Volvo Ocean Race Winner Trophy Design Competition Launched
3 Jun 2010, 08:17 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Agencies and designers now have the chance to battle each other in creating the new winner’s trophy prior to the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 debut next year in Alicante (Spain). The winner will r...
Volkswagen Plans Buying Italdesign Giugiaro
19 May 2010, 10:32 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Volkswagen is planning to buy a controlling stake in Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A., Italy’s largest design and engineering firm, according to two industry sources quoted by the Automotive News Eu...
Air Travel Gets a BMW Touch
23 Apr 2010, 07:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As many of you know, BMW’s first activities were strongly tied to the aviation industry, also hinted by the company logo that points to a white propeller on a blue sky (controversial, we know)...
GM Seoul Advanced Design Studio Open for Business
20 Apr 2010, 09:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Gm announced today the opening of the Seoul Advanced Design Studio in the capital of the Republic of Korea. The center will employ 30 designers which will take charge of exteri...
When the Turks Design a Car: Aston Martin Gauntlet
12 Apr 2010, 09:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Turkey, one of Europe's most productive automotive industries, is not particularly known as being the country of origin for many cars-to-remember. This, however, doesn't mean Turkey doesn...
Porsche Introduces New Boxster and Cayman Personalization Packs
24 Mar 2010, 19:42 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Porsche is spoiling European customers with a series of new personalization packages for the baby vehicles of the range, the Boxster roadster and the Cayman coupe. Customers who feel that they ne...
BMW F 800 R and S 1000 RR Get a red dot
22 Mar 2010, 13:45 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As one of the most important awards in the world for product design, the red dot is an award that most manufacturers would want. BMW Motorrad was one of the winners at this year’s edition, wit...
Kia Venga Gets Design Award
15 Mar 2010, 14:24 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Korean car manufacturer Kia has received the red dot design award for its new MPV, the Venga. The car has been picked as the winner of the "product design" category for the compact MPV...
MINI Kicks-Off Countryman Design Competition
12 Mar 2010, 07:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / {img1 aign=left}Celebrating the launch of the fourth model in the brand’s lineup, MINI has kicked-off an international design competition that invites creative people to design potential tools...
Lola IndyCar Concept - Details
16 Feb 2010, 10:44 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Lola has revealed their new pictures and specifications of the concept chassis they have submitted to the IndyCar Series for the 2012 season. After Dallara, Swift and DeltaWing, the Italian manufact...
Kia Presents Ray’s Interior Design Story
16 Feb 2010, 09:04 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Korean car manufacturer Kia decided to present the story behind the interior design of the Ray Plug-in Hybrid, a concept on which the company will build its first production hybrid later this year. ...
Volkswagen Corrado Reborn. Sort Of...
11 Feb 2010, 15:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not sure how many of you remember the 1990 Scirocco successor built by Volkswagen back in the mid 1990s, but the recent revival of the Scirocco line has made at least one designer remember it. Graph...
Bentley Announced Future Concepts Design Finalists
1 Feb 2010, 15:30 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Four of the eighteen Royal College of Art (RCA) students have been shortlisted to refine their designs together with Bentley’s team, including Head of Exterior Design Raul Pires who played a k...
Bavaria Yachtbau, BMW Designed Yachts Awarded
1 Feb 2010, 10:32 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / BMW Group DesignworksUSA and Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH, a leading yacht manufacturer in Europe, have been strongly repaid for their efforts in 2009, gaining several yacht industry design awards. There ...
The Fiat Uno Might Really Be Back
15 Jan 2010, 07:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Rumors about the Fiat Uno’s comeback to some emerging markets seem to be true, as we can see in the pictures posted by Novidades Automobiles, which have apparently been obtained from the Brazi...
2011 Michelin Design Competition Theme Announced
11 Jan 2010, 14:30 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A new design challenge is revving up, Michelin announced today at NAIAS. The 2011 Michelin Challenge Design (MCD) theme has been revealed, giving entrants a chance to share their transportation conc...
Audi Design Chief to Address Students in Detroit
7 Jan 2010, 11:39 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German carmaker Audi announced yesterday their Head of Design Stefan Sielaff will address students at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit on January 10, before the 2010 NAIAS event kic...
Hummer HB Concept: How a Romanian Hummer Would Look Like
29 Dec 2009, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the Hummer brand almost in Chinese hands, everybody is wondering how would the Asian ownership would influence the brand's products in terms of design and engineering. What no one is wonde...
New Design Directors Appointed at Peugeot and Citroen
21 Dec 2009, 14:12 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The PSA Peugeot Citroen Group announced today it has appointed two new design directors for both Peugeot and Citroen, effective January 4, 2010. Gilles Vidal and Thierry Metroz, the new design direc...
Donato Coco, Lotus' New Director of Design
16 Dec 2009, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Lotus Group announced yesterday the appointment of Donato Coco, former Director of Design and Development for Ferrari, as the company's new Director of Design. He will take full charge of L...