The best place to work
Does the place where a designer works influence the form and function of his creations? It was a question that occurred to Robert Cumberford at the opening of Renault's new Bastille design centre in the [...]
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 [...]
GK Design Europe – Yamaha in sauce hollandaise
The role of design in motorcycle engineering is often ignored, but offers plenty of food for thought, given bike fans' ever increasing interest in the form, as well as the functional qualities, of their chosen [...]
Bertone/Iveco Eurocargo, aesthetically rational
Profitability, fuel economy and reliability are what buyers look for in a truck. Which does not mean that having settled those fundamental points, truck users don't care what they look like. And that was precisely [...]
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 [...]
Limiti di tempo
Nessuno dovrebbe dirigere una primaria organizzazione per più di sette anni. Questo era uno dei principi fondamentali di Robert Townsend, un executive americano molto brillante che divenne noto al grande pubblico quando, quarant'anni fa, risanò [...]
Un nuovo benessere
Per realizzare un bagno - impresa già di per sé ardua - non basta più scegliere fra i diversi modelli di lavabo, water, bidet, vasca, rubinetterie, accessori. Perché il bagno non è più solo il [...]
Jaguar XJ, the age of aluminium
Two separate articles in this issue of A&D describe the technological innovations and the design features of a historic product, the Jaguar XJ. On sale since the spring, the seventh generation of this great British [...]
Citroën Pluriel, the return of fantasy
An unconventional design process for a car different from any other on the market. We trace the path of the Pluriel project with Donato Coco, the Chief Designer responsible for Citroën's Platform A. In October [...]
BMW 5-Series, formal distances
he new version of the BMW flagship model, the 5-Series, reiterates the styling guidelines promulgated by the brand's Director of Design, Chris Bangle. Auto & Design tells the story behind the new saloon by means [...]