All articles by Robert Forrest – Page 2
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Interview: Peter Horbury, Executive Director of Design, NA, Ford Motor Company
Peter Horbury has been Ford Motor Company's Executive Director of Design, North America, since January 2004 after two years spent championing design for the Premier Automotive Group. Still answering to J Mays, his responsibilities now include overseeing design strategy and execution of all Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products in North ...
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Design Review: Nissan Urge concept
Click for larger imagesPhotos: Brett Patterson, Nissan'Adrenalin' colour concept by Anke Mazzei'Gear' concept also used to inform interior trimLightweight seats use webbing for back and lumbar supportInside, vivid yellow trim is offset by the more modest black/silver paint of the exterior. The colour imprints itself on one's retina as much ...
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Design Review: Nissan Urge concept
In response to this increasingly influential discipline, the Urge includes an Xbox 360 and a rear view mirror that doubles as its display. Games are uniquely played using the same steering and pedal controls as for the car.The Urge, however, has appeal beyond these additional features. Penned by Nissan Quest ...
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Design Development: Pixar 'Cars'
To assist characterisation, eyebrows were needed beyond the readily incorporated eyelids, being realised formally by deepening the roof above the front screen and widening the rubber key-line. But what defined the characters themselves? Again, the trip to Route 66 paid dividends as locals inspired members of the cast. For example, ...
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Design Development: Pixar 'Cars'
Pauley joined Pixar in 1993 at the beginning of production on Toy Story, and served as sketch artist before becoming art director for A Bug's Life. A self-confessed car-nut, Pauley headed the Cars project after a successful pitch for the film at the beginning of 2001. The initial team comprised ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz CL-Class
Extra sculpting carries the IP along the centre console into the rear, dividing the bench in two. Sit here and the benefits of the extended roofline are obvious, the seats are also more cosseting than those in the Bentley, though the square central glovebox and armrest is at odds with ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz CL-Class
The Mercedes-Benz CL is in many ways the most traditional of cars, sharing its layout with one that started the grand tourer class over a century ago, the Mercedes Simplex. Once again, Mercedes has offset its conservatism by applying the latest technology, as befits a car that sits at the ...
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Designer Interview: Bryan Nesbitt, Executive Director, GM Europe Design
Do you feel that your relative youth, for your position, has given you any advantage?"I find it comes down to having a design-enthusiast's mind-set more than it ever comes down to age. We still see Giugiaro producing some phenomenal work, and I designed alongside Bob Lutz at Chrysler - despite ...
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Designer Interview: Bryan Nesbitt, Executive Director, GM Europe Design
Bryan Nesbitt presents the Opel Antara concept at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show. Click for larger images. Click for larger imagesPresentation by Bryan Nesbitt at the 2001 Autoweek Design Forum focused on the development of the PT CruiserPT Cruiser concept sketch (1996)GME presentation at the 2005 Geneva Motor ShowAt ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Though deliberately sparse, the interior strikes a good balance between the aesthetic consequentiality of engineering and stylistic touches from the designer, Crittenden successfully blending her themes of '...raw...dark...and brooding.' Time was also spent designing a bespoke seat that differed from typical race-modified options, Kingsbury instead creating a sedentary carcass, with ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
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Show Review: Goodwood Revival 2005
The true legends of motoring history rolled out after this, with Babs, a 1923 Thomas Special, racing competitively for the first time since 1926. It was exhumed in 1969 after its burial for killing John Parry-Thomas on his attempt to break the 200mph barrier in 1927. Now restored, Babs has ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Revival 2005
For three days each year, Goodwood steps back fifty years as owners and drivers the world over bring their historic cars face-to-face in sixteen consecutive races. With participants and spectators alike dressed in tweed and fur, the post-war atmosphere is utterly convincing and quite unique, and brings battles on the ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006
Behind Cartier's jardin, Ferrari's prancing horses were docked within the Goodwood stables. Having its UK debut here was the 599GTB, displayed in attractive new Monza Red, and yellow, making graphics easy-to-read, though also exposing uneven paint finish and wide panel gaps. Fresh from a prolonged stint in their showroom on ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006
European car enthusiasts have been spoilt this summer: aside from Grands Prix circulating the continent, there were 24 hour races at the Nurburgring, Germany, and Le Mans, France, a Concourse d'Elegance in Italy, while Britain hosts the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Though only its fourteenth year, the Festival now claims ...
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Design Essay: Pseudomotive Design
Meanwhile, Gehry has been working in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Wayne Cherry, formerly Design Director General Motors. Gehry has already discussed collaborating with Ford - before he mentioned his fee, a situation that has repeated itself with General Motors. But despite withdrawing his active role, the ...
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Design Essay: Pseudomotive Design
It has been six years since Ford displayed the O21C by Marc Newson at the Milan Furniture Fair and brought awareness to the inter-relation between car and product design. Since then, Newson has turned his attention to planes with the Kelvin 40 jet concept, while also creating sneakers for Nike ...
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Show Review: Milan Furniture Fair 2006
Back in Hall 12 American company Emeco unveiled the latest addition to their range of chairs: 'Icon', by Phillippe Starck, joins the Designworks piece revealed last year, similarly using anodised aluminium in its construction. In the same hall, Italian design company Horm presented wardrobes by Karim Rashid and American Steven ...
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Show Review: Milan Furniture Fair 2006
Located in one of Europe's most fashionable cities, the Italian design fair is in its 45th year, newly housed in 'Fieramilano' west of the city centre. That the venue effectively disperses crowds knotted on the underground says something about its size and the somewhat compromised transport infrastructure that has to ...
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Show Review: Milan Design Week 2007
Zaha Hadid also found time to develop vases for Serralunga, as did Lovegrove and French designer Jean-Marie Massaud. All were huge and botanically-formed, though the negative volume of Hadid's piece was barely adequate for a single stem; the flower a flippant rationale for an otherwise highly emotional and extravagant product. ...
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