ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK | BMW GROUP, THE SPEED OF CHANGE
"I love coming here to Villa d'Este, walking among the vintage cars and discovering details I didn't know yet. It's a celebration of design". For Adrian van Hooydonk, Head of BMW [...]
VOLVO CONCEPT RECHARGE, INSPIRED BY NATURE
The change of pace is momentous. Starting from 2030, Volvo will only sell purely electric cars, powered by more efficient batteries and equipped with cutting-edge driver assistance systems to achieve the "zero collision" [...]
TOYOTA BZ4X, THE ADVANTAGES OF WAITING
At a certain point in the conversation, Simon Humphries, head of Global Design at Toyota and Lexus, suddenly stops talking, reflects for a moment and makes the following remark: "When we started designing, [...]
GENESIS X CONCEPT, ULTIMATE ATHLETIC ELEGANCE
Electric spirit and sporty personality. The X Concept offers the sustainable luxury of Genesis in the guise of a high-performance 2+2 electric GT coupé embodying the Korean brand's ideal of audacity and [...]
TOYOTA ED2, WINDOW ON EUROPE
Just a month to go before Winter ends and we pay a visit to Toyota Europe Design Development, sunk in the spectacular backdrop of the hills of Sophia Antipolis, near Nice. [...]
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, A ROBOT FOR A FRIEND
Due to the recent pandemic people have acquired a degree of acceptance of all aspects of automation. Experts attribute this to the role robots have played in handling distancing operations in public [...]
MINI VISION URBANAUT, REINVENTING INTERIOR SPACE
Imagine a Mini. It’ll be a nice memory, because the only features it shares with that of the future will be the position of the wheels, at the four corners, and its footprint, i.e., [...]
STEYR KONZEPT, CULTIVATE THE FUTURE
Surprising spaces often emerge in the universe of agricultural machinery, as though inviting cutting edge technological innovation: the specificity of the field of application, together with the training and professionalism of those who use [...]
HYUNDAI PROPHECY, POSITIVE ATTITUDE
“You smile when you look at this car, you feel happy”. It’s understandable that such a concise seal of approval would come from Youngseong Kim - Sammy to his colleagues. He created the sketch [...]
DS AERO SPORT LOUNGE, THE SOPHISTICATED ALTERNATIVE
While automotive design creatives seem to be training their sights more and more intensely on Suv and crossover silhouettes, the PSA group's luxury brand is exploring a less conformist approach: “One of the basic [...]