All articles by Guy Bird – Page 14
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Designers, Pt.12 - Ed Welburn, General Motors
Car Design News launched its first-ever Car Design Review yearbook at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring the award-winning Production Car and Concept Car Designs of 2013.
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Driven: Alfa Romeo 4C
One of the most exciting cars of 2013 from a design and driving perspective is the Alfa Romeo 4C, so Car Design News was more than a bit excited to get behind its wheel to see if initial promise could match real-world driving reality.
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The Designers, Pt 11 - Sooshin Choi, College for Creative Studies
Car Design News launched its first-ever Car Design Review yearbook at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring the award-winning Production Car and Concept Car Designs of 2013.
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Design Development: BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupé concept
Those with reasonable memories may be reminded of the 2007 BMW CS concept - penned incidentally by Karim Habib - but although both have broadly similar coupé-like glasshouses and silhouettes, the CS is actually a four-door, the Gran Lusso a strict two-door and the front-end face and surface treatments are ...
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Design Development: BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupé concept
Car Design News sidled up to the key designers at BMW and Pininfarina at this year's Villa d'Este to get the inside track on the development and future significance of this surprising concept collaboration (...with hopefully interesting, but mixed results). Guy Bird reports from the shores of Lake Como.