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Panic is probably too strong a word for the atmosphere at the Mondiale de l’Automobile in Paris this year, but to say that it was pervaded by fear and uncertainty on the part of industry [...]

This year, Alfredo Häberli proposes a kitchen perceived as something to taste, something to smell. An invitation to the senses, if you will, of taste and smell, but also a stimulus for our ‘involuntary’ memory, [...]

Just when you thought that everything which could be designed already has been, from Thonet chairs to Le Corbusier-esque chair-machines and from Gio Ponti type reinterpretations of the traditional chair to more recent studies developed [...]

The French marque emphasised its role as a patron of design with the competition for young designers titled C-Design: Combine, Connect, Create. The brief was to reinterpret and combine a hundred mechanical and bodywork components [...]

Objects today, especially those with high tech content, are experienced increasingly by touch and often with a simple brush of the finger. The term ‘touch design’ aptly describes many of today’s interfaces between user and [...]

Yes, there were more than fifty new products on display at the 2008 North American International Auto show, but that does not mean it was a benchmark show; it was in fact perhaps the least [...]

On the last day of last year, the great Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass passed away. His life, which began in Innsbruck almost a century ago in 1917, and career alike were distinguished by [...]

What sort of car should we expect to see at the end of this devastating financial crisis, that has swept aside the social and productive relations we have always known and which, for better or [...]

The Tokyo Motor Show opens a window on to some of the possible directions that the Japanese automotive industry may take in future. In today’s gloomy scenario, with a market that is losing momentum and [...]