All articles by Tom Phillips – Page 12
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2016 Michelin Challenge Design entries close on 1 June
The entry deadline for the 2016 Michelin Challenge Design is fast approaching. There are just two weeks left to submit your entries to the competition, ahead of the 1 June deadline.
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ArticleNew Car: Chevrolet Camaro (2016)
Although the latest sixth-generation Camaro shares nothing but the bowtie logo mounted on the trunk lid with its predecessor, the design of Chevrolet's 2016 Camaro has kept close to the formula established by the outgoing model.
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Design Contest: Toyota opens forklift design competition for European students
Toyota Material Handling Europe has launched its latest design competition. Following the inaugural competition held two years ago that asked students to create a new tow tractor, the latest edition concentrates on creating "a forklift like you've never seen before."
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: NSU Trapeze (1973)
The rotary-powered four-seater concept that put safety first
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GM to build new design studios as part of $1-billion investment in Warren Tech Center
General Motors has announced a $1-billion investment program for its Tech Center in Warren, MI. The multi-year project is the biggest in the Center's 59-year history, and will see a host of new building and renovation work take place at the Tech Center campus between now and 2018
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“A Century of Automotive Style – 100 Years of American Car Design” back in print
Specialist book publisher Lamm-Morada has announced that is has reprinted 500 copies of Dave Holls and Mike Lamm's hardcover chronicle of the past hundred years in US car design. Called A Century of Automotive Style – 100 Years of American Car Design, the book is widely regarded as a must-have ...
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US DoT makes rear-view cameras compulsory
The US Department of Transportation (DoT) has issued a new safety standard for rear visibility that requires mandatory fitment of rear-view cameras. The ruling applies to all new vehicles, excluding motorcycles, weighing under 10,000 pounds (4,536kg) sold from 2018.
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Bentley designers talk 'Intelligent Details' in movie shot on iPhone
Bentley has released a short documentary featuring director of design, Luc Donckerwolke, and SangYup Lee, its new head of exterior design, taking a ride around New York City in the back of a pair of Mulsannes.
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Chris Bangle Associates to collaborate with super-yacht makers Sanlorenzo
Chris Bangle and his consultancy, Chris Bangle Associates (CBA), has entered a strategic collaboration with Italian super yacht firm Sanlorenzo.
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College Exhibition: Royal College of Art 2014
Robert CrickChrysalisWith autonomous cars becoming ever-more feasible, this project addresses the potential for a new direction for automotive design not just in form, but in materials, too. Crick collaborated with a textiles student to develop a woven metal fabric for the body that's designed to be as pleasing to touch ...
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College Exhibition: Royal College of Art 2014
Since its establishment in the 1970s, the Royal College of Art's vehicle design course has become the self-styled world leader in its field. Its course alumni occupy top positions in global automotive design departments, a fact that its graduating students are well aware of come degree-show time.
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Concept Car of the Week: Nissan NX-21 (1983)
In the early 1980s, with the new millennium still seemingly an age away, Nissan Design America was tasked with imagining the family car of the future, while giving potential buyers a preview of the forthcoming N13 NX and EXA models. The resulting concept would be shown at the Tokyo motor ...
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Design an MG sports car for 2025, win a scholarship and internship at SAIC
SAIC has announced its second university student design competition. To be in with a shout, SAIC wants students to design a dream sports car or GT car for the MG brand to be launched in 2025. The brief asks for a concept that must not only must reference MG's history ...
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Who's Where: Toyota design chief moves to head-up Yamaha design
Akihiro Dezi Nagaya has moved from his position as chief designer at Toyota to Yamaha Motor Company, where he will take up the post of chief general manager of design. The move became effective on 1 July, and sees Nagaya move from his position as CEO of Tecno Art Research, ...
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2014 EyesOn Design Vehicle Categories Announced
The vehicle categories for this year's EyesOn Design exhibition have been announced. Each of the seventeen categories has been selected to complement the theme of this year's - 'Automotive design's influence on popular culture'.
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
The final session of day one was the first of two dedicated to the idea of what represents luxury today.
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
David Muyres, executive director of global product innovation at Johnson Controls, explored the potential benefits that autonomous cars may bring. His top five concerns for the future of the automobile, from improving the quality of time spent in a car to the physical space your car occupies when it's not ...
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CDN-Interior Motives China Conference 2014 - Day 1
The seventh edition of CDN's Interior Motives China Conference has just taken place in Beijing, ahead of the world's most important motor show and in the world's largest car market. The theme of this year's event, ‘Mobilising the new urban landscape' is extremely pertinent to anyone who has experienced the ...
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Q&A: David Townsend, GM global design director, user experience
GM's new design director of user experience, David Townsend, has only been in the job just over a month. But with a remit extending to the interface design of every vehicle in GM's global portfolio, his influence will soon be widespread.
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Local Motors reveals 3D-printed car design
Local Motors has chosen the design it will 3D-print during the course of the International Manufacturing Technology Show (ITMS) in Chicago, IL, which runs from 8-13 September.