All articles by Owen Ready – Page 13
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Who's Where: Stephane Schwarz appointed Zagato design director
Stephane Schwarz has joined Milanese design house Zagato as its design director.
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*CORRECTION* Thomas Ingenlath appointed Vice President of Design for Volvo
Yesterday Car Design News reported that Thomas Ingenlath has been appointed Vice President of Design for Volvo, stating that he will report to Peter Horbury, who is now Senior Vice President Design, Geely Group.
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Design Review: Volvo Concept Universe
The Volvo Concept Universe marks a new era for the company and represents a couple of firsts for Volvo.
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Design Review: Peugeot HX1 concept
The headlines may have been made in the rear of the car, but the driver and front passenger compartment is equally interesting. There's a sense of understated timelessness to the entire cabin, which Senior Designer, Adam Bazyldo, sums up as "real luxury is about having something when you need it, ...
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Design Review: Peugeot HX1 concept
The Peugeot HX1 was a rather surprise star of last week's Frankfurt motor show. Not a surprise in the sense of its presence - the days of unexpected motor show unveils are sadly numbered - but a surprise that we were so enamored with it.
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Who's Where: Peter Schreyer appointed President of Kia Motors
Peter Schreyer has been been appointed President of Kia Motors after holding the position of Chief Design Officer since 2006.
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Pininfarina readies 'Sergio' concept for Geneva
Pininfarina is readying a concept car dedicated to the late Sergio Pininfarina to be shown at the Geneva motor show.
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Essay: China Design Now
Almost every car on the street has a trinket, mascot or toy on its dashboard and it's a small example of the different way the Chinese are personalizing their cars. There's also a selling trend towards personalizing exteriors. The interesting thing is that many of these modifications aren't applied to ...
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Essay: China Design Now
To spend a week in Shanghai and profess to have collated enough information and spoken to enough people to understand the intricacies of China's culture and politics to provide an overview of the country's car design industry here would be laughable for its ignorance.
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Interview: Taiji Toyota, Chief Designer, Nissan China
CDN: What are you doing in China to get a better understanding of your customers?TT: As yet we haven't received any [research] projects. I'd like to do a research project in the future because we have to know about this market and one of the more important things is how ...
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Interview: Taiji Toyota, Chief Designer, Nissan China
Last month we reported on the opening of Nissan's new Chinese design center in Beijing. Now that the hard work has begun, CDN caught up with the studio's general manager and chief designer, Taiji Toyota.
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The Jaguar F-Type's a closet Star Wars geek
Our friends over at Jalopnik are currently at Jaguar F-Type media event over in Seattle, where they had a chance to catch up with its design Wayne Burgess (check out our full interview with him here), who revealed some interesting sources of inspiration for some of its detailing.
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Book Review: Masters of Modern Car Design
Authors Bart Lenaerts and Lies Del MolPublisher WaftISBN 978-9081482042Price €60Available from http://www.waft.be/
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RIP Massimo Tamburini 1943-2014
Massimo Tamburini, the renowned motorcycle designer, has died at the age of 70. He passed away on Saturday in his native San Marino from lung cancer.
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Mini Vision concept: what does it say about the brand's future?
The sight of Mini design head Anders Warming presenting a holographic, 3D projection of the Mini Vision concept as if appearing in his own cartoon was certainly a new one on us, but it captured the quirky, slightly left-field image the subsidiary of BMW Group has cultivated since its relaunch ...
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Why we won't be running CDNLive coverage from the Beijing motor show
Over the last couple of years we've grown our CDNLive motor show coverage from the world's most important motor shows, in an effort to bring you closer to all the new cars and news as well as highlighting some of the things you might miss. It's one of our the ...
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Driven: Toyota GT86
Everything that could be written about the way the Toyota GT86 drives has already been extensively committed to both print and HTML. And while its superb driving experience alone will be enough for some, you and I know that for a car to be truly desirable it must also connect ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2014 - Trends and Overview
The Geneva motor show marks the start of the European show season and is many people's favorite on the calendar thanks to its compact size, picturesque surroundings and a large number of global unveilings.
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Volvo XC90 interior puts concept car trilogy into practice
The Volvo concepts Coupe, XC Coupe and Estate have whetted the appetites of those keen to see new senior VP design president, Thomas Ingenlath's, renaissance of the brand since the former was shown in Frankfurt last September. The first product of these advanced design is the much-needed, all-new XC90 and ...
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RCA students to reinterpret classic cars for Salon Privé
Salon Privé is the rather pretentious-sounding UK concours d'elégance that models itself on the likes of Pebble Beach and Villa d'Este.