AUTO&DESIGN, 40 YEARS OF CAR DESIGN IN A BOOK
When the first issue of Auto&Design was published, in the Autumn of 1979, no one yet imagined the profound transformations that the arrival of digital technology would stamp on the magazine’s two relevant sectors: publishing and car design. Our magazine’s forty-year history, with the attendant evolution of automobile style, are gathered together in the volume “Auto&Design - The Story of the Project”, a book that tells the story [...]
CRUISE ORIGIN, ERGONOMICS AND PRACTICALITY
Cruise, the Californian startup of General Motors dedicated to the development and design of autonomous vehicles, presented Origin, a zero-emission robot vehicle designed to move in the metropolises of the future in a [...]
CITROËN, DESIGN TO BETTER SEE
Throughout its history, Citroën has offered drivers new lighting technologies to get a better view of the road, designed in an original and instantly recognisable style: from the 1922 5HP with standard electric [...]
ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI & BROTHERS: MASTER OF ITALIAN DESIGN
Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto (Migliore + Servetto Architects) have carried out the curation and the exhibition design for the exhibition “Achille Castiglioni and brothers. Master of Italian Design”, at the Hangaram Art [...]
FIAT BARCHETTA TURNS 25: THE DESIGN STORY
The Fiat barchetta turns 25 years old. The little Italian spider project (complete design story on Auto&Design no.90), turns back the clock, even as far as 1948 when the term was coined for [...]
GAC ENO.146, DESIGNED BY THE WIND
The ENO.146 is the new GAC concept car which was developed as a global collaboration between the brand design studios in Guangzhou (headed by Zhang Fan Vice President of GAC R&D), Shanghai (guided [...]
RENAULT CLIO, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING ERGONOMICS
The challenge of new technologies is to make sophisticated systems simpler and more intuitive to use, thanks to well-conceived and, above all, well-designed interfaces. An example of this is second-level autonomous driving, making [...]
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF, TRADITIONAL REVOLUTION
“Innovating without distorting, preserving while improving”. Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen design, and, since April 2020, style boss for all the German group’s brands, points out that radically changing the Golf’s eighth generation would [...]
BREMBO STILE, PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION
For over 50 years, Brembo's braking systems have been pervaded by a mix of technology, innovation and aesthetics, the latter aspect continuing to grow in importance as feedback from both customers and end users [...]
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LAND ROVER DEFENDER, RESPECT FOR THE ORIGINS
It’s up to the market to decide whether the new Defender is, as Land Rover claims, “an icon [...]
FORD MUSTANG MACH-E, MUSCLE SUV
There are cases where the best option is to backtrack and rethink a project from scratch. This is [...]
LEXUS LF-30, CROSSOVER FROM THE FUTURE
Toyota's luxury spin-off brand, the Lexus, was founded in 1989. Today, with thirty years of history behind it, [...]
IVECO DAILY, A LOAD OF REFINEMENTS
While user friendliness and flexibility have always provided the crucial design framework of light commercial vehicles for urban [...]
