Webinars
CDN’s Christmas cracker for 2024
Car Design News writers list their favourite moments of 2024 and Christmas wishes for 2025
Live panel discussion: The future of German automotive design
Register now for our virtual live panel discussion ”The future of German automotive design: a new era in innovation and sustainability” broadcast from Munich, where we will explore the challenges of balancing heritage with the demands of modern mobility, the impact of sustainability on design ethos, and the increasing role of collaboration with suppliers to drive innovation.
Watch now: How to prepare for the AI-future in Automotive Design
Watch our CDN webinar with Autodesk, where Autodesk Product Manager for AI in Automotive and Conceptual Design spoke about how to prepare for the AI-future in Automotive Design
Watch now: Enabling creative innovation in the design studio
Watch our CDN webinar with Autodesk, where Product Managers Phil Botley and Brandon Tasker will be discusing the Agile Design Studio
Watch: More than just a new coat of paint - Alias 2024
Watch on-demand our CDN webinar with Autodesk, where Alias Product Manager Phil Botley will be discusing the new Alias 2024 release.
IAA Mobility Design Conference Livestream
Designing the Future of Mobility
Digital platform brings designers and engineers together
With product design moving toward experience design and in-car experiences becoming increasingly digital, engineers and designers will need to work closer together than ever
Watch: How will CMF shape an electric future?
Watch this premier livestream, in partnership with Ultrafabrics, where our panel will explore new ways to reshape the exterior and interior of cars.
Watch: What’s next for the sports car?
Watch this livestream where we explore the future of the sportscar through the lens of styling, technology, lighting, UX and sustainability
Watch: Is data visualization at the center of your decision-making?
Watch this new webinar, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes where they discuss the visualization and collaboration capabilities of their 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Kevin Czinger on the future of design and manufacturing
Kevin Czinger talks to Car Design News about the 21C and why 3D printing is the future of car design and manufacturing
Watch: Back to the Future of Interiors
Watch this Car Design News livestream featuring General Motors, Group Lotus and Lawrence Technological University as they reflect on changing interiors over the last 20 years and as they look ahead to the next 20.
Watch: What does the luxury car interior of the future look like?
This CDN livestream featured speakers from BMW, Polestar, ELeather, Italdesign and Automobili Pininfarina. We discuss the current definitions of luxury, how consumer attitudes are changing and how design can lead the way to a better future.
IED and Alpine create ornate concept car
Students at IED have produced an ultra-sporty concept car in collaboration with Alpine, aimed at showcasing both eco-friendly and fun-to-drive technologies
Watch Recording: ICEM Design Experience | The New Generation of Surface Modelling
Discover more about the Art of Surface modelling with Dassault Systèmes. Join this live discussion detailing their new 3D modelling application, enginieered with CAS & Class A surface specialists in mind.
Reinventing Luxury with Chris Bangle
At the recent Pratt Institute Design Symposium 2021 on Re-Inventing Luxury held at the Whitney Museum in New York City, car designer and thinker Chris Bangle shared his thoughts on creating a new narrative around luxury design. Car Design News publishes his talk here
Watch: Alias update and roadmap
A look at some of the latest tools in Alias, offering best in Class Workflows, Collaboration and Automation. See how Alias can help Create, Replace, Re-use and Share data across design teams, empowering truly global collaborative design.
Watch recording: Rapid Innovation - How to empower the mobility revolution here & now
Watch this session to discover how you can successfully become a part of the mobility revolution that we’re shaping right here and now, together. You’ll also get a sneak peek at our best practices in such rapid pace processes and discover our own, award-winning VR tool that we created by putting several of those processes into a real work use case.
Watch recording: Experience the next generation of HMI design with Incari Studio
Get a complete overview of Incari HMI development platform.
Watch recording: What’s next for the in-car navigation experience with HERE and Unity
Automotive OEMs are under increasing pressure to creatively differentiate their brands through the in-vehicle user experience. Apart from vehicle engineering and styling, large and integrated HMI screens displaying a complex fusion of maps, media, and dynamic data types are becoming a more significant component of the in-vehicle customer experience.
Watch recording: Autodesk - What’s new in Alias Create VR?
Get a deep overview of the new tools and capabilities in ALIAS CREATE VR, our immersive Sketch and SUBD modelling toolset.
Watch recording: Autodesk - What’s new in Alias 2021.2
Get an overview of the latest updates in Alias 2021.2. See our implementation of Dynamo Player, allowing simple control Dynamo scripts from inside Alias without needing to know Dynamo – allowing access to a library of ‘templates’ to speed up your design exploration, share and re-use across design teams.
Watch: The New Land Rover Defender: Reinventing an icon
Hear from the Land Rover team from the Warwickshire studio for a fascinating insight into the creative challenge of replacing one of the world’s last iconic vehicles - the Defender. Hear from the exterior, interior, and Colour and Material teams with a Design focused talk from the key disciplines followed by a Q&A.
Watch recording: CDN Student Awards China 2020 Announcement / CDN2020 年中国汽车设计大赛云颁奖
CDN is proud to announce the winners of the 11th CDN Student Awards China, celebrating the best Chinese design talent for 2020. Due to the global pandemic, unfortunately, we can’t host the traditional physical Award Ceremony. However, you can watch the first-ever Virtual Ceremony and discover who are the 8 winners of the OEM briefs and 10 category winners, selected by our elite judging panel. From the 10 category winners, we will announce the prestigious Overall Winner for 2020.
Watch recording: Autodesk’s Design Tools – A Single Digital Pipeline.
A look at how tools such as VRED, Alias, and Shotgun are helping companies spend more time designing and refining their designs while using automated processes to deliver manual and repetitive work.
Watch recording: Graduation Day Master TAD at Politecnico di Milano
Where the traditional ‘degree show’ has been prevented due to lockdown and the global pandemic, CDN and Politecnico di Milano bring you the ’Graduation Day Master TAD’ – 11th edition.
Watch: Unreal Engine real-time automotive workflows
Discover how real-time technology will provide a platform for a unified data model with a high-quality visualization system that spans past the current silos in content production, collaboration, and communication.
Watch recording: Autodesk Alias 2021 Class A and Class A Migration Paths
An established Class A tool for decades, see how some of the new features in Alias 2021 move Alias into exciting new areas for Class A.
Watch: Autodesk - Design Collaboration in the age of remote working
See how Autodesk tools like Alias, VRED and Shotgun are helping customers continue to design collaboratively, solve challenges, share ideas and make decisions in this age of ‘remote working’.
Watch: Car Design Review 7 live launch including best Concept and Production Cars of 2019 winners
The top 10 production and concept car designs for 2019, as featured in the Car Design Review 7 hardback annual (out soon), have been announced.
Watch: GAC global design teams collaborating in a virtual world
The GAC international design team, Fan Zhang, Pontus Fontaeus and David Hilton give a detailed digital design presentation about the interior and exterior design development of the GAC ENO.146, the soon-to-launch Aion V EV and reveal intriguing details about a new concept bound for the Beijing motorshow
Watch: College for Creative Studies virtual career event review
For universities, design doesn’t stop during lockdown. The need to connect students with the automotive design industry is facing a huge challenge – but creative solutions are being found.
Watch: RCA’s Dale Harrow & Chris Thorpe virtual learning livestream
For a University student, their course does not stop during the pandemic or lockdown. If anything, the lecturers and students have embraced the challenge with creative solutions.
Watch: Geely’s Guy Burgoyne, SAIC’s Shao Jingfeng and Hyundai’s Simon Loasby livestream
In this livestream discussion, Geely’s Guy Burgoyne, SAIC’s Shao Jingfeng and Hyundai’s Simon Loasby discuss the measures they have and are taking to keep studios working during lockdown and how the Chinese and Korean studios are adapting to going back to work and what measures are in place.
Watch our webinar: How to mitigate falling profits in the automotive supply base
Following our latest report: Automotive Tier Supplier Profit Analysis 2020, watch our webinar: How to mitigate falling profits in the automotive supply base, where our automotive analysts provide more in-depth insights into where Tier 1 supplier profit margins are heading and what the impact will be on automotive R&D.
[Webinar - watch again] Autodesk - “New Concept Modelling tools in Alias 2020”
See the latest Concept Modelling tools in Alias 2020, including Create VR, SUBD modelling and Computational Design capabilities all inside Alias - on a single data pipeline.
[Webinar] Allegorithmic - "SUBSTANCE - Virtual Materials and 3D Textures for Automotive"
See how using Substance, you will rapidly be able to create accurate and complex materials.
Luxoft: Enhancing the relationship with your car
Olaf Preissner, head of UX design at Luxoft, outlines four major trends in mobility and their impact on user experience and interface design
[Webinar] Listen again: Luxoft - The Mobility Revolution: Enhancing the Relationship with Your Car
See how we’re witnessing the arrival of “cars of the future” right here, right now
[Webinar] Listen again: Gravity Sketch and Unity: Empowering creative expression in 3D design workflows
This webinar explores how VR creation tools are putting the designer back at the centre
Do You Speak 3D?
Gravity Sketch brings 3D right to the start of the design process
[Webinar] Listen again: Stahl’s new Leather Trend Collection
Leather design expert Caroline Hartmann presents a webinar for CDN on Stahl’s 2018 Trend Collection
[Webinar] Listen again: Stahl’s new Leather Trend Collection
Leather design expert Caroline Hartmann on Stahl’s 2018 Trend Collection
[WEBINAR] Future Vehicle Concepts – Leveraging technology values through design from UX to virtual reality
What will help users build trust in an autonomous driving car? How can we improve the integration of the car in your daily life? What are future technologies and how can we provide a stunning user experience? This webinar outlines how one company, with deep expertise in creating in-car systems, is planning for an autonomous and shared-ownership future.
Free On-Demand Webinar from Stratasys: 3D Printing Jigs & Fixtures
Find out more about this essential topic
Listen again: Integrating 3D Printing into the product development process
Explore how Volvo Group uses Stratasys solutions for 3D-printed models
Listen again to our 'Autodesk VRED on the HTC Vive - Virtual Reality and Collaboration' webinar
Our latest webinar took place on Tuesday 18 October
Listen again to our 'impact of 3D printing on racecar development' webinar
NASCAR Sprint Cup team Joe Gibbs Racing demonstrates how Stratasys helps them win
Listen again to the Autodesk Alias SpeedForm webinar
'Enhancing the automotive design process' with Autodesk's latest free webinar
Listen again to the 'Bunkspeed presents the Future of 3D Visualization' webinar
Another chance to listen to Bunkspeed's first webinar with CDN, featuring Daniel Simon
Webinars: Listen again to Autodesk’s 'Engineering Visualization for Lighting Design’
Listen again to Autodesk’s 'Engineering Visualization for Lighting Design’ webinar
Listen again to the Linkage Design presents Autodesk VRED 2016 highlights webinar
Another chance to hear the latest Autodesk webinar that talks you through all the latest features in the 2016 version of its VRED software
Webinars: Incorporating Autodesk Maya into your Alias Workflow
How to incorporate Autodesk Maya into your Alias Workflow was the latest complimentary webinar brought to you by Autodesk and Car Design News.
Join CDN live from the RCA on 24 June 2010
Car Design News will be reporting live - via Twitter - from the Vehicle Design MA Degree Show 2010 at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London on the afternoon of Thursday, 24 June (after 13:00 GMT).
Webinars: 'Bring on the Bling' - Lighting with LEDs from OSRAM
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are revolutionizing automotive exterior lighting. No longer restricted by design and implementation constraints associated with traditional light sources, LEDs are providing designers and stylists with fresh canvases, illuminating their creativity. The implementation of this latest technology was the subject a CDN webinar in our ever-growing series.
Webinars: Designing next-gen automotive interiors with LEDs
CDN's second webinar 'Visualization, Illumination and Sensing: Designing Next Generation Automotive Interiors with LEDs' was presented by Osram Opto Semiconductors on 17 February, 2010. View the recorded webinar in our archive by clicking the above link or find out more in the original article below.
Webinars: Autodesk - What is new in Alias v2013?
The first of a four Webinar series was entitled ‘What is new in Alias v2013?' and showcased the capabilities of the company's latest software edition.
Webinars: Listen again to Autodesk 'Automotive visualization, new quality standards in Virtual Prototyping'
Autodesk presented its latest Webinar, 'Automotive visualization, new quality standards in Virtual Prototyping', on 11 April.
Webinars: Technical Surfacing from Autodesk
Autodesk's Technical Surfacing webinar, presented by Uwe Rossbacher, Product Manager for NURBS Modeling/Technical Surfacing at the Manufacturing Solutions Division of Autodesk, was presented on September 21, 2010. The webinar was an introduction to professional NURBS* surfacing and a demonstration of how to evaluate surfaces and users' own level of surfacing ...
Designing the car of the future
Design is still far from having lost its ability to surprise us. In mature markets, far more than owning a vehicle suited for everyday uses in line with how society is changing, the search for differentiation is pushed to the extreme: personalization is getting a little stronger every year based ...
Listen again to Autodesk's Creative Sketching with SketchBook Pro webinar
Autodesk SketchBook Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use digital sketching tool; a blank canvas with all the tools you might use in an analog marker rendering in one mess-free package.
Webinar: Simplified and fast high-end 3D with RTT DeltaPix
The production of images and videos based on 3D data has become a standard routine for designers, engineers, and sales and marketing professionals. RTT DeltaPix aims to make production seamless and efficient by allowing as existing 3D models can be used as is. This complimentary webinar from CDN and RTT ...
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 ...
Webinars: Perceived Quality in the Digital Design World
Car Design News hosted a new webinar with Icona Solutions yesterday, June 8th. Focusing on perceived quality in the digital design world, Icona Solutions' Dr John Maxfield explained how the company's aesthetica software - which enables design teams to gain early insight and resolve fit and finish issues - can ...
Design Services: Listen again to Dassault Systèmes' latest webinar
Dassault Systèmes webinar, ‘The Silverbull Bike made with CATIA for Creative Designers and CATIA Icem V6-R2013x', took place on 13 December at 1000 GMT.
Webinars: Realism & Product Correctness in Realtime from RTT
The quality of 3D visualization has improved markedly in recent years as a result of new algorithms - allowing design decisions to be made on the basis of virtual models. Products, including the interior and exterior design of a vehicle, can now be portrayed very realistically using high-end visualization software.
Webinars: Using an ecological microfiber material for automotive interiors
CDN's third webinar 'Driving the Green Way: the First Ecological Microfiber for Automotive Interiors' was presented by Miko on 31 March, 2010. View the recorded webinar in our archive by clicking the above link.
Webinars: Autodesk - Concept Modelling with Maya
Autodesk presented its third Webinar in the series entitled ‘Concept Modeling with Maya' that illustrates how the software helps to create concept models.
Webinars: Concept Design with CATIA
As part of our successful ongoing webinar series, CDN hosted Concept Design with CATIA on Monday 17 January 2011. View the recorded webinar in our archive by clicking the above link or find out more in the original article below.
Webinars: Concept Development with Autodesk Alias
Concept Development with Autodesk Alias was presented by Kevin Richards of Autodesk on 16 June 2010. View the recorded webinar in our archive by clicking the above link.
Miko’s high performance material with an ecological edge - 2
The advanced technology used during the textile’s production process enables it to be made flame-retardant without applying resins to its underside. As well as being up to 100 percent eco-compatible, the material complies with automotive legislation and standards requirements both inside and outside of Europe.
The Year in Review: 2012
June featured two exhibitions celebrating Italian design. Bertone's 100-year anniversary was rung in with an historic exhibition at Turin's National Car Museum from 29 June to 14 October called ‘One hundred years of car design'.
Webinars: Autodesk - Virtual Design Workflow in Automotive
The second complimentary Webinar from Autodesk, entitled ‘Virtual Design Workflow in Automotive', has taken place, led by Industry Specialist for Technical Surfacing/Styling Uwe Rossbacher.
Webinars: Defining the boundary between Technical and Concept Surfacing using Alias
CDN hosted a new webinar entitled 'Defining the boundary between Technical and Concept Surfacing using Autodesk Alias' on October 13, 2011. The online seminar was especially relevant for design engineers (from aerospace and consumer product industries as well as automotive), for surface modelers, and for lead designers who need to ...
Webinars: 3D sketching technology with CATIA for Creative Designers
Adding to our successful series, Car Design News today hosted a new webinar in collaboration with Dassault Systèmes. Today's webinar presented the latest workflows available in CATIA V6 for Creative Designers - a unified industrial design workflow solution to imagine, create, share and experience virtual product design - and introduced ...
Webinars: RTT Realtime Design & Engineering Reviews
Car Design News hosted Realtime Design & Engineering Reviews Using High-End 3D Visualizations with RTT on April 6, 2011. This particular webinar explored how Virtual Reality is becoming increasingly important in the product development process.
Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards 2010
Royal College of Art vehicle design graduates Marten Wallgren and David Seesing took top honors at the Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards held at the RCA in London on 24 June.
Webinars: Visualization & Digital Effect Creation with Autodesk
Car Design News hosted Visualization & Digital Effect Creation with Autodesk on February 9, 2011. This webinar explored how effective communication is key to 'selling' a particular design internally, and provided information on how to get your vision across using Autodesk Showcase, with an emphasis on materials, cross-sections and environments.
Webinars: Dassault Systèmes presents From Concept to Class-A with CATIA
Car Design News hosted From Concept to Class-A with CATIA Icem, a webinar presented by Dassault Systèmes, on May 3, 2011. The aim of this free online seminar was to highlight and display the benefits of using CATIA V6 in creating high quality surfaces.
Webinars: Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards 2010
The Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards 2010 webinar was presented by Paula Hilditch of Pilkington Automotive at the Royal College of Art in London on 24 June 2010. View the recorded webinar in our archive by clicking the above link.
Webinars: Autodesk Visualization
Autodesk's last Webinar in the recent four-part series, dubbed 'Visualization', is now available to view online for those who missed the live event.
Webinars: Design and visualization of materials and textures
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Webinars: Autodesk presents improvements for Alias 2012
New features and improvements in the latest Alias 2012 release are the subject of a complimentary webinar from Autodesk which took place on July 12, 2011.
‘What is new in Alias v2013?' Webinar to take place 15 August
The first Autodesk Webinar of the year is set to take place on 15 August, promising a fascinating insight into the software's new tools and functions. Register here to attend.
Listen again to Autodesk's 'What is new in Autodesk Alias v2014'
The latest episode in the Autodesk Webinar series, 'What is new in Autodesk Alias v2014', took place on 17 September, but if you missed it you can listen to it here.
Listen again to Autodesk VRED Professional for High End Image Production webinar
Autodesk presented its latest webinar, ‘VRED Professional for High End Image Production webinar' on 24 June.
Webinars: Listen again to Autodesk's 'Dynamic Shape Modeling'
If you missed the Autodesk 'Dynamic Shape Modeling' webinar, you can now relive the session here.
Webinars: Listen again to Dassault Systèmes' 'Interior Cabin Design with CATIA Creative Design and CATIA Icem'
Listen again to Dassault Systèmes latest Webinar, ‘Interior Cabin Design with CATIA Creative Design and CATIA Icem’, which took place on 7 November at 1400 GMT.
Listen again to Dassault Systèmes' 24 September Webinar
Listen again to Dassault Systèmes' latest Webinar, in which it debuted its virtual showcar, 'b l e u', developed by CATIA Design. The Webinar took place on 24 September at 14:00 (BST).Participants had access to the entire design process from the very first sketch to the high-end renderings.Based on the ...
Webinars: Listen again to Dassault Systèmes' '3D Sketch and Concept Modeling of b l e u'
You can now relive Dassault Systèmes' webinar about the ideation and concept modeling of the CATIA 'b l e u' virtual showcar, which took place on 5 December.
Listen again to Autodesk ‘Seamless data preparation pipeline in VRED Professional’ webinar
Autodesk presented its latest webinar, ‘Seamless data preparation pipeline in VRED Professional' on 15 May.
Webinars: Listen again to 16 October 'Autodesk Alias Class-A Surfacing: Accelerating Design Development'
You can now listen again to the latest Webinar in the Autodesk series, 'Autodesk Alias Class-A Surfacing: Accelerating Design Development', which took place on 16 October.
Webinars: Listen again to Autodesk 'Concept Modelling for Automotive'
If you missed the latest Autodesk Webinar - the penultimate in the series - you can listen again to ‘Concept Modeling for Automotive', which took place on 19 November.
Behind the Scenes of CATIA b l e u
Jérôme Derel, visualization expert, worked on the light and matter to emphasize the b l e u's shape. He explains, "On the b l e u project, the team made a high-quality shape with very complex details. It was a solid input for the product experience."
Listen again to Autodesk’s Alias AutoStudio 2015 webinar
Autodesk introduced its latest Alias AutoStudio 2015 software in a webinar held on 25 June. Here's your chance to listen again.
Listen again to the Autodesk Studio Wall webinar
Our first webinar of 2015 took place on Wednesday 28 January. Entitled Autodesk Studio Wall - digital asset management for design and styling professionals, it focused on how Studio Wall software provides an interactive interface which allows end users to explore their designs and those of their colleagues quickly and ...
Listen again to the MODO in automotive design webinar
Listen again to our latest free webinar that shows you how MODO's modeling toolset enables automotive artists and designers to create compelling designs in a fast and fun way. The webinar took place on 10 December, but is now available to listen again at the following link:
Listen again to the Autodesk Alias Scan Surfacing and Quick Surfacing webinar
Autodesk's latest webinar is now available to listen to again at your leisure. The 45-minute webinar presentation took place on 8 October. The presentation was followed by a useful Q&A that's also worth listening to.