VW Group Design Boss Says Simple and Clean Design is The Future
25 Sep 2012, 07:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The design philosophy behind all recent products of the Volkswagen Group has been to keep things simple clean, opting not to ‘overdesign’ any of their offerings. The main advocate for th...
Former Nissan Designer Will Head SAIC European Design Center
21 Sep 2012, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) has just named former Nissan designer, Martin Uhlarik, as the head of its European design center, based in Longbridge, UK, at the old MG factory, now owned ...
Luc Donckerwolke Now in Charge of Bentley Design Division
13 Sep 2012, 12:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Belgian designer Luc Donckerwolke has been appointed as the new Director of Design, at Bentley, where he replaced Dirk van Braeckel who moved to a similar position for VW. Donckerwolke, 47, leaves h...
BMW Explains Its Light Design
7 Sep 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We can’t deny the fact that the light clusters of a car play a pretty important role in defining its identity and we’re here to give you the most recent example of this. The example c...
New Mercedes S-Classe Teased via Aesthetic S Sculpture
4 Sep 2012, 15:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We know that the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is ready to come to the world, since we’ve seen the vehicle in the finished form, but covered in a veil, in a past set of spyshots and we’ve re...
Nissan Aiming to Refine Design Identity, Next Micra to Be Cooler
23 Jul 2012, 09:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / When we met the new generation of the Nissan Micra, it was a bit difficult to focus on the features of the car highlighted by Nissan, such as efficiency, as the bland design kept getting in the way....
Henrik Fisker Tells You to Follow Your Dreams!
7 Jul 2012, 10:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / How many times have you given up on a dream just because people told you it couldn’t be done? Like use, and everybody else in the world, it definitely happened many times for each individual. ...
Opel Astra GTC Wins Red Dot Design Award
5 Jul 2012, 11:49 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Opel Astra is in a bit of a tight spot right now. Production of the next Generation will be moved from the home Opel factory in Germany to the UK and Poland in order to cut costs. We like the As...
Rolls Royce Appoints New Design Director: Giles Taylor
27 Jun 2012, 11:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Rolls Royce today announced that it has appointed a new design director, in the person of Giles Taylor, who will be grabbing the “RR” branded drawing board starting from July 2012. Th...
Peugeot Launches Design Lab
13 Jun 2012, 10:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In an effort to better capitalize on their design expertise and bring in new kinds of business other than the automotive, French carmaker Peugeot has opened up a new design center called Peugeot Des...
Car Design Peaked in the 1960s
2 Jun 2012, 19:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Have you actually taken a good look at modern cars? Manufacturers copy each other and all cars look the same - boring. Design and aesthetics are a subjective matter and should be treated as such. Ho...
Next Audi A4 to Look More Dynamic
31 May 2012, 13:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A little bit earlier we were talking about how BMW wants to turn the next Z4 into a car with more sporty driving assets and it’s now time to move to Audi, which also wants to transform its nex...
There May Still Be Hope for Detroit’s Youth in the Motor Industry
29 May 2012, 13:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Detroit was called the ‘Motor City’ for a reason, and it has become a metonymy for the US auto industry, in the same way Hollywood is a metonym for the US cinematography industry. How...
General Motor To Expand Korea Design Center
24 May 2012, 13:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, we were throughly impressed with the Chevrolet Miray Concept shown at the 2011 Seoul Motor Show. Its name came from the Korean word for ‘future’ and it represented a clear and...
2012 F30 BMW 3-Series Design Explained
21 Dec 2011, 14:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / BMW had the designers involved with the creation of he brand new 3-Series. Both Karim Habib, head of BMW exterior design, and Christopher Weil, 3 Series designer, explain in layman’s terms the...
Ford Finalising 2014 Mustang Design
16 Sep 2011, 13:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Ford Mustang looks stronger than ever and, since the 50th anniversary of the iconic pony car is approaching, we have to know what Ford is cooking. A new generation of the ‘Stang will ar...
2012 Toyota Yaris Design Details Explained
22 Jul 2011, 15:38 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As the third generation Yaris rolls of production lines at the Japanese manufacturer’s facilities, Toyota took the time off to tell us more details about the vehicle’s styling. Specifica...
Luxury Gas Station Designed in Italy
30 May 2011, 13:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The bad side of owning a luxury car is that you have to fuel it from the same pesky fuel pumps all the other lesser people are using. It's a nasty feeling, knowing that the nozzle that went int...
Audi Presents Trimaran Yacht
21 Apr 2011, 10:33 UTC · By: Cosmin Voicu / Along with designer Stephanie Behringer, German automaker Audi unveiled a futuristic yacht concept named Audi Trimaran Yacht. The amazing concept was designed as part of a graduate project from t...
GM Starts Design Competition for US Students
18 Apr 2011, 06:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Eight students in North America and five months of hard work... These two elements can be used to define the new design competition announced by American manufacturer GM at the end of last week. Set...