A FAREWELL TO FULVIO
Fulvio Cinti has left us. The founder of Auto&Design passed away yesterday, 15 August, just before his 96th birthday. Ahead of his times, Fulvio Cinti founded Auto&Design, an international bilingual magazine, in 1979 at [...]
FH JOANNEUM WOOD C.A.R. – COMPUTER AIDED RESEARCH
Lightness and sustainability of materials. The topic chosen for development during the first semester of the Master in Industrial Design, specialising in mobility, at the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences originated in respect [...]
OPEL, A STYLING “COMPASS”
It's called Vizor and it will become the modern face of a new generation of cars with the Blitz. It is a grille so specific that it deserves a name of its own: it [...]
SERGIO MARCHIONNE AND THE OFFICINA 83
"I saw factories that would not have been out of place in a novel by Dickens”, said Sergio Marchionne shortly after his appointment as Managing Director in 2004, quickly realising it would be necessary [...]
ALESSANDRO DAMBROSIO NEW MITSUBISHI EXECUTIVE DESIGN DIRECTOR
Updated on July 25. From October 2018, Alessandro Dambrosio will join Mitsubishi Motors as Executive Design Director of Advanced Design. He will report directly to Tsunehiro Kunimoto, Corporate Vice President of Design Division and [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ SENSUAL PURITY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Auto&Design was in Sindelfingen to discover how the 'Sensual Purity' will evolve in the next years. 'Sensual Purity' is the design philosophy implemented by Mercedes-Benz in order to make each one of its brand, [...]
MINI “OPEN AIR” HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES FOR MINI LIVING
Last week, in conjunction with the annual LA Design Festival, MINI LIVING presented its third version of the concept of a minimal housing concept unit for urban nomads on the roof of the former [...]
OPEL, FOUR APPOINTMENTS IN THE BIRTH OF A CONCEPT
What does German identity mean? This is the crucial question around which the stylistic (and other) destinies of the Blitz revolve. Less than a year after its acquisition by PSA, the Rüsselsheim office [...]
PORSCHE DESIGN, THINKING AHEAD
Maybe there actually is something like hoping the end will come soon, “or at least that’s what I start to think on hearing the same thing for the third time at a trade fair [...]
BREMBO, STYLE AND COLOUR
The braking system as an element of style. The idea of colouring calipers came to the people at Brembo in 1992, and over time it has become a veritable signature that makes this brand’s [...]