All articles by Guy Bird – Page 3
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ArticleFirst Sight: Production Alfa Romeo Tonale heralds “new era”
The Alfa Romeo Tonale finally unveiled in production form on Tuesday 8th February 2022, with CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato declaring the compact SUV as the “first of a new Alfa Romeo era”
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ArticleCelebrating 50 years: Porsche Design’s Top Ten
As the product design offshoot of Germany’s famous sports car brand celebrates 50 years in business, CDN celebrates ten of Porsche Design’s greatest hits, from sunglasses to skyscrapers and everything inbetween
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ArticleItalian car design legends captured in unique photobook
Italian car design greats captured in unique new photo book by Car Design News contributor and former Bertone employee Piotr Degler
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ArticlePeter Horbury explains new Lotus design role and future product
In Peter Horbury’s first official month in his new role as head of design at Lotus – and as its new Warwickshire design studio is renamed the Lotus Tech Creative Centre (LTCC) – he candidly explained to Car Design News his hopes and dreams for the plucky British sports brand, now with major Chinese backing
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ArticleVW ID.5 and ID.5 GTX finally unveiled in production form
The third chapter in Volkwagen’s electric offensive is unfolding, and appears to have an air of familiarity
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ArticleDriven: Kia EV6
Guy Bird gets behind the wheel of the EV6, hailing the model as Kia’s entry into the big league
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ArticleInterior Motives Summer 2021: Mercedes Benz EQS
The Mercedes EQS’ mother of all screens polarised the design community between believers and sceptics. However, Guy Bird finds there is more to the German’s marque’s interior than its vaunted black mirror
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ArticleInterior Motives Summer 2021: SAIC IM Airo
Heatherwick Studio, which designed the revamped London Routemaster Bus and the 2012 Olympic Cauldron, has created the SAIC Airo ‑ a living room on wheels that cleans the air as it moves
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ArticleAudi’s Marc Lichte on the premium brand’s autonomous revolution
Audi’s head of design Marc Lichte talks ‘revolution’, sexy GTs and vans (and why the Grand Sphere is very much the former not the latter)
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ArticleAll change please: Dissecting the car design top job merry-go-round
Within the last year there have arguably been more major job changes in senior car design than in the last five put together. Via exclusive quotes, dot-joining and head-scratching, Car Design News unpicks some of the reasons and possible consequences
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ArticleInterior Motives Spring 2021: Hyundai Ioniq 5
A calming colour palette, sliding centre console and fridge magnet style personalisation – Hyundai’s Ioniq borrows from domestic design to create a coherent, usable interior rather than ‘la la land’ concepts
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ArticleObituary: The French maestro Robert Opron
One of the finest car designers of the 20th Century, Robert Opron, passed away last week, aged 89. Responsible for masterpieces for Simca, Citroen, Renault and Alfa Romeo from the late 1950s to the late-80s – and one of the few recipients of the Car Design News Lifetime Achievement Award – we salute his life and influence, via still vivid memories of visiting his house south of Paris back in 2016 to discuss his career over Scotch and Pringles…
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ArticleState of the Screen
As technology has become more prevalent in car design, interiors have been marked by a steady proliferation of touchscreens. Guy Bird explores the near future to discover whether the black mirror is here for good
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ArticleFirst Sight: Kia EV6 unveiled as Habib outlines new design strategy
Kia’s EV6 suggests a softer, more subtle interpretation of its current design language. Senior design VP Karim Habib, however, wants to focus on concepts rather than style
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ArticleInterior Motives: Hyundai Prophecy
Resolutely not a ‘show business’ car, the Prophecy contrasts analogue and digital worlds to create an original and unique car interior which, according to the design team, will soon be on our streets
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ArticleInterior Motives: BMW iX
The latest all-electric Beamer has divided opinion thanks to its controversial styling, but the interiors team will have no such concerns with a striking, unconventional layout that allies boutique hotel design with hidden tech
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ArticleGerry McGovern to oversee Land Rover and Jaguar brands
Land Rover’s chief creative officer has landed JLR’s top design job. Car Design News asks why (and why now)?
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ArticleLexus LF-30 - interior design development
Lexus’ electric vision pitched for the year 2030 was designed in the European ED2 studio and began with a very open brief
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Interior MotivesVolkswagen ID.3 - the interior story
From the Winter 2012/20 issue of Interior Motives magazine: Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen Group Design, tells Car Design News about creating the pivotal new ID.3 electric car
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ArticleFourth-gen Kia Sorento lasers in on interior quality
Kia unveils its new Sorento – a large seven-seater SUV that has fresh exterior and interior designs