All General Motors Design articles – Page 21
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Contests Archive: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition 2011
The Car Design News - GM Interactive Design Competition was open to design students across the USA and Canada.
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Joel Piaskowski becomes Director of Exterior Design at Ford North America
Joel Piaskowski is set to become Ford's North American Director of Exterior Design. He will be filling the position previously vacated by Moray Callum, who was promoted to Executive Director for Ford Americas design when Peter Horbury went back to head up Volvo's design efforts earlier this year.
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LA Design Challenge 2012: Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025
The LA Design Challenge has called for design studios from around the world to compete and create the ultimate law enforcement vehicle for the year 2025.
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Wulin Gaowa on GM’s new Chinese Advanced Design Studio
Following on from our story in September about Wulin Gaowa's appointment to GM Design as Director of its China Advanced Design, the company has released more details about the new studio and an interview with the designer.
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Essay: China Design Now - Part II
While the Chinese companies are looking to create brands, established overseas manufacturers are looking over their shoulders to protect theirs.
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Nissan opens new design studio in Beijing
Another piece of evidence of the Beijing studio's potential: an edgy crossover car the center's designers developed, inspired by a very popular Chinese street art form called jianzhi - a type of paper cutting. The nameless car - a pure design exercise at this point, according to Nakamura - is ...
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Automakers sign up to Apple 'Eyes Free' Siri button
Apple has announced that the leading carmakers have signed up for the addition of an ‘Eyes Free' button that will activate Siri for in-car Apple products.
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An Audience with Syd Mead at CCS
"Visual futurist and concept artist." Like some sort of Transformer, those words combine to create an ideal job description for many an industrial designer. With the world of design becoming more varied, and our jobs becoming more demanding of diversity, it's no surprise that many of us venture into adjacent ...
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Entries in for 2012 LA Design Challenge
Final designs for the 2025 Highway Patrol Vehicle from worldwide design studios are in for the Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge.
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Subaru SHARC wins LA Design Challenge [w/video]
Subaru's SHARC (Subaru Highway Automated Response Concept) has been named the winner of the 2012 LA Design Challenge.
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Design Development: Subaru SHARC
The design team wanted the project to be fun as well as innovative. Designer Masashi Kaneda developed Cohen's fictional protagonist, Chief Kamehamaha, as an almost superhero-like figure. How the Chief would interact with the SHARC was next on the agenda, and so they decided to develop Subaru's current EyeSight technology. ...
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GM China opens Advanced Design Center in Shanghai
General Motors China has opened a new advanced design studio as part of the establishment of its Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai.
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Concept Car of the Week: Ghia Streamline X 'Gilda' (1955)
In 1954 Virgil Exner, director of styling at Chrysler, created a scale clay-model to communicate to his team his vision of futuristic and aerodynamic shapes. The sculpture was then painted black and was left on display in Exner's Office. There it caught the eye of Luigi Segre, director of Ghia ...
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Gesture-controlled Audi wins VDA Design Award
The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has announced the winner of its 2013 Design Awards, which asked students from across the world to submit their final graduating projects completed between October 2011 and July 2013.
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Concept Car of the Week: Oldsmobile Golden Rocket (1956)
From 1949 to 1961, General Motors ran its own motor show. Called Motorama, the annual event was a showcase for concept cars which revealed prospective design and technology directions for all of GM's brands and for cars in general.
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GM's Ed Welburn walks Jay Leno through the Elmiraj concept's design [w/Video]
General Motors' vice president Global Design Ed Welburn stars in the latest of the 'Jay Leno's Garage' YouTube series, running the talk-show host through some of the new Cadillac Elmiraj concept's design features and what it means for the brand's future.
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How they're made: concept car tires
With the car design calender kicking off tomorrow at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, we've taken a look behind the scenes of a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of concept car design - their tires. We spoke to Michelin's senior industrial designers Ben Ebel and John ...
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Who's Where: Richard Ferlazzo appointed GM Australia design director
Richard Ferlazzo has been appointed General Motors Australia design director. Taking up the position from 1 September, he will report directly to executive director international operations design Michael Simcoe and also GM Holden chairman and managing director Mike Devereux.
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Why small sedans are the next big thing in South America
Despite the recent boom of the Brazilian economy and a growing middle class population being able to buy their first car, new cars are still relatively expensive in the country. As Car Design News reported in our 2012 São Paulo motor show coverage, the initial development of the market has ...
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Q&A: David Townsend, GM global design director, user experience
GM's new design director of user experience, David Townsend, has only been in the job just over a month. But with a remit extending to the interface design of every vehicle in GM's global portfolio, his influence will soon be widespread.