All articles by Rufus Thompson – Page 4
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GM closes UK Advanced Design Studio
CDN has learnt that General Motors is closing its UK Advanced Design Studio as part of its ongoing restructuring program.
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Smart designs eBike
Smart has joined its fellow car manufacturers in designing a bicycle and is putting it into series production.
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Car Design China Award Winners at Umeå
两位2012CDN中国汽车设计大赛的获奖选手踏上了前往瑞典 Umeå Institute of Design的学习之路。这是他们的奖品之一，与其他志同道合的年轻设计师一同学习技艺与最为前沿的科技知识。
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BMW and Local Motors join forces for latest contest
BMW and Local Motors have come together to launch the Urban Driving Experience Challenge, which launches on 25 September.
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Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards 2011
One student designer has made history by winning the prizes for Best Overall Design and Best Use of Glazing at the 2011 Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards. For the first time in the awards' 24-year history, the prizes were awarded to Adam Phillips, a postgraduate of the vehicle design course at ...
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Ssangyong Motor unveils new Design Center at Pyeongtaek plant
Ssangyong has opened a new Design Center at its Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea.
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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera teases Geneva concept car
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera has released a teaser image of its 2012 Disco Volante Concept, which will debut at next month's Geneva motor show.
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Pininfarina family to lose control of company
The Pininfarina family is set to lose its controlling share stake in the company as it takes a step closer to restructuring its €76 million net debt.
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Concept Car of the Week: Vauxhall VX Lightning
Both Ford and Vauxhall celebrated their 100-year anniversaries in 2003, but despite much of the attention being focused on the American giant, GM's UK subsidiary unveiling its own birthday present: the VX Lightning.
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Video: Fiat creates café racer 500 for SEMA
Fiat is preparing a café racer-style 500 for this week's SEMA show by stripping down an Abarth version to take it "down to the essence of what you need to drive a car."
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Video: Jaguar's Julian Thomson on the importance of design values
Jaguar's Head of Advanced Design, Julian Thomson, appeared at this month's PSFK Conference in London giving a talk on design values.
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McLaren launches P1 'Designing by Air' online experience
McLaren has developed a new online experience, 'Designed by Air' to tell the story of the car's design and development.
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Students prepare for Coventry University's annual degree show
Students of Coventry University's Automotive and Transport Design course are getting ready for their annual degree show, dubbed ‘Discover ID'.
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Suzuki's C segment Crossover headed for Geneva
Suzuki has released the first two images of its new C Segment Crossover ahead of its premiere at next month's Geneva show.
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Who's Where: Brett Patterson and Rohan Saparamadu join Geely’s Shanghai studio
Brett Patterson and Rohan Saparamadu have joined Geely as chief designers, based in Shanghai. They will both report to the company's design director Ken Ma.
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Chris Bangle's ‘Illustrate the Future’ competition winner announced
Renowned designer Chris Bangle announced the winner of the ‘Illustrate the Future' design competition as Luis Fernando Peña Delgado at the end of the Interior Motives China conference yesterday.
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BASF launches car seat design competition
BASF has launched 'Sit down. Move.', the first global car seat design competition.
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Audi recruits German and Mexican students to design A0 monocycle
Audi has teamed up with German and Mexican engineering and design students for a project that has resulted in the A0 electric monocycle.
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New concepts to be revealed at Pebble Beach
The international auto show in Frankfurt is but a few weeks away, yet for important new cars in the American market there's further proof that traditional auto shows such as Detroit are being shunned as launch venues in favor of more exclusive and pretigious events. That's because Cadillac, Infiniti, Lexus, ...