A quindici anni dal lancio della prima generazione, sulla linea diretta Nagoya Osaka, la compagnia ferroviaria privata Kinketsu ha inaugurato una versione completamente rinnovata del suo treno Urban Liner, puntando in gran parte sul design. [...]
After years of aggressively shaped, violently coloured domestic appliances, the tide seems to have turned, as if to underline the value of the home as a haven, a tranquillising place where you want to surround [...]
Two very different concept cars that both hint at the future of the brand’s production models and cast light on its pure research operations, since both are excluded from immediate production plans. They dominated the [...]
Leonardo Fioravanti came to the Geneva Show with the Kite, a rear wheel drive coupé concept most notable for its LED lighting system and its “semi-transparent” roof. “ The Kite’s LED lighting system”, he explained, [...]
Piccola, tondeggiante, sbarazzina. La Trepiùno svelata a Ginevra ispira simpatia a prima vista e fa appello all’immaginario collettivo riproponendo le sembianze della minivettura italiana per eccellenza, la storica Fiat 500 del 1957. «La sfida era [...]
Female designers and engineers are no longer a rarity in automotive design. And they’re no longer confined to Colour and Trim duties either. Today, women can be asked to design the exteriors and interiors of [...]
"The way we build our cars is absolutely fundamental to the way they look". That statement by Chris Bangle, the BMW Director of Design, leads Robert Cumberford to think about modern manufacturing methods in the [...]
This issue's cover story is devoted to Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro, the creators of two new concept cars unveiled at the 2004 Geneva show: the Alfa Romeo Visconti and the Toyota Alessandro Volta. Fulvio Cinti [...]
"The home of great ideas", shrieked the posters and the press releases for the spring edition of the Macef international homeware exhibition in Milan. This was the first show since last autumn's relaunch, which was [...]
"Taking over from Wayne Cherry is an enormous responsibility but also a challenge I have willingly accepted". Against the backdrop of the 2004 Detroit Show, Ed Welburn, General Motors' new Design Vice President, paints Auto [...]