Design

As the auto industry starts to adopt LED lights in more mainstream vehicles, we’ll start to see cars featuring new and exciting headlight designs such as those seen on the Audi R8 and Aston Martin Rapide. Consumers will also benefit from features such as the compact size and weight, low cost...

Sabino is a relative newcomer to the automotive design world, but the Netherlands based company has already developed its first major showpiece that it hopes will gather public interest, and more importantly investment dollars. Labelled the B3, the aggressive looking coupe is a mix of both European...

Nissan and Marc Ecko have joined forces to release fully customized versions of the Japanese car maker’s Pathfinder and Armada SUVs. Revealed recently at New York's Splashlight Studios, the first of the two vehicles, the Pathfinder, follows the lines of ecko unltd.'s street-smart theme...

Selecting the next big thing in car paint schemes is a difficult task that companies like color specialist PPG Industries Inc spend a lot of time and money in researching. All areas of design are looked at including fashion, architecture, and consumer goods, as well as experimentation with new...

The creative work of Bangladeshi automotive artist Leepu Awila is more of a design study than anything practical, of most interest is the story of how the car actually came about. The RMX-1 was originally hand sketched on the fly after the designer was inspired by a trip to an aquarium of all...

Legendary automobile designer Nuccio Bertone, who completed designs for the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini and Alfa Romeo, has finally been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. A commemorative plate with his signature has been placed at the Detroit institute amongst other important auto...

A car that communicates with you isn’t that far away. We've already reported about Seat’s intelligent León concept that monitors you whilst you’re driving and can even block incoming calls to your mobile if it wants to. Now there’s talk of an in car system that can warn you...

BusinessWeek has an interview with one of the most controversial men in design today, Adrian van Hooydonk, who heads up BMW’s design divisions along with the infamous Chris Bangle. Despite Bangle’s notoriety for being the man behind BMW’s design revolution, van Hooydonk is just as...

We have been given a glimpse of the future of land transport with the news of the Superbus project. Unlike high-speed trains, the Superbus offers the benefits of travelling at speeds of up to 250km/h but with the flexibility of travelling on existing road networks. The creation of Dutch professor...

The current crop of Japanese cars offer good value for money and class leading reliability but are often plagued by boring and unimaginative design that pales in comparison to some of their European counterparts. Japanese design office Sivax may change all that if its Izana concept that was...

Japanese design house, Sivax, is planning to debut a new concept car labelled the Izana in the following week at the Paris Motor Show. Back in 2004 the company presented its Xstile concept (pictured below) at the same show and a Kira concept before that. This time round their new car adopts design...

The LA Auto Show Design Challenge is on again, this time getting designers to transform the future of driving into an environmental experience. The initial challenge comes from Mercedes Benz of North America with their Recy roadster entry, which combines spirited driving with an environmental...

PSA Peugeot Citroën has given its designers at its ADN (Automotive Network Design) studio in France the challenge of creating new innovative designs by dividing the designers into two competing teams, one for Peugeot and the other for Citroën. Each team will adopt the values and core...

McLaren Automotive in collaboration with students from the Istituto Europeo di Design School in Turin, Italy, has developed a “dream project” range of models depicting the supercars of tomorrow. A total 39 students participated to help produce several 1:4 scale sized models of...

Subaru’s risky gamble with the bold propeller face for its popular Impreza has failed to attract buyers. The heavily criticized model facelift has been slammed by both media and consumers alike and won’t make its way to the upcoming Liberty and Outback models, to be released in...

According to Swiss company Rijck, “Terrorism, crime, kidnapping and carjacking have become a part of daily life worldwide.” In that case, we had all better get an armoured vehicle, just to be safe. Rijck have created an extended version of the Bentley Continental Flying Spur that...

BMW has created a design concept to showcase the talents of the German automaker’s current crop of designers. The result is the Z29 concept which is closely related to the Z4 Coupe. Technologies implemented that will probably never make it to production include a lightweight carbon fiber...

Atari has picked the winner of a recent competition to design a car. The adjustable pod car designed by David Sichtermann's is to be included in the next version of the popular computer game series, Test Drive Unlimited. Most of the design buffs that entered were just regular gamers who have never...

Toyota’s cars have long been the white goods of the auto world, but the automaker's been working hard to change that image. BusinessWeek has done an interview with Tokuo Fukuichi, president of Toyota's European design center, discussing what the Japanese automaker need to do to compete with...

Here's a fantastic article that follows the process of developing a car concept from sketch to clay model. The designer is 23 year old Ross McSherry, who creates a 2+2 design for Alfa Romeo. The attention to detail is amazing, with this car being designed around a Maserati Quattroporte steel...