NISSAN IMQ, IMPACT DESIGN
The mission for the design team in charge of designing the lines and shapes of the future Qashqai is certainly an arduous one. Designing the new version of a successful SUV, the best seller [...]
BMW 3 SERIES, STYLE AND SPORTINESS
A 40-year career spanning seven generations. The BMW 3 Series undergoes another 360 degree overhaul: from the interior and exterior design, to the engines and the technology at the customer’s disposal. This revolution takes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]