All articles by Owen Ready – Page 16
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Summer 2013
Earlier in the summer we returned to Pforzheim - the unassuming town near Stuttgart - for what has become a highlight on the car design calendar.
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Peugeot Exalt concept to bring shark skin suit to Beijing
Peugeot has 'accidentally' leaked an image of its Exalt concept car ahead of its debut at the Beijing auto show next Sunday.
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This year's Pilkington Glass Awards winners announced at RCA grad show
Last week's Royal College of Art graduation exhibition (full report coming soon) also played host to the 27th annual Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards, with four students acknowledged by the glass making company.
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Video: Rendering a Le Mans racer using layer masks and pixel locking in Photoshop
Local Motors' designer and community manager Aurel Francois has made this short video explaining how he created his 'Alpine A444' render for the Le Mans Themed Sketchwall Challenge.
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Ken Okuyama Design heads to Tokyo with new road racer [w/video]
Ken Okuyama Design is heading to the Tokyo motor show with what promises to be a real treat of a two-seat sports car.
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Ford offers $1m of design scholarships in memory of William Clay Ford
Ford Motor Company has put aside $1million to be awarded in automotive design scholarships over the next 20 years in order to commemorate the life of William Clay Ford who passed away on Sunday.
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Jaguar C-X17 Concept bringing SUV preview and new platform to Frankfurt
The Jaguar C-X17 concept will preview one of the brand's upcoming pair of SUVs, as well as its new modular aluminum platform that will underpin its next generation of cars.
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Video: A look inside CALTY's studio walls and Toyota FT-1 concept development
Motor Trend has taken a look inside the studio walls of CALTY to produce a documentary of the design development of a star of last week's Detroit auto show, the Toyota FT-1 concept.
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Video: Honda Super Ultra Daydreams has us smiling with joy
Honda's press conference at last week's press conference was full of the usual marketing messages about sales figures, new models and company strategies but the thing that caught our magpie-like eyes was this joyful little video.
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Concept Car of the Week: Citroën C-Metisse (2006)
Citroen was on a roll back in 2006, in terms of its production cars such as the C4 and C6, but most notably in advanced design. The previous 'C-' range of concepts that started in 2002 with the C-Airdream, swiftly followed by the C-Airlounge and C-Sportlounge.
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Eduard AckermannMercedes-Benz Progred/Le Mans Show Car 2040This two-wheeled Le Mans racer uses ground-effects aerodynamics and a gyroscope to lift its rear end, reducing rolling resistance and adding a new dynamic to motor racing. Efficiency is key to the design, which has a very small frontal area created by its open ...
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Artem SazonovSaab Comove'Don't own, share' is the millennial mantra that inspired this car-sharing project. In the same way this generation is comfortable with the model of streaming rather than owning music, so many feel purchasing a car both unachievable and unnecessary. But the lack of familiarity and an emotional connection ...
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College Exhibition: Pforzheim University Winter 2014 - Bachelor and Masters
Pforzheim University's graduation shows are always extremely well attended by designers. They are predominantly from manufacturers around its location in Stuttgart, but the show also draws those those based further afield in Germany and, beyond that, wider Europe.
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Ford resurrects Vignale name in an attempt to add premiumness to mainstream models
Ford is resurrecting the name of renowned Italian design house Vignale in an attempt to bring its mainstream models up market in Europe. Of course this isn't Ford's first experience of using a defunct carrozzeria for its range-topping models - remember Ghia?
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Peter Stevens and Julian Thomson lead a discussion on the past, present and future of car design
Peter Stevens and Julian Thomson lead a discussion on the past, present and future of car design
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Design Review: Audi A8
Swing open the driver's door and the first thing you notice is that the unusually low aluminum highlight which runs along the rocker panel neatly rolls up along the length of the door openings to meet the kick plates.
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Design Review: Audi A8
It's easy to forget that when the first generation Audi A8 was introduced back in 1994, the four rings from Ingolstadt weren't considered premium enough to lock horns with the three-pointed star of Stuttgart or Munich's blue and white propellor.
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Dr Zetsche opens CES with keynote speech
Hot on the heels of the unveiling of the new Mercedes-Benz SL in Detroit yesterday, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG hot-footed it to Las Vegas to open the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with a keynote speech that highlighted the company's direction in the ever-important tech ...
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Who's Where: High-profile re-organization at General Motors
General Motors' design division has been re-organized in a spate of high-profile restructuring that comes into effect on 1 August.