Ferrari World Design Contest Moves to Second Phase

Ferrari announced today that the selection process for the first part of the Ferrari World Design Contest has been concluded. The competition, which is a collaboration between the Prancing Horse and Autodesk, its technical partner, has been launched for 50 prestigious international design schools.

Seven finalist schools have been selected and now students from all parts of the world are ready to create the Ferrari of the future. The list of finalist includes: IED and IAAD from Turin (Italy), the London Royal College of Arts (UK), the European Design Institute Barcelona (Spain), Seoul's Hong-ik College (Korea), the DSK Supinfocom from Pune (India) and the College For Creative Studies in Detroit (USA).

The second part of the competition, which follows the part of the style research, will see finalists create three models that each school can present: in 3D Autodesk Alias and a physical model in a scale of 1:4.

“The contest's goal is to develop the Ferrari of the future, a pure hypercar, using technologies and materials of the latest generation. A supercar, extreme regarding its architecture and its functional aspects: hyper-light and hyper-fast, hyper-ecologic and hyper-technological. During this second stage, the students have to pay special attention to details and the interior's development, without leaving the car's functional aspects unconsidered,” a company statement explains.

The results of the second phase will be announced in July, with the winners set to receive an internship at Ferrari, as well as cash prizes. In addition to that, Autodesk will present an award to the student team the makes the best use of its Alias software.