Opinion
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Register: More than just a new coat of paint - Alias 2024
Register to join us for this premier livestream, in partnership with Autodesk, where Alias Product Manager Phil Botley will be discusing the new Alias 2024 release.
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Motor City Blues for the Detroit auto show
Car Design News editor James McLachlan gives his take on the 2023 Detroit auto show, something he describes as a dispiriting experience but one that could be rejuvinated by design
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Watch: Car Design News in Review
Car Design News editor James McLachlan and assistant editor Freddie Holmes discuss the last 3 months in car design
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Why we need designers and creatives in a world of AI
Ex-Mazda designer Tom Matano tells Car Design News that designers should not feel threatened by artificial intelligence
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Watch: How will CMF shape an electric future?
Watch this premier livestream, in partnership with Ultrafabrics, where our panel will explore new ways to reshape the exterior and interior of cars.
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Opinion: Bring colour back to car interiors
Be it vibrant or muted, colour can inject personality and warmth into the car interior so let’s bring it back, says Jens Meiners
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Artificial intelligence and the car designer of the future
CDN’s Karl Smith asks if artificial intelligence is the existential threat to car design we think it is
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Watch: Adobe Substance 3D: Create, Iterate, and Visualize Car Design Concepts
Watch this webinar, in partnership with Adobe where they discuss how Adobe Substance 3D apps help transportation designers with their creative workflows and enhance collaboration with digital design reviews.
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New research explores car design working practices
A Konzepthaus report explores how car designers at various levels and locations are adapting to the new way of working
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Reading between the lines: how much meaning does car aesthetics really carry?
Aidan Walsh considers whether the syntax around car design carries the weight – and intended meaning – that it used to
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From Paris with love: a comment on French car design
Christopher Butt takes a look at the return of robustness in French car design, as illustrated by two new concept cars in the Dacia Manifesto and Citroën Oli
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Watch: Is the future of automotive design in software?
This CDN livestream featured speakers from Volvo, Bugatti Rimac, TomTom and The Qt Company. We discuss how automotive designers are using connected technologies in informing design decisions.
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Watch: What’s next for the sports car?
Watch this livestream where we explore the future of the sportscar through the lens of styling, technology, lighting, UX and sustainability
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Opinion: Peak button to peak screen
From peak button to peak screen (and everything in between), Wayne Batty takes a canter through the last 20 years of interiors
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To mark its 20th anniversary Interior Motives returns to print
Twenty years is a long time in design. Interior Motives editor James McLachlan looks back at what was happening in the world at the time and what has changed
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Book review: Vintage Works – a car designer’s sketchbook
Tim Pilsbury’s books have charmed us for years at CDN, from his instructive guides to automotive interiors to this series of sketch diaries, Pilsbury brings his perspective to bear on automotive classics as well as his personal favourites
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Watch: Back to the Future of Interiors
Watch this Car Design News livestream featuring General Motors, Group Lotus and Lawrence Technological University as they reflect on changing interiors over the last 20 years and as they look ahead to the next 20.
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What has happened to Audi design?
(Single)Framing the rise and decline of design kings, Audi. Design critic Wayne Batty is unconvinced by the Bauhaus aspirations of the German marque’s ’Sphere series
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Review: Motion – Autos, Art, Architecture
Curated by architect Norman Foster, Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture at the Guggenheim Bilbao is an visually stunning and elegiac tribute to the golden age of the automobile