MOLE URBANA, RETRO FUTURE
A small vehicle for urban micromobility that can be shared for people's small daily trips. Mole Urbana, the quadricycle designed by the Turin designer Umberto Palermo, was born with this intent, with squared and [...]
MATTHEW WEAVER VICE PRESIDENT OF NISSAN DESIGN EUROPE
Matthew Weaver has been appointed Vice President of Nissan Design Europe from 1st April. He succeeds Mamoru Aoki, who will retire after 39 years with the Japanese brand. Design Director of Nissan Design [...]
TUC.TECHNOLOGY, A CONTEST TO IMPROVE LIFE ON BOARD
TUC.technology has organized a design competition aimed at re-imagining how life on board of vehicles can be improved thanks to TUC modular and plug&play technology. The contest is open to professionals, students, design [...]
JOCHEN PAESEN NEW HEAD OF KIA INTERIOR DESIGN
Kia Motors has appointed Jochen Paesen as Vice President of its Interior Design Group. Taking up his new post this March, Paesen will be based at the Kia Design Center in Namyang, Korea [...]
CAMILLA KROPP NEW CHIEF DESIGNER AT HiPHi HUMAN HORIZONS
Camilla Kropp, former designer at Bugatti, joins Human Horizons as Senses Creative Chief at HiPhi's design center. The Chinese brand's first production car, HiPhi 1, will be released at the end of the [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | FERRARI GG50
CELEBRATORY STILING CUES “After fifty years and some hundreds of cars, just one was missing”, says Giorgetto Giugiaro to explain the GG50, the Ferrari he presented at the 2005 Tokyo Show and with [...]
“DESIGN BETWEEN THE LINES”, THE NEW PATrICK LE QUEMENT BOOK
Car Designer. It is a fine job title, but one difficult to explain to the general public. In the 66 years since I first earned it, I have found it almost impossible to [...]
ZEROUNDICI E−BIKE, STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
Designing and producing pedal-assisted bicycles with good design is the goal of Zeroundici, a two-wheeled startup founded in Turin by Mattia Bertone and part of I3P, the Innovative Business Incubator of the Politecnico [...]
VOLKSWAGEN e-BULLI, ELECTRIC REBIRTH
Volkswagen presents the e-Bulli, an electric vehicle based on the legendary T1 Samba Bus from 1966. The 44-horsepower four-cylinder boxer engine gave way to a quiet, zero-emission 61 kW engine. A comparison of [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | AUDI R8
AUDI R8, ELEGANT POWER Where do we start? With Walter de’ Silva’s definition as “a car that is neither arrogant nor vulgar, but which stands out for its elegance”? Or with the [...]