“When I started as Renault style director in 1987, the activities of the centre were jokingly divided into exterior design and inferior design. Many things have changed since then”. This anecdote came from Patrick Le [...]
This is not just a pre-packaged theme but a problem to be solved: think of a future mobility need, then develop an answer. With this highly conceptual approach, unrestrained by limitations, Renault asked the students [...]
Project the Audi Avant concept forward to 2015, developing new forms and aesthetics for it. That was the challenge Walter de’ Silva (Design Director Audi Brand Group) proposed last October to twenty students of the [...]
It was one of the most admired concept cars at the Geneva Show, with its iridescent orange colour pointing up attractive curves and a dynamic profile but, in spite of the Fiat trademark, it was [...]
We all interact with technology dozens of times a day in our ordinary lives. We get money out of a hole in the wall; call a friend on our mobile phones; tap out a note [...]
A collection of bright new ideas, some of them strictly for fun. They emerged from the thesis projects that conclude the master’s course in Transportation Design every year at Sweden’s world renowned Umea Institute of [...]
Since this issue follows the end of the academic year, Auto & Design thought it appropriate to devote considerable space to the car design schools and to the new young professionals, who come out of [...]
A design school that lives in close contact with one of today's most dynamic cities, Barcelona, takes on a theme deeply rooted in the urban reality of the Catalan capital. The project produced for the [...]
The contrast between past and present was clear, as you walked along the corridors of the wing in the Biscaretti di Ruffia Motor Museum that had been set aside for a display of graduation thesis [...]
In just two years, the Canadian International Auto Show design contest has become one of the world's most interesting events of its kind. Canada, a huge country with an unfairly low profile, has only had [...]