Challenge
Volkswagen's Slipstream concept has won the fourth annual Design Challenge competition, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designer's conference. The award was presented during the second press day of the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Contest: LA Design Challenge 2007
Mercedes-Benz SilverFlowGorden Wagener, John Gill and Kevin Kang from Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North America created the futuristic SilverFlow, a car that utilizes micro-metallic particles which can be arranged via magnetic fields to suit many different pre-selected model forms.
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Contest: LA Design Challenge 2007
No other city is associated with and as dependent upon the car as Los Angeles. The automobile allows freedom with the ability to decentralize, and with Los Angeles being the home to some of the country's first freeway systems, fast-food chains and drive-through banking, LA continues to play a significant ...
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Mazda wins 2008 LA Design Challenge
The Mazda Kaan concept has won the fifth annual LA Design Challenge competition, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designer's conference. The award was presented during the second press day of the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, following a designers' luncheon and keynote speech by Daniel Simon, visionary futurist ...
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Design Development: Ford Mustang
There was something rather out of step with the new Mustang’s debut at the recent LA Auto Show. Here was a new design from Ford, conceptually and thematically representing so much of what was once great about American car design, American cars and the post-war ‘baby-boomer’ period of US car ...
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LA Design Challenge 2010 announced
This year will see the seventh running of the annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge when the industry circus hits the US west coast in November.
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Design Contest: LA Design Challenge 2008
The entrants for the fifth annual Design Challenge, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designers' conference, have now been announced. Nine Southern California automotive design studios - including Audi, BMW, GM, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Volkswagen - have been pitted against one another and asked to develop ...
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LA Design Challenge 2009
The LA Auto Show has just announced the competitors in its 6th annual Design Challenge. The entries - coming from the Southern California design studios of Audi, General Motors, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota - all revolve around a set theme which asked designers to envision the ultimate ‘youthmobile' for the ...
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2010 LA Design Challenge entrants revealed
Entries for the 2010 Los Angeles Design Challenge have now been revealed. The futuristic proposals, which called for designers to envision a 1000lbs (454kg) 2+2 vehicle that delivers comfort, safety and satisfactory driving performance without sacrificing the emotional connection today's consumers demand from their vehicles, come from the west coast ...
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Design Contest: Interior Motives Awards 2011
Shortlisted entries have been announced for the 2011 Interior Motives Student Design Awards. After individual deliberation by our panel of renowned senior designers, students being tutored at colleges in a diverse range of countries including Israel, the Czech Republic, Australia, Taiwan, Canada and China, as well as in the established ...
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Mercury dies off, Lincoln to benefit
Ford's brand portfolio is set to get smaller by the end of the year. Following the sale of Aston Martin, Land Rover, Jaguar and most recently Volvo (to Chinese automaker Geely), the Blue Oval has now announced the demise of its 'middle of the range' Mercury brand, with production of ...