All articles by Guy Bird – Page 13
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Just beyond the mid-engined wonders were another batch of US cars, but this time late-60s pony classics with a twist, like the 1968 Beverly Hills Mustang Mustero - turning the iconic Ford into a still strangely alluring pick-up...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Cartier's ‘Style et Luxe' display is always high on our agenda and although this year's categories seemed a little more disparate than in other - featuring everything from pre-War supercharged Mercedes cabriolets to late-60s US Pony cars - there was still much to admire.
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
The last weekend in June sees Britain going crazy for outdoor entertainment: Wimbledon tennis, Glastonbury festival and, of course, Goodwood Festival of Speed, now in its 21st year. This year's featured marques include 120 years of Mercedes-Benz in motor sport and the centenary of Maserati, under the Festival theme - ...
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Design Development: Nissan BladeGlider concept
The unusual exterior proportions heavily dictated the interior package. With such a triangular shape, a central driver with two passengers behind was the logical conclusion. Early sketches were made from mid-to-late 2012 by young designer Yosuke Takaki, while the exterior design was still being developed.
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Design Development: Nissan BladeGlider concept
Vehicle type Three-seater EV sports conceptLength 4,200mmWidth 1,000mm (front) 1,890mm (rear)Height 1,140mmWheelbase, 2,800mm
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Book Review: Art of the Le Mans Race Car
Art of the Le Mans Race Car is the perfect Christmas gift for racing car lovers and an essential car design studio reference book.
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First Sight: Nissan Qashqai (2014)
Having already sold more than two million units worldwide in seven years, a betting man wouldn't have put money on Nissan designers ‘going all radical' for the mk2 Qashqai.
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Designer Interviews: Mark Fetherston, Mercedes-Benz exterior designer
CDN The 2009 SLS was your breakthrough car but it was stylistically quite different from other Mercedes of the time. How did it happen?MF It started back in 2006 as an internal project within Sindelfingen but then other Mercedes studios heard what we were doing and did proposals. No-one was ...
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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 ...