SPD, four metres of style
The successor to the A2 – Audi’s baby – needed to fill a gap in the marque’s revised range has yet to take shape, so why not ask a group of promising design students to [...]
FH-Joanneum, new mountain scenarios
The mountain environment and Alpine sports are an integral part of Austrian culture and social life. The meagre snows and frequent sunny days of last winter revealed a very different mountain scenario from the ones [...]
Monetti, servire con stile
Si è concluso al Salone Internazionale dell’Ospitalità “Host 2007“ il Monetti Tray Design Competiton, concorso ideato e promosso da Monetti Spa e dedicato all’oggetto più caratteristico della produzione storica di questa azienda, il vassoio da [...]
SPD Milano, Avant 2015 hypothesis
Project the Audi Avant concept forward to 2015, developing new forms and aesthetics for it. That was the challenge Walter de’ Silva (Design Director Audi Brand Group) proposed last October to twenty students of the [...]
IED – Fiat X 1/99, attractive transformability
It was one of the most admired concept cars at the Geneva Show, with its iridescent orange colour pointing up attractive curves and a dynamic profile but, in spite of the Fiat trademark, it was [...]
IDII, interactive design
We all interact with technology dozens of times a day in our ordinary lives. We get money out of a hole in the wall; call a friend on our mobile phones; tap out a note [...]
Umeå Institute, make way for fantasy
A collection of bright new ideas, some of them strictly for fun. They emerged from the thesis projects that conclude the master’s course in Transportation Design every year at Sweden’s world renowned Umea Institute of [...]
End-of-year students’ works
Since this issue follows the end of the academic year, Auto & Design thought it appropriate to devote considerable space to the car design schools and to the new young professionals, who come out of [...]
IED Barcelona – A Taxi that talks
A design school that lives in close contact with one of today's most dynamic cities, Barcelona, takes on a theme deeply rooted in the urban reality of the Catalan capital. The project produced for the [...]
IAAD – Interpreting luxury
The contrast between past and present was clear, as you walked along the corridors of the wing in the Biscaretti di Ruffia Motor Museum that had been set aside for a display of graduation thesis [...]