Design story – BMW 1-Series, Bangle’s ideas
Take a closer look, walk round it a couple of times and you're bound to notice the unmistakable hand of Chris Bangle. The look of the new 1-Series is indisputably BMW: for all those sharp [...]
Lancia Musa, grafting ideas
How to make a 5-door Ypsilon in record time and at no more than modest cost. That was the challenge implicit in the brief presented to the Lancia design team. Their response was the Musa, [...]
The three faces of Pininfarina
An overview of Pininfarina's highly diversified activities to celebrate its 75 years in business as well as a uniquely important display on its stand at the Paris Motor Show. The Cover Story in this issue [...]
Tesco/Menarini Avancity city bus, geometric armonies
A rectangle moving through the tangled web of city traffic: this is the image which inspired Mario and Sandro Vernacchia, Director and Chief Designer of the Transport Division of the Turin-based company Tesco in their [...]
Milan Furniture Fair, between Baroque and minimalism
Colour, transparency, as well as a great deal of black and white, revisitations of classic models and sophisticated decorations: the latest proof of the closing gap between design and fashion. These were the main trends [...]
Opel Trixx, packaging e architettura
Il packaging intelligente contraddistingue da anni la maggior parte dei concetti di design avanzato Opel. La Trixx che ha debuttato a Ginevra rappresenta quindi il successivo passo logico verso la creazione di un package interno [...]
Hyundai E³, born from the dunes
E for Europe. That could have been enough, as a name for the first concept car to come out of Korean manufacturer Hyundai’s new European Design Center in Rüsselsheim, Germany. But its designers wanted to [...]
Audi Group: three brands, three sporting images
An overview of the current sparkling array of Audi Brand Group products, starting with the leading player himself, director of design Walter De’ Silva. The cover story of issue 147 of A&D leads us through [...]
Mitsubishi Colt, the search for identity
“To get to the Colt we have undertaken a process, taking our clients from the DNA of the concept car up to the production model”. The satisfaction of Olivier Boulay, director of design at Mitsubishi, [...]
With revival in mind
In 2003 Fiat Auto was still 979 million euros in the red. So what’s the way out of that quagmire? Design, of course. Today a wind of change is blowing through the bodyshops and the [...]