ANDREAS MINDT NEW HEAD OF BENTLEY DESIGN
Andreas Mindt has been appointed as Bentley's new head of design. The designer will take up his new role from 1 March 2021. Mindt succeeds Stefan Sielaff, who is leaving the company after [...]
ELECTRA, THE VESPA BY MA-DE
After the Fiat 126 vision project, studio Ma-de has decided to give a modern twist to another Italian design classic: the Vespa. The Italian design studio founded in Como by Andrea Della Vecchia [...]
PEUGEOT DESIGN LAB, NEW STUDIO IN BRAZIL
After Shanghai and San Francisco, Peugeot Design Lab, the brand's style centre dedicated to the realisation of projects outside the automotive sphere, is opening a third studio in Sao Paolo, Brazil. "All the [...]
STEFAN SIELAFF LEAVES BENTLEY DESIGN DIRECTION TO JOIN GEELY
Stefan Sielaff is stepping down as Bentley design director and moving to Geely, the Chinese automotive group whose brands include Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, Lynk&Co and many others. The German designer, after more than [...]
CAR OF THE YEAR 2021, THE FINALISTS
Here are the seven finalists for the 2021 edition of the international Car of the Year award. The winner will be announced on Monday 1 March 2021. Citroën C4/ë-C4 [...]
SINGER ACS, EXTREME AND CLASSIC (GALLERY)
A 911 to race the Dakar. Classic and extreme at the same time. At the request of a customer, Singer developed the ACS by looking back to the golden age of Porsche rallying [...]
TEAM FORDZILLA P1, BEYOND REALITY
Every day thousands of people get behind the wheel and race a high-performance Ford. All this happens thanks to video games and online, but who designs these high-performance cars? Some are production models [...]
DESIGNING THE LUCID AIR
Smooth surfaces and a total absence of edges define the volumes of the Lucid Air, an electric saloon and the first model of the Californian brand founded in 2007 by Bernard Tse and [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | ITALDESIGN BRIVIDO
TOMORROW'S GIORGETTO GIUGIARO GT (Auto&Design no.196) "There are designers who express very free concepts, with the intention of influencing those who work on mass-produced products. I belong to the older generation, I [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ GLA, FEW LINES AND MARKED SURFACES
The new Gla, the eighth model to join the line-up, rounds off the current compact car generation from Mercedes-Benz. At the same time it represents the entry level into the brand’s successful family of [...]