KIA PROCEED, KOREAN SHOOTING BRAKE
Designed, developed, produced and sold in Europe. The Korean maker Kia thought of the Ceed as a car especially for the Old Continent. It is now in its third generation and available in three [...]
COTY 2019 FINALISTS | FORD FOCUS
Twenty years after. The Ford Focus has been renewed for the fourth time since 1998, when the first series brought a breath of stylistic innovation to the C segment. "The new design started out [...]
TOYOTA RAV4, REDESIGNING AN ICON
Designing a completely new car can be complex, but putting your hands on a success is even worse. The Toyota Rav4 carved out a new car segment for itself 20 years ago. Over the [...]
GAC MOTOR, A NEW DESIGN CENTER IN SHANGHAI
Auto&Design has been to Shanghai for the inauguration of the new Gac Motor’s Advanced Design Center. The brand's design centers number has now reached three, all located in different parts of the world: “We [...]
TUC.TECHNOLOGY, THE USB OF MOBILITY
A powerful, connected interface for vehicles of the future. The Tuc.technology project has been presented in Turin by Ludovico Campana and Sergio Pininfarina, the two founders of the May 2018 start up, and promises [...]
HYUNDAI NEXO, SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Not a single edge. That’s the first thing you notice when you look at the Hyundai Nexo, the new hydrogen-powered Suv from Korea. The car flows smoothly from front to rear, with no broken [...]
FH JOANNEUM WOOD C.A.R. – COMPUTER AIDED RESEARCH
Lightness and sustainability of materials. The topic chosen for development during the first semester of the Master in Industrial Design, specialising in mobility, at the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences originated in respect [...]
SERGIO MARCHIONNE AND THE OFFICINA 83
"I saw factories that would not have been out of place in a novel by Dickens”, said Sergio Marchionne shortly after his appointment as Managing Director in 2004, quickly realising it would be necessary [...]
FORD FOCUS, THE HUMAN-CENTRIC REVOLUTION
Twenty years after. The Ford Focus has been renewed for the fourth time since 1998, when the first series brought a breath of stylistic innovation to the C segment. "The new design started out [...]
BREMBO, STYLE AND COLOUR
The braking system as an element of style. The idea of colouring calipers came to the people at Brembo in 1992, and over time it has become a veritable signature that makes this brand’s [...]