A Look At Lexus' Clever Commercials and Design Orientation
28 Feb 2014, 19:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Lexus CT 200h is currently the last model in the luxury automaker’s lineup to receive the new-age spindle design front grille. It happened this year and along with the refresh, the CT also...
Hold On, Toyota Will Come With More Crazy Designs
26 Feb 2014, 17:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota is on the way to redeem itself from the bland automaker making reliable fridges on wheels and one of its strategies is coming up with striking designs. After all, that’s what most buyer...
Toyota Design Chief Tokuo Fukuichi Named Lexus President
26 Feb 2014, 17:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since we talked about Toyota’s future design today, you should know that the man behind some of the automaker’s best designs is Tokuo Fukuichi, lead designer for Toyota, Lexus and Scion....
A Trip on Acid - Toyota Dream Car Art Contest Wining Entries
26 Feb 2014, 13:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / I was a hardcore vehicle doodler in my childhood, finding the opportunity to draw some screwed-up design anytime I was seeing a piece of paper and a pen laying around. Looking at my little “pi...
Mercedes-Benz Design Creates Surfboards For Garrett McNamara
25 Feb 2014, 14:43 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Surfboards were probably among the last pieces of tech that anyone would expect to be at some point in the future designed by Mercedes-Benz, but that has just recently happened. In the last few m...
Toyota Yaris Hybrid Goes Flowery for Paris Fashion Week
24 Feb 2014, 17:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, if you thought the new Toyota models are starting to finally look good, girls might have another opinion and the automaker already came with a solution for them. Toyota teamed up with some ...
Suzuki Has a Cute Miniature Toyota FJ Cruiser
24 Feb 2014, 13:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ain’t that cute? But it’s wrong! Come on Suzuki, can’t you come with your own design? You can’t just copy a design style of a competitor’s car just because it’s g...
Lexus To Open New Intersect Store in New York
14 Feb 2014, 17:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus wants to attract more customers to its newly-redesigned brand which now concentrates more on art, feelings and design. And one of this project’s extension is represented by the Intersect...
Lexus LFA Gets Artistic Display
12 Feb 2014, 17:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We all know that Lexus likes to promote the brand’s style in artistic ways, so being part of the Media Ambition Tokyo 2014 event was absolutely a must. The event features 18 artworks by six...
Mercedes-Benz Explains The C-Class W205 Design
5 Feb 2014, 12:42 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Compared to the W204 generation, the all-new Mercedes-Benz C-Class W205 represents not a small step but a downright giant step in terms of the design and quality of the interior, but its exterior sh...
James Fox Named Leading Winner in 2014 Lexus Design Award
3 Feb 2014, 13:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Young British designer James Fox has won through from more than 1,100 entries to take one of the top two finalists in the 2014 Lexus Design Award. The success will materialize through a trophy, c...
BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe Explained by Its Designers
2 Feb 2014, 13:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s not easy to explain taking 2 doors off a model, transforming it into something new, then putting the 2 doors back and calling it a completely different thing. BMW knows it and knows...
The Story Behind Lexus’ Spindle Grille
3 Feb 2014, 19:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus came on the market with this so-called "spindle design" grille that shook the world in both ways. Some were outraged, while others just bought the cars
Lexus Announces the Winners of the 2014 Lexus Design Award
30 Jan 2014, 10:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus has just announced the selection of 12 winners for the second Lexus Design Award. Their projects will be displayed at Circolo Filologico Milanese during the Milan Design Week. Over 1,000 su...
Lexus Hosting Big Art Exhibition in Belgium
24 Jan 2014, 13:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you fancy new age design, then you must go visit Lexus’ exhibition this April in Brussels, which will reunite the work of three world-renowned designers. And seeing what kind of shapes the ...
2015 Mercedes-Benz GLK X205 to Look Much Sleeker
21 Jan 2014, 18:20 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / In a perfect example of “Captain Obvious strikes again”, the journos from Autocar report that the upcoming second generation of the Mercedes-Benz GLK will have a much sleeker look, featu...
MINIs Should Be Designed by the British, Boss Says
17 Jan 2014, 12:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / In a recent interview for Autocar at the 2014 Detroit Motor Show, MINI Brand boss and BMW Board Member, Peter Schwarzenbauer said he believes that all MINIs should be designed in the UK. At the m...
Behind the Scenes: Toyota Releases FT-1 Designing Steps
14 Jan 2014, 18:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Along with the official unveiling of its FT-1 concept at the 2014 North American International Auto Show, Toyota released a few videos presenting the details of its newest child. Among them, we f...
Chrysler Talks All-New 200 Design
14 Jan 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Back when we saw the very first photos of the 2015 Chrysler 200 sedan, we said to ourselves that the Pentastar had finally managed to create a vehicle that's able to drag the company away from ...
Toyota’s Calty Design Research Celebrating Its 40th Year
13 Jan 2014, 19:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Beginning as a bold experiment on October 2nd, 1973 in El Segundo, Toyota’s Calty Design Research was the first design center established in North America by a Japanese automaker. At that t...