All General Motors Design articles – Page 5
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Geneva 2018: Video – Wayne Cherry accepts our Lifetime Achievement Award
The legendary General Motors designer in an exclusive video. Be prepared to tear up a little...
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ArticleGeneva 2018: Car Design Awards winners announced
The design industry’s most respected awards, our yearbook and a great evening in Geneva
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ArticleThe luxury vehicle of the future is... a pickup truck?
An unlikely body style emerges as a strong upmarket player
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Article[Sponsored] CDN Design Night sponsor Magna says it’s time to connect
Magna Exteriors is the Premier Sponsor of next month’s Car Design Night Geneva 2018. Larry Erickson, Global Director of Industrial Design, explains why designers must pool insights to shape the future
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ArticleCCotW: Pontiac Club de Mer (1956)
The Club de Mer is an often-overlooked concept that predicted the future of Pontiac
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ArticleMichelin Challenge Design CCS Winners Announced
Michelin‘s 29th collaborative competition with CCS in Detroit has reached its conclusion
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ArticleHow PATAC Created the Chevrolet FNR-X [Ad]
How General Motors’ Chinese design studio created a millennial SUV concept [sponsored]
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ArticleMichelin Challenge Design Mobility/Utility/Flexibility Winners Announced
Challenge to reimagine the pickup truck saw diverse concepts
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2018 CDN & GM Interactive Competition is now open
Our competition with GM is now open to high-school students
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: GMC Terradyne
The Terradyne was General Motors’ turn-of-the-millennium vision of the urbanised future of the truck
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ArticleConcept of the Week: Oldsmobile Profile (2000)
A compact SUV concept that looks strikingly contemporary
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ArticleDesign Essay: What Makes an Icon?
How does a car transcend mere industrial design... and can it be done on purpose?
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ArticleConcept Cars of the Week: Corvair Sports Cars
The humble Chevrolet compact inspired some surprising sports cars
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ArticlePontiac Phantom (Madam X)
William ‘Bill’ Mitchell spent his entire 42-year career at General Motors, much of it served under the leadership of the flamboyant Harley Earl, GM’s Vice President of Design for over three decades. Earl appointed Mitchell as Cadillac’s first design chief in 1936. In 1954 he was promoted to Director of Styling, serving directly under Earl. Finally, after Earl retired, Mitchell stepped into Earl’s place and was Vice President of Design from late 1958 until his own retirement in 1977.
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ArticleCadillac Personal Luxury Car Concepts
In 1960, General Motors found itself on top of the industrial world. It was the largest corporation with the greatest reach and broadest product line of any corporation in the world. It produced everything from home appliances to cars and trucks, to heavy industrial machinery and military vehicles. True to its name, if it had a motor, General Motors probably produced some version of it.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Chrysler 70X (1969) and Cordoba Del Oro (1970)
Defining the “Fuselage” Aesthetic for a New Decade at Chrysler
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