All articles by James McLachlan – Page 2
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ArticleAdrian Newey: “Cars at this level should be art forms”
Red Bull Racing legend Adrian Newey unveiled the RB17 at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024. Newey spoke to Car Design News about his ‘legacy car’ and why the best engineering solutions are often the most beautiful
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ArticleTodd Willing is Ford’s new design head
Ford veteran Todd Willing is Ford’s new head of design, filling the role vacated by Anthony Lo earlier in 2024
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ArticleMissoni leaves Polestar
Polestar has appointed Philipp Römers as its new head of design, replacing Maximilian Missoni who headed up the Swedish EV brand design department for six years
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ArticleLamborghini’s Mitja Borkert: “We give adrenaline a shape”
Mitja Borkert on the design of the new Temerario
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WebinarWatch now: Enabling creative innovation in the design studio
Watch our CDN webinar with Autodesk, where Product Managers Phil Botley and Brandon Tasker will be discusing the Agile Design Studio
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ArticleFirst sight: Polestar Concept BST
Car Design News covers the Polestar Concept BST at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024
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ArticleIn pictures: Bentley Motors car meet
The Bentley design team gathered to show off their cars
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ArticleGoodwood 2024: hypercars, fireworks and crashes
Car Design News reports on the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed
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ArticleDesign driven: Peugeot E-5008
Car Design News takes a Scandinavian road trip in Peugeot’s new all-electric seven-seater SUV, the e-5008
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ArticleReview: Coventry Connections – 50 years of Transport Design at Coventry University
Car Design News reviews Coventry Connections – 50 years of Transport Design at Coventry University
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Article“Alfa Romeo is a car for egoists” – Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos
Alfa Romeo’s Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos discusses the design of the Junior
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ArticleAndreas Mindt on the ID. GTI concept and complexity in car design
In a surprise appearance at the SMMT Test Day, the head of VW group design turned up to talk through the ID. GTI concept’s design language. Car Design News grabbed a few minutes with the busy designer to ask him about the increasingly complex nature of automotive design
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ArticleNew Model Army: inside Tata Motors’ clay studio
With a brace of wins at the CDN People Awards, Tata Motors has an enviable reputation for having one of the best clay modelling teams in the industry. Car Design News paid the team a visit in their state-of-the-art facilities in Warwick
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ArticleThe Fight Club of Design
With influences as diverse as UK rave culture, Detroit’s vaunted boxing heritage and the city’s car culture, there are few events in the automotive design calendar that get the blood pumping than the Middlecott Sketch Battle. Car Design News caught up with event founder Brook Banham to hear about the method behind the madness
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Article“I don’t want only the design leaders presenting to me – I banned PowerPoint, full stop”
Car Design News paid a visit to Gothenburg to meet with Jeremy Offer, Lisa Reeves and Nick Gronenthal who form part of Volvo’s design leadership team
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ArticleInside the studio: General Motors, Advanced Design UK
Car Design News paid a visit to General Motors Advanced Design UK in Leamington. While the work itself is shrouded in secrecy, CDN discovered a studio relishing its role as creative friend to the mothership in Michigan
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Article“What makes a material interesting is its story”
Gaia Crippa, head of materials innovation at Chris Lefteri Design, speaks to Car Design News in Milan at the Maserati showroom
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Article”Evolving our heritage and our brand is strongly connected to also evolving luxury”
”Evolving our heritage and our brand is strongly connected to also evolving luxury”
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Article“We are trying to create a pure design where technology is there but not in the foreground”
Head of interior at Maserati Andreas Wuppinger on the relationship between timesless design and evolving technology