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The big bad wolf may at last be leaving. One thing is for certain, it is no longer baying at the doors of carmakers and designers. Two years of recession in the automotive industry have [...]

Design first and foremost. There is a perfect backdrop for every car, and in the case of the new Audi A8 for its debut, this was the sunny climate of Florida during Design Miami and [...]

Thirty years of automotive design and thirty years of Auto&Design. There could have been no more appropriate theme for the sixth edition of Autostyle, held in Mantua on October 7 and 8, the annual competition [...]

Aldo Mantovani è morto a metà del giugno scorso. Aveva 82 anni, ne abbiamo dato notizia nell’editoriale dell’edizione di luglio-agosto, immediatamente e un po’ sommariamente (la rivista era già in avvio di stampa), ma non [...]

In 2012, incandescent light bulbs will be prohibited and, in spite of attempts by the Italian government to limit the extent of European legislation governing energy consuming products, everything will change. In the meantime, news [...]

As always, the recently concluded 2009 edition of the Milano Design Week saw numerous exercises in style and many attractive proposals conforming with the new canons of the third millennium (environmentally correct and innovative in [...]

For many years, pedal power has represented a real alternative to the motor car in northern Europe, and interest in the bicycle is now growing rapidly in other countries, too, as it is a sustainable [...]

For the layperson, the creative process involved in the designer’s job can be quite difficult to grasp. How can a car’s inception begin from the idea of a fish (such as the extraordinary Mazda Senku [...]

Created between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the city became a place for a pleasant stroll and a landscape open to the citizen, the park bench offered a vantage point from which to admire [...]