All articles by Guy Bird – Page 13
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Designer Interviews: Mark Fetherston, Mercedes-Benz exterior designer
Still only 36, Mark Fetherston has designed some of the most respected cars in the current Mercedes range. His breakthrough was the ‘gull-winged' SLS supercar of 2009 and he's had a hand in most of the company's significant exterior projects since, from the 2011 Concept A-Class and 2012 Concept Style ...
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Design Development: Renault Twin'Z
The interior features a flat floor with a pushed-back dashboard, gently ribbed door panels (with built-in ventilation) and a rear parcel shelf that together blend into one curvaceous whole with nature-inspired contour lines to express movement and flow. The few interior components - door handles, steering wheel and column, center ...
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Design Development: Renault Twin'Z
Vehicle type City car concept Design director Laurens van den AckerProject leaders Anthony Lo, Axel Breun, Ross Lovegrove Project manager Philippe PonceauInterior designers Ross Lovegrove, Matt Longbottom, Christopher Hermann (Lovegrove Studio) Color and trim designers Nathalie GrangerConcept car technical project manager Minh Au TruongProject started January 2012 Project completed April ...
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The Designers Pt1 - Gorden Wagener, Daimler
At this year's Geneva Motor Show, Car Design News launched its second Car Design Review yearbook, featuring the production and concept cars our judges voted as best designs of the past year.
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First Sight: Hyundai Intrado concept
Peter Schreyer's first Hyundai concept car, the Intrado, will officially be revealed at the 2014 Geneva motorshow next week but Car Design News got an early look at the fuel cell concept crossover's key design development models and spoke exclusively with Schreyer and his team about the car's importance.
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Designer Interviews: Ola Stenegard, head of vehicle design, BMW Motorrad
CDN Who makes up your bike team?OS My team is 10 to 12 people, depending on how many projects we have running, so every designer is entirely responsible for at least one production bike. I have three senior designers, one does four- and six-cylinder engine bikes, another all the boxer ...
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Designer Interviews: Ola Stenegard, head of vehicle design, BMW Motorrad
You probably won't catch BMW Motorrad's head of vehicle design Ola Stenegard wearing a lightweight scarf and a suit, as beloved of many car designers. The 43-year old Swede - who learned to weld at seven - is more about tattoos, earrings and leather biker jackets.
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Designer Interviews: Satoru Tai, Nissan VP Creative Box & design director product design
CDN Did the Cube's success change your career?ST I was transferred to product planning in 2002 after that, as we had been designing and at the same time planning too. I did the 2003 Jikoo and Redigo concepts [as a planner] before Shiro asked me to go to Nissan's European ...
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Designer Interviews: Satoru Tai, Nissan VP Creative Box & design director product design
Satoru Tai is not your average car designer. As executive design director of Nissan's product design department - in charge of future show cars and production EVs and Kei cars - as well as vice-president of its advanced Creative Box studio in Tokyo, he gets to do a lot of ...
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ArticleJag designers light up London’s Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell Design Week might not mean much to car designers more used to motor shows like Tokyo or Geneva. But the five-year-old event is fast becoming a fixture in the broader design calendar, and has been sponsored by Jaguar for the past four years for good reason.
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
Design legend and visiting professor to the Royal College of Art, Peter Stevens, was as entertaining as ever, urging students to become better all-rounders, stating, "making the design is not enough, it's about selling the design too". He also implored designers to question the status quo more often in order ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 2
After a boat trip down the Huangpo River in the evening of the first day to give delegates and speakers a chance to mix more informally, it was soon time to get back on with the second day of the conference. This saw a speaker and panel line-up including experts ...
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Report: Interior Motives China Conference 2009 - Day 1
Interior Motives returned once more to the exciting city of Shanghai for its second China design conference, themed ‘China: Changing the landscape of car design'. Held straight after the first Shanghai auto show press day - a day topped off by the Car Design Night, attended by some 300 or ...
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Studio Focus: Inside Mercedes’ global design operations
The small team - 17-strong plus 10-15 freelancers - are also heavily involved in the company's fledgling non-car transport and product design business, Mercedes-Benz Style. Indeed, Jauch-Paganetti says the idea came from Como after the studio did some work for an Italian luxury boat business.
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Studio Focus: Inside Mercedes’ global design operations
Many carmakers have more than one design studio. Some have as many as three - traditionally in Europe, US and Asia to tap into those key markets - but only a handful have outposts all over the globe. Mercedes-Benz is one of that latter elite group with five passenger car ...
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Gilles Vidal on Peugeot's Design Direction
Peugeot's new 508 sedan and sport wagon unveiled in detail last week represent not only a new pair of family cars to compete against the likes of the Ford Mondeo and Opel/Vauxhall Insignia but the start of a new design direction for the brand.
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First Sight: Mercedes-Benz SL
The new high-tech, low weight Mercedes SL roadster receives its official global unveil next week in Detroit but Car Design News got an early peek of the final production car and had a chat with its designers at Mercedes' US advanced design studio in Carlsbad, California back in November.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.