All articles by Owen Ready – Page 8
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Nissan Jikoo (2003)
The curvy two-seater Nissan Jikoo was shown at the 2003 Tokyo Motor Show
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Studio Tour: Yanfeng Johnson Controls
We caught up with Johnson Control's Gordon Miller in China during the last few weeks in his role as Design Studio Manager at Shanghai Yanfeng Johnson Controls. As a designer who cut his teeth in the states, how had he adapted to his time in the Chinese arm of JCI?
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Coventry MA Automotive Design/Vehicle Interiors exhibition 2010
ORCAJeong-Hwa KimInspired by the film Avatar, Kim envisaged a future in which wheelchair users can walk and run freely. The Orca is designed to create as smooth a transition as possible between wheelchair and vehicle, with low-access ramps fore and aft, a 'kneeling' body and an interface which uses the ...
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Coventry MA Automotive Design/Vehicle Interiors exhibition 2010
As the winter takes grip on the northern hemisphere, CDN travel to Coventry, the birthplace of the British car industry - and many a car designer - to catch up with this year's MA Automotive Design and Vehicle Interiors students for their biannual exhibition, held in the city's impressive Transport ...
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I Draw Cars: The sketchbook that puts drawings into perspective
I Draw Cars is a project set up by Adam Hubers and Matt Marrocco - both CCS graduates - to encourage designers young and old to pick up their pens and practice that most basic yet powerful tool in their kit: sketching.
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Studio Focus: SAIC European Design Centre
But is the use of synchronized modeling and videoconference design reviews really a substitute for being in the same studio? While Martin concedes "there's no substitute for being there and reading the body language," there's also the feeling that people feel a little more free to be honest - something ...
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Studio Focus: SAIC European Design Centre
SAIC European Design CentreBrands MG and RoeweEstablished 2010 (in current guise)Location Longbridge, UKStaff 35Studio leader Martin Uhlarik
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Porsche announces new Weissach design center and wind tunnel
Porsche is to invest around €150m into its Weissach development facility, including a new design center. The plans also include an electronics integration department and a state-of-the art, on-site wind tunnel, which is hoped will allow the company to realize an holistic approach to efficient design, with a strong focus ...
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BMW concept stars in Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
BMW's EfficientDynamics concept car will star alongside Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the next installment in the series of hit Hollywood blockbusters.
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Geneva Motor Show 2011 - Trends & Overview
The Lamborghini Aventador, while beautifully executed, is little more than a refinement of the Murcielago/Reventon concept - odd considering its highly advanced new carbon monocoque construction. Think 'Miura' or 'Countach' - 'Diablo' even - and an image of entirely game-shifting flamboyance appears. The Aventador's proportions somehow lack the drama of ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2011 - Trends & Overview
The 2011 Geneva motor show more than lived up to expectations that this would be a vintage year for the Swiss classic.
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Design Review: Renault Captur concept
The Captur's interior is, if anything, even more of a treat than its exterior. Again carbon-fiber is a major structural material - the front seat frames mirroring the roof in mutual appreciation. And it's the seating that grabs your attention as soon as you put your hand up to the ...
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Design Review: Renault Captur concept
The Captur - Renault's second concept car in a series of six life stages - follows on from the universally liked DeZir, unveiled at the 2010 Paris motor show. After that car's remit of "falling in love", the Captur sets out to represent "two people exploring the world", bounding hand-in-hand ...
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Video: Yasushi Nakamuta on Mazda 3's 'unique' design process
It may be leaden with PR-talk but this short presentation by Yasushi Nakamuta, Mazda's director of advanced design studio at the press unveiling of the new Mazda 3 in Melbourne is still worth a couple of minutes of your time.
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Ford invents agile, low-cost solution for prototyping, customization and limited production [w/video]
A new metal forming technique pioneered by Ford that drastically reduces the time and cost of producing low-volume and one-off body parts may lead to cost-effective customization, redesigns, one-offs and limited production runs.
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Whos Where: Hakan Saracoglu appointed design director of Chery's Shanghai studio
Hakan Saracoglu has been appointed director of Chery Motor's Shanghai design facility. He will work alongside director of corporate design James Hope who continues in his role overseeing Chery design.
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Huntsman U-Box concept explores use of carbon materials
If you attended our Car Design Night at this year's Geneva motor show, you may well have seen the U-Box concept vehicle parked outside the entrance. Developed by Huntsman Advanced Materials, this 'last mile' delivery vehicle is a showcase of the company's composite materials expertise.
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Climb through the generous door openings and into the floating bench seat and it's clear that interior designer Stéphane Maïore and color and material designer, Stéphanie Petit had a very clear vision of the theme.
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Design Review: Renault DeZir concept
Which was the last Renault you loved? Not merely liked, but felt a strong emotional connection to? The Avantime? Megane II? Whichever it is, it's unlikely that many would cite a design from la Regie's current range.
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Design Development: Lamborghini Aventador
“We were driven by aeronautics, by nature, by minerals - we found inspiration in crystals and this was very, very interesting.” They may sound like mood board clichés, but the car's surfacing rings true of these sources of inspiration, with the complex interplay of surface and volume.