All articles by Rufus Thompson – Page 23
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Who's Where: Kevin Rice rejoins Mazda as creative director
Kevin Rice has joined Mazda's European design team as creative director, and will be helping develop the carmaker's ‘KODO - Soul of Motion' design language.
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Autostyle Design Competition 2013: The Results
The results of the tenth annual Autostyle 2013 design competition are in, with three Italian and two French design students earning this year's top plaudits.
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Behind The Scenes: Hot Wheels Design Studio [w/Video]
Hot Wheels' vice president of design Felix Holst has spent some time chatting to Cool Hunting about the brand's design philosophy at its Design Studio at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, California, in a new video.
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Coventry Industrial Design students launch projects blog
The official blog for the 2013 Coventry University Industrial Design Degree Show has launched.
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Multi-touch UI reduces touchscreen interaction to simple swipes [w/video]
Touchscreens have become widespread standard features in many cars over the last few years, consolidating the modern car's many functions into one interface. But despite their advantages there's the big downside of driver distraction, something user interface designer Matthaeus Krenn believes he has solved with his UI.
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Who's Where: Adam Bazydlo appointed Ford's manager, interior design strategy
Adam Bazydlo has been appointed manager of Ford's interior design strategy. He takes up this newly created position reporting directly to global director of Interior Design Amko Leenarts.
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Who's Where: Peter Arcadipane appointed BAIC's design director
Peter Arcadipane has joined BAIC as its new design director. Based at its new hi-tech design facility in Beijing, China, he oversees a team of around 130 designers.
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Toyota to close Australian design studio
Toyota designers at its Technical Center Asia Pacific Australia (TTCAP-AU) are to lose their jobs as part of Toyota's decision to scale back the facility's activities as well as halting all manufacturing within the country by 2017.
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EyesOn Design Awards 2014 presented in Detroit
The winners of the EyesOn Design Awards have been announced in COBO Hall at the end of the second press day of the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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Local Motors Active Lifestyle Vehicle Challenge winner announced
The winner of the first Local Motors Active Lifestyle Vehicle Challenge has been revealed as John Bukasa, who won $1,500 for his CLIMAX design.
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RCA team helps develop all-electric London taxi proposal
The Royal College of Art's Vehicle Design program and the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design have collaboratedwith Turkish car manufacturer Karsan to develop a proposal for the first all-electric London taxi.
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Suzuki announces trio of concepts for Tokyo
Suzuki has announced it will unveil three new concepts at next month's Tokyo motor show.
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Car Design of the Year winners awarded at Car Design Night Geneva 2013
The winners of the 2012 Car Design of the Year Awards, as voted for by Car Design News readers, were announced at the annual Car Design Night at By Pass nightclub on the evening of the first Geneva motor show press day.
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Italdesign Giugiaro transforms 'Golf Vision 2020' winning design into hard model
Italdesign Giugiaro transformed an Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design (IAAD) student's thesis project into a 1:4 scale model after it was chosen by Giorgetto Giugiaro as the best Masters project in the ‘Golf Vision 2020' challenge.
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Lotus and Daniel Simon collaborate on C-01 hyperbike project
Lotus has announced the impending launch of its first motorcycle, the C-01, penned by automotive designer and futurist Daniel Simon.
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Honda's FCEV concept previewed ahead of LA show
Honda has announced its FCEV concept will be making its world debut at the upcoming Los Angeles auto show.
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ArticleRCA students open Clerkenwell Week Design with Jaguar-inspired artwork
Two Royal College of Art students have designed a Jaguar-inspired sculpture to celebrate the opening of Clerkenwell Design Week in London.
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Bentley uses 3D printing to prototype new designs [w/Video]
3D printing is changing the way the world makes things by helping people of all disciplines to enhance and refine their ideas cheaply, quickly and effectively.
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The Technology Behind F1 Cars: Aerodynamics [w/Video]
Ferrari's latest video in its ‘Discover the technology of Formula 1' YouTube series sees Scuderia Ferrari's deputy design chief Simone Resta focusing on the chassis and side pods' design and its effect on the aerodynamics.
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Video: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition featured by Faces of GM
'Faces of GM', one of General Motor's social media initiatives, has released its latest video featuring our recent collaborative contest, the CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition.