All General Motors Design articles – Page 22

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    2014 Michelin Challenge Design jury meets to select winners

    2015-05-06T18:46:14Z

    The 2014 Michelin Challenge Design judging panel has selected the top three entries of its ‘Driven/Undriven' contest after an intense two-day session at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

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    Video: GM's Clay Dean on the future of urban mobility

    2015-05-06T18:44:54Z

    Clay Dean is the star of a new Faces of GM video, Anticipating the Driving Experience of the Future.

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    Global Vehicle Architecture opens new fully-equipped 3D Design Studio in Beijing

    2015-05-06T18:35:51Z

    Global Vehicle Architecture (GVA) - a specialist independent design company encompassing all forms of transportation design - has opened a fully-equipped design studio in Beijing to cater for the growing demand for design support services. GVA is unique in that it is the first European automotive designer led facility ...

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    Easy Does It: The nine top design directors on the one thing they agree on - simplicity

    2015-05-06T18:33:04Z

    Ed Welburn, the most charming man ever to wear a designer suit and design director of General Motors, can only agree with his colleagues. In his fabulous universe, simplicity is even necessary to control complex situations: "Chevrolet offers family cars, extreme performance cars and serious trucks. That's quite something. That ...

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    Michelin Challenge Design-CCS 2014 winning projects explored

    2015-05-06T18:30:22Z

    Michelin has revealed the winners of the 2014 Michelin Challenge Design Competition for the College for Creative Studies (CCS).

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    CDN-GM Interactive Design Contest 2013 winners announced

    2015-05-06T18:25:35Z

    In early December, the finalist entries from the CDN/GM Interactive Design Competition were put in front of the panel of judges from General Motors and Car Design News to determine the four winners of this year's internships with GM. This year, once again, the level of work was exceptional and ...

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    CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition 2014 now open!

    2015-05-06T18:25:30Z

    Car Design News and General Motors are pleased to announce the 2014 edition of the CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition is now open for entry.

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    2015 Michelin Challenge Design Automotive Press Association design panel

    2015-05-06T18:17:47Z

    The Automotive Press Association (APA) Design Panel is the first of several milestones in the annual Michelin Challenge Design (MCD) calendar of events.

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    Concept Car of the Week: GM-X Stiletto (1964)

    2015-05-06T18:12:30Z

    With dreams of flying cars as the ultimate inspiration, General Motors designers in the ‘60s used every trick possible to make their creations appear as though they were floating - long, straight bodies, wheels pushed in and hidden away, large fins and lights that looked like rockets. As William L. ...

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    Design Review: Faurecia Premium Attitude

    2015-05-06T01:20:34Z

    Faurecia is a Tier 1 automotive supplier, usually outfitting vehicles built by General Motors, the Volkswagen Group, BMW and other well-known vehicle manufacturers with seats, doors, cockpits, front ends, acoustic packages and exhaust systems. This time however, they've decided to build a car to showcase their latest products, including innovative ...

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    Who's Where: Bryan Nesbitt appointed VP of Design for GM North America

    2015-05-06T01:18:53Z

    General Motors is looking to inject some newfound flair into its North American product lineup. Effective June 1, Bryan Nesbitt, currently Executive Director of Design at General Motors Europe will become Vice President of Design for North America and relocate to the company's technology headquarters in Warren, Michigan.

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    General Motors Europe opens new Design Center

    2015-05-06T01:16:41Z

    Being a car designer is often percieved as a glamourous occupation, but few people realise that this typically means working in some of the least inspiring places. Wolfsburg, Detroit and Birmingham are just a few of the locations that are home to some of the largest populations of car designers ...

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    General Motors reshuffles Executive Design leadership team

    2015-05-06T01:16:29Z

    General Motors will be changing its Executive Design leadership team around in the coming months to accelerate global product development. The announcement came on the heels of news regarding the giant automaker being surpassed by rival Toyota in global sales. In an effort to bring itself out of the red, ...

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    Designer Interview: Bryan Nesbitt, Executive Director, GM Europe Design

    2015-05-06T01:16:12Z

    Bryan Nesbitt presents the Opel Antara concept at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show. Click for larger images. Click for larger imagesPresentation by Bryan Nesbitt at the 2001 Autoweek Design Forum focused on the development of the PT CruiserPT Cruiser concept sketch (1996)GME presentation at the 2005 Geneva Motor ShowAt ...

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    Design Review: Opel Corsa

    2015-05-06T00:54:38Z

    Last year at the Frankfurt motor show the new Fiat Punto, Renault Clio, and Toyota Yaris were announced; three important new European B-sector cars. Earlier this year at Geneva the sector's best selling Peugeot 206 was replaced by the 207 and over the next twelve months Ford will show its ...

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    Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe

    2015-05-06T00:54:28Z

    CDN: What makes Opel unique in design?"Maybe in the past it was a bit too focussed on functionality, so what we're trying to do now is really keep the functionality, in fact dial the functionality up several notches, but not let it compromise design. The design language that you're starting ...

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    Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe

    2015-05-06T00:54:21Z

    On June 1st this year, Mark Adams became Vice-President of Design at GM Europe where he is charged with heading the newly-established GM Europe Design organization, including the Russelsheim-based GM Europe Design Center. He is responsible for the design of GM's European brands: Opel, Vauxhall and Saab, as well as ...

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    Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept

    2015-05-06T00:44:56Z

    Though deliberately sparse, the interior strikes a good balance between the aesthetic consequentiality of engineering and stylistic touches from the designer, Crittenden successfully blending her themes of '...raw...dark...and brooding.' Time was also spent designing a bespoke seat that differed from typical race-modified options, Kingsbury instead creating a sedentary carcass, with ...

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    Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept

    2015-05-06T00:44:45Z

    Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept

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    Designer Interviews: Anne Asensio, Executive Director of Advanced Design, GM

    2015-05-06T00:44:34Z

    Some people sky dive for thrills, Anne Asensio seeks an adrenaline rush at work. Deciding to uproot from her French homeland, leave a cozy job at Renault - where she took part in developing such successful vehicles as the Megane minivan and Clio subcompact - and move to another continent ...