All articles by Tom Phillips – Page 18
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2014 LA Auto Show Design Challenge entries revealed
The organizers of the LA Auto Show have revealed the five entries submitted for the 2014 Design Challenge. Acura, Honda, Infiniti, Peterbilt and Qoros have each attempted to answer the question set by the show's judges: "Sensing the Future: How Will Cars Interact With Us In 2029?"
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Worth a read: Wired's 'Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design'
Wired has just published a series of short articles entitled 13 Lessons for Design's New Golden Age. While there are some interesting examples cited in the piece, the concluding article, ‘Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design' by the former creative director of Wired magazine, Scott Dadich, feels ...
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2015 China Design Schools League Report
In addition to the nine category awards and overall Student Designer of the Year winner, our annual Car Design Awards China also seeks to recognize the fact that top students can't realize their potential without great teaching.
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Who's Where: Bugatti strengthens design team with three new appointments
Bugatti has announced three key appointments to its design team. Design director Achim Anscheidt will now be supported by designers Etienne Salomé, Frank Heyl, and Alexander Selipanov, who all take up senior roles in Bugatti's design management team.
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Maserati Alfieri and Citroën C4 Cactus voted Car Designs of the Year 2014
Car Design News has named the Maserati Alfieri and Citroën C4 Cactus as Car Designs of the Year. The announcement was made during the Car Design Night Geneva event on the evening of the first press day of the Geneva Motor Show.
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Electroluminescent Lumilor coating transforms any surface into a lamp
Thanks to advances in LED and lasers, an emphasis on lamp design is a rapidly growing trend. But what if any or all of a car's surfaces, inside or out, could become lamps at the flick of a switch?
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Artist explores automotive forms by blasting UV paint at a Ferrari in a wind tunnel
The art car has long been a novel way of drawing attention to a specific brand or model. But as a promotional tool for its new California T, Ferrari USA has come up with a novel take on extending the definition of the car as a rolling artwork.
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Infographic: How much clay do Ford’s design studios use each year?
Ford has offered an insight into its clay modeling processes with a series of videos and an infographic that charts the process involved in turning a designer's sketch into a full-size model.
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Help American Dreaming movie tell the story of the postwar era's car designers [w/video]
The makers of a new movie charting America's postwar car designers are seeking donations to make the project become reality. The film's makers are hoping to raise $100,000 to make American Dreaming, a documentary movie that aims to tell the story of the lives of the men and women who ...
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Car Design Awards China 2015 competition now open
2015 CDN中国汽车设计大赛现已启动。此次的设计任务书由包括广汽集团、江淮、沃尔沃、大众、观致和吉利在内的一众主机厂设定，热烈邀请设计专业的在读学生从中选一并完成设计。
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Who's Where: Kevin Rice becomes Mazda Europe’s design director as Peter Birtwhistle retires
Mazda Europe has a new design director. Effective 1 September, Kevin Rice will succeed Peter Birtwhistle, who retires from the post of chief designer, bringing to an end a 26-year career with Mazda.
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Michelin Challenge Design - Chinese Universities competition winners announced
Michelin Challenge Bibendum has been running since 1998. It's an initiative, backed-up by an annual global summit, established by the Michelin Group that promotes clean, safe, connected and affordable mobility by bringing information to political and industrial decision-makers.
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Degler's 2015 calendar pays tribute to Cuba's unique automotive landscape
The 2014 Degler calendar mounted on the wall of the Car Design News office serves up a nicely-shot image of one of Bertone's significant concepts each month. But next year's calendar has taken an altogether different direction: 'Carros de Cuba - a tribute to the cars that have survived over ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Start (2010)
While we're painfully aware of the result of Ford's platform-sharing tie-up with Fiat for the Ka and 500 respectively, the Start concept, unveiled at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show, offered a glimpse of what might have been.
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Brief 3 - Chevrolet: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition
The Car Design News and General Motors Interactive Design Competition is now open to enter, and there are five design briefs to choose from. Each is set by GM's design teams, and you're invited to submit your entry on the competition website: http://www.cardesigncontest.com/
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Brief 2 - Cadillac: CDN-GM Interactive Design Competition
Car Design News and General Motors are once again holding an Interactive Design Competition. There are five briefs to choose from, set by GM's designers, and you're invited to submit your entry on the competition website: http://www.cardesigncontest.com/
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Don't miss CDNLive, reporting on the best from Paris Motor Show 2014
As ever the Car Design News team will be reporting live from the halls of the Paris Motor Show. After the long summer break we're in the French capital for what promises to be a great event.