The prizes for the third edition of the Young Italian Styling design competition promoted by the Anfia Coachbuilders Group were handed out on the premises of Turin's Biscaretti di Ruffia Motor Museum, a setting worthy [...]
Torino, Parigi, Stoccolma. Su questi tre punti si snoda un percorso ideale tra scuole di design da sud a nord del vecchio continente, e Auto & Design lo compie nel numero 129 occupandosi dei progetti [...]
New Edge, Knife Edge, tear-drop, streamlined, Modernist, forward cabin... all terms applied to car design over the past fifty years. A period in which nationality, be it Italian, British, French, American or German, has become [...]
The United States auto industry was given a wake up call by the arrival of Volkswagen's New Beetle. The standard religion in the US has been that small cars do not sell. Their market share [...]
The two-year Transportation Design course of the Escuela Superior de Diseño Industrial in Valencia (Spain), completed in January 1997 and directed by José L. Ferrer, has produced twelve new concept cars. Each project was developed, [...]
One of the rewards of participating in design education is to follow the progress of your students when they start their careers in industry or with design consultancies. I have been active in design education [...]
The big news at this year's Frankfurt show was the launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class. Which was also big news at Coventry University's School of Art and Design, as we discovered when we spoke to [...]
Issy-les-Moulineaux is one of the bustling towns of the Paris region. Its Corsican mayor has knowingly attracted numerous media groups to his community, as well as two institutions of the design world: the ever news-worthy [...]
Creativity and substance. Two words that sum up the didactic orientation of Tokyo Communication Arts (TCA), the Japanese school of industrial design where theory and bookwork are flanked by placements and practical learning sessions. [...]
What’s an Alfa Romeo? “A car that competes in the DTM!” replied the youthful students of the Espace Sbarro school at the start of their design and engineering course. Now that a year has passed [...]