IED Tesla Eye, the shape of efficiency
“Choosing innovation for a project that makes innovation its mission” is how IED Turin director Cesar Mendoza sums up the spirit of the Eye project developed by the students of the Master of Arts course [...]
Peugeot SR1, a radical change in image
Peugeot is reinventing itself again, announcing integrated mobility projects exploiting the brand’s presence in the scooter and bicycle markets as well as in the automotive market. This hints at a future repositioning of the brand [...]
Mini, proliferation of an icon
After the intriguing Crossover concept presented at Paris in 2008 and the fun Beachcomber concept which hinted at a return of the unforgettable Moke last January at Detroit, the production model – the fourth in [...]
Toyota FT-86, back to the coupé
Low, red and streamlined with a truly sporty set-up and attitude, the FT-86, presented by Toyota at the last Tokyo Show, is Japanese through and through. And yet it was designed in Europe by the [...]
Hyundai ix-Metro, space inspiration
A pine cone from outer space? This could be one way to describe the car, given that Hyundai's designers openly state that for their ix-Metro hybrid concept - a CUV, or City Utility Vehicle, for [...]
Jaguar XJ, cambio generazionale
Cosa può essere più difficile che creare l'erede di una vettura ammirata da quattro decadi e tuttora considerata un capolavoro del design automobilistico? La berlina Jaguar XJ era una vera icona e persino la versione [...]
BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics, il valore della leggerezza
Aerodinamica, leggera, futuribile. Al primo sguardo viene spontaneo descrivere così la concept Vision EfficientDynamics, presentata da BMW al salone di Francoforte. Il direttore del design del gruppo bavarese, Adrian van Hooydonk, conferma che le sensazioni [...]
Offspring of Rembrandt and Rubens
With the recent nomination of Laurens van den Acker to succeed Patrick Le Quément as head of design at Renault, we have the curious situation in which designers from Belgium and Holland, countries that have [...]
BMW 5 Series GT Concept, functional flexibility
It is a car conceived before the crisis, but developed with the post-crisis era already in mind. “We thought about what is changing in the car world”, explains Adrian van Hooydonk. “Motorists will be much [...]
VW Polo, in praise of formal dialogue
Attention to detail as an expressive means in its own right, essential and logical forms and graphic elements created by intersecting volumes instead of being mere applied decoration. This is how the new Polo took [...]