From central Italy to Denmark and not on its natural track, but loaded onto special transporter trucks that took three weeks to drive across Europe. That was the journey made in August by the first [...]
"It was really very hard to move from designing the C3 to the C2. Naturally enough, the first C2 sketches reiterated the rounded, bulbous look of the C3, so that what we got was almost [...]
This is the story of a success with its roots in the past that fits well into the present and may well find a role in the future. Auto & Design n° 143 traces the [...]
In conversation with Fedde Talsma, the Chief Designer in charge of the Volvo S40, Wim Oude Weernink traces the story and examines the constituent elements of the project that culminated in this new Volvo model. [...]
The Tokyo Motor Show always produces a tidal wave of extravagance and exaggeration, but this year's seems to suggest a change of mood that may have been around for some time. Some of the Tokyo [...]
Alberto Bassi traccia un ritratto di Antonio Citterio, architetto italiano di spicco che da tempo firma progetti per alcune delle maggiori industrie dell’arredamento internazionale, tra cui Kartell, Flos, Arclinea, Ansorg. Dalla formazione sul campo a [...]
The new course of Volkswagen design summed up in a prototype created under the guidance of Peter Schreyer, who has been in charge of VW design since last year. As seen at the Frankfurt Show, [...]
This new Italian flagship that has won the heart of Italy's President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, just as the 1976 edition, designed by Giugiaro, caught the eye of the then President Sandro Pertini, is the best [...]
The story of a car assigned the hard task of taking the name and inheriting the role of a triumphant predecessor. Silvia Baruffaldi tells the whole complex story: from the initial Ecobasic concept to the [...]
The global structure of Nissan Design and the role of Shiro Nakamura, its director since Autumn 1999. Auto & Design 142 devotes a dossier to the Japanese brand's design centres around the world, at a [...]