All articles by Guy Bird – Page 17
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Designer Interviews: Julian Thomson, Jaguar director of advanced design
Since joining Jaguar in 2000, Julian Thomson has been instrumental in changing the face of the British brand as its director of advanced design. The 53-year old has influenced the current XK, XF, XJ and F-Type production cars. He also created the well-regarded 2001 R-Coupe, 2003 R-D6, 2007 C-XF, and ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
CDN How long were you together at Ghia?IC A year and half. I left Ghia and went back to Ford and started working in the same studio I'd left once before. But Peter Stevens said there was a job going at TWR [Tom Walkinshaw Racing] design studio and this to ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
CDN Was car design deemed a risky career back then?IC There was general view at the time, even among my peers that you could never make a living out of art. I resented that notion. I genuinely believed, even at that age, that creativity had a value. Now people realize ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
Ian and Moray Callum run the respective design operations of Ford and Jaguar and have been responsible for some of the most accomplished car designs of the last 20 years.
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Nissan NV350 Caravan: fit for a whole platoon of Storm Troopers
The sheer visual presence of Nissan’s latest people carrier needs to be seen up close to be believed
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Beijing traffic chaos
The Beijing motor show experience isn’t just about the show itself. Getting there deserves a mention too, for both good and bad reasons
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Range Rover Evoque – Victoria Beckham edition
The naysayers have been numerous and vocal when it comes to Victoria Beckham’s involvement in the Range Rover Evoque as a brand ambassador
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Citroen DS Numero 9 highlights
Citroen announced its intention to launch three new DS models due for production at Beijing
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Daft Punks
A rash of virtual reality Oculus Rift headsets broke out at the 2014 Paris motorshow as a handful of carmakers attempted to sprinkle some techno fairy dust onto their stands
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Stand size isn’t everything
The Geneva motor show doesn’t really have the space (or the inclination?) for the huge automotive temples Frankfurt seems to attract
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Daihatsu does cool and detached
Daihatsu might be a vaguely defined brand from a production design perspective but it has a strong record of concepts at the Tokyo show that punch well above their weight
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Nissan IDx Freeflow & Nismo – a closer look
We like nice surprises at CDN and Nissan provided not one but two at the 2013 Tokyo show
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Two out of three ain’t bad at Mitsubishi
Arguably, Mitsubishi’s design has lacked a consistent direction of late, but Masaki Matsuhara – who became styling director in October 2010 – is aiming to resolve that with a series of concepts expressing a new face and 360-degree identity
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New Bentley stand channels Prada
Yes, Bentley chose Frankfurt to launch some go-faster S models, but arguably the British brand’s bigger design news was the unveil of its brand new show stand
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Mercedes surprises and delights with S-Class Coupe Concept
Mercedes always goes big at Frankfurt – local auto pride is at stake with its German rivals and those brands further afield too
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Look up! Mercedes ‘Aesthetics No Name’ is here…
Another sophisticated detail on the Mercedes stand that you could easily miss among all the wheeled metal on the ground, was a massive hanging sculpture suspended from the ceiling above its middle floor
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Return of the big ol’ panel gap, but in a good way…
After decades in pursuit of smaller and smaller exterior panel gaps in the name of slicker design and sharper fit and finish, at the 2013 Geneva motorshow we noticed some cars’ gaps getting bigger again
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Quilty as charged..?
When Kia starts adding quilted seats to its concepts you know the upmarket stitching technique has hit the automotive mainstream
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Mitsubishi i MiEV ‘Woody Wrap’ special edition
Funniest thing I’ve seen at the LA auto show so far is the Mitsubishi iMiEV ‘Woody Wrap’ edition
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Coda but couldn’t, and many won’t
We’re all for the idea of EVs here at CDN, like for instance the highly competent Mitsubishi iMiEV – without the wood effect of course, see our earlier post – but the new start-up car brand Coda is a nasty bit of design