CAR DESIGN UNDER LOCKDOWN – KLAUS BISCHOFF, VOLKSWAGEN GROUP
Car design depends on teamwork, in sharp contrast to the social distancing the coronavirus pandemic has imposed. How does smart working change creative activity? What consequences will it have on the form of tomorrow’s cars? Auto&Design has asked these questions of carmaker design chiefs and independent style centres. Today is the turn of Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen Group design. How have you organised your work during this [...]
MOLE URBANA, RETRO FUTURE
A small vehicle for urban micromobility that can be shared for people's small daily trips. Mole Urbana, the quadricycle designed by the Turin designer Umberto Palermo, was born with this intent, with squared and [...]
MATTHEW WEAVER VICE PRESIDENT OF NISSAN DESIGN EUROPE
Matthew Weaver has been appointed Vice President of Nissan Design Europe from 1st April. He succeeds Mamoru Aoki, who will retire after 39 years with the Japanese brand. Design Director of Nissan Design [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | FERRARI GG50
CELEBRATORY STILING CUES “After fifty years and some hundreds of cars, just one was missing”, says Giorgetto Giugiaro to explain the GG50, the Ferrari he presented at the 2005 Tokyo Show and with [...]
JOCHEN PAESEN NEW HEAD OF KIA INTERIOR DESIGN
Kia Motors has appointed Jochen Paesen as Vice President of its Interior Design Group. Taking up his new post this March, Paesen will be based at the Kia Design Center in Namyang, Korea [...]
CAR DESIGN UNDER LOCKDOWN – IAN CARTABIANO, TOYOTA
Car design depends on teamwork, in sharp contrast to the social distancing the coronavirus pandemic has imposed. How does smart working change creative activity? What consequences will it have on the form of [...]
CAR DESIGN UNDER LOCKDOWN – ROBIN PAGE, VOLVO
Car design depends on teamwork, in sharp contrast to the social distancing the coronavirus pandemic has imposed. How does smart working change creative activity? What consequences will it have on the form of [...]
VOLKSWAGEN ID.3, ELECTRIC TURNING | CHAPTER 3
THE FIVE DESIGN PILLARS The Volkswagen ID.3 represents a clean break with the past. The vehicle design is the result of an entire re-thinking of the stylistic principles that will also inspire [...]
BMW i8: DOMAGOJ DUKEC ILLUSTRATES THE OUTGOING MODEL
BMW announces the production stop for the i8, coupé and roadster, starting in April. Here is an interview with Domagoj Dukec, head of design for the Bavarian brand, published in Auto&Design n.231 where [...]
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GFG STYLE VISION 2030, THE ALL TERRAIN HYPERCAR
A car without compromises, able to travel at high speeds both on the motorway and on desert dunes [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ VISION AVTR, BIOMETRIC DREAM
Crouching animal-like in full flow with an abundance of luminous scales incessantly stimulating the eyes of the observer, [...]
FCA AIRFLOW, PREMIUM DIRECTION
If the vehicles of the future find themselves with more and more technology on board in the form [...]
KAWASAKI Z H2, A MUSCULAR OUTBURST
The Kawasaki Z H2 is the most powerful naked bike ever produced by Kawasaki. Equipped with the same [...]
