NEXT GEN CORVETTE C8 DESIGN SUGGESTION ON THE WEB https://**********.com/2020/11/design-commentary-proposing-the-next-generation-corvette-like-2023.html
Image Unavailable, Please Login FRASCELLA PROMOTED LAND ROVER DESIGN DIRECTOR AS MCGOVERN LEADS JLR GROUP DESIGN Home/NEWS/FRASCELLA PROMOTED LAND ROVER DESIGN DIRECTOR AS MCGOVERN LEADS JLR GROUP DESIGN View Larger Image Image Unavailable, Please Login Massimo Frascella has been appointed Land Rover Design Director. His promotion is part of a design reorganization of the Jaguar Land Rover group that sees Gerry McGovern assuming the position of Chief Creative Officer for the British group. To McGovern, who had led Land Rover design until October, now report two brand design directors: Julian Thomson for Jaguar and Massimo Frascella for Land Rover. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login BMW iNEXT, THE DESIGN GALLERY Home/NEWS/BMW iNEXT, THE DESIGN GALLERY View Larger Image Image Unavailable, Please Login The BMW iNext will be unveiled on 11 November with a digital event and will arrive on the market in 2021. The electric SUV brings a new platform on which other zero-emission models, plug-in hybrids or combustion engines will be built. The car brings to debut a new multimedia system capable of supporting autonomous driving up to level 5. The iNext has been designed following a new stylistic direction made up of rounded volumes and absence of edges and characterised by a large front grille with vertical development. Waiting to see the production version, here is the BMW iNext design gallery. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Anybody see this.... I think the C8's main problem is the nose. And they don't have an excuse since the Euro engine protection rule is not required on a mid engine. I first realized how high it was when taking photos of the C8R at Road America. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I want to share my work with you. It was an old sketch, but I saw Frank Stephenson drawing an F40 remake and I updated the sketch. Hope you like my vision of this car. maybe an SP car? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is the C6R, C7R and C8R noses. Its the height of the front openings and the way the are so high up to the edge that are not as attractive as the earlier cars IMO. Maybe they will get rid of the ugly nose and those ugly side scoops on the C9 redesign. We are so used to horrid big grills and noses we are getting numb to the fact they are ugly. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
SM Redux........... https://www.designboom.com/technology/jean-louis-bui-electric-citroen-sm-revival-concept-11-06-2020/?utm_source=designboom+daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jean-louis+bui+combines+electric+power+%2B+70s+colors+for+citroën+SM+revival+concept Image Unavailable, Please Login
From cardesignnews.com DESIGNERS Car Design Review 7: Karim Habib, Kia 10 November 2020 Kia’s Karim Habibi explains how the brand is also being rethought in tandem with new design and technology I’ve been at Kia since October 2019 so I’m still discovering how the company works and getting to know the team. Kia has been doing very well, in sales and design. What Peter Schreyer and Luc Donckerwolke built up is strong so I arrived in a fortunate situation. I think the Telluride winning 2020’s World Car of the Year is a first for any Korean company so it shows Kia can build very good cars. The next step is building the brand and getting ready for the electric vehicle and autonomous era. For Kia, the strategic shift of the company has been made public and is quite aggressive in terms of EVs. Within the Hyundai Group, Kia will be leading in that sense. Image Unavailable, Please Login Kia Futuron EV concept Kia is smaller than the Hyundai brand and its character is a little more defined. At a pragmatic day-to-day design level, we have to make sure we don’t step on each other’s territory. Sometimes it’s easier than at other times, obviously, a lot of the engineering has similarities. But actually you’d be surprised at how many technical ways there are to differentiate. Maybe because Hyundai has a wider customer base – they sell about a million more cars a year than we do – they have to cover more bases. We can focus more. Of course, the Telluride [large SUV] in the US or the Rio [supermini] in Europe are very different characters, but we want to keep more of a family resemblance. I’ve never worked for a big manufacturer like Kia before. What really attracted me was its ambition. Kia’s an underdog brand but has incredible ‘means’, from its manufacturing, to its depth and incredible speed. Image Unavailable, Please Login Kia Soul EV The different Hyundai companies are extremely strong. Executive vice-chairman Eui-sun Chung is very progressive in his thinking and meeting him was super-motivating. He’s definitely empowering for design. But with freedom comes responsibility so it puts a strategic weight on design. That’s part of the interesting challenge. The brand is also being completely rethought which is pretty awesome to be doing at the same time as new design and technology. Basically all three are coming together. With every brand going towards EVs how do you still make that transition relevant and differentiate? That’s going to be tough but we want to do it technologically. Design-wise, we’ve talked about it before but there’s a huge opportunity to really redesign the interior space which we need to take advantage of. Even the way we design seats, I feel we need more innovation in how you sit and move around in the car. Jochen Paesen, recently appointed Kia interior design vice-president, brings knowledge from developing BMW’s i cars, which were really advanced when they launched. But also his experience at Nio is something I found very interesting because he helped build a brand there from scratch. The big difference with Kia compared to the premium brands I’ve worked with before is price. Kia is more for normal people. But there are a lot of brands in that market, so it requires design to have more of a ‘pull’ function. These customers might not have as much money as those who buy BMWs and Mercedes and so on, but they are still interested in technology and practicality. How do you provide something that just makes life simpler? Image Unavailable, Please Login 2019 Kia Imagine concept Outside of the car industry, I think Muji is a good example. It’s inclusive, affordable and for everyone, but still very well curated. The concept of the automobile has to become ultramodern otherwise I don’t think it will work. We will see after the current coronavirus crisis, how the whole situation changes. We’ve been questioning individual mobility for years. But after this, will it come back? As the question of health, hygiene and cleanliness – besides personal space – starts to be more important does that mean everybody will go back to their own cars? What kind of cars will we want? Ones that have a super-hard shell to protect us from an evil world, or smaller cars that are more respecting of the environment? At a working level, we are using more virtual reality (VR) instead of travelling so much. Software now allows us to walk round a design model in another studio on another continent. We need to do more of that and already do a lot of simple video conferencing and phone calls. We can talk to Tom Kearns (US studio) in the morning and Gregory Guillaume (Europe studio) in the evening and keep the loop going. I’ve visited the European studio in person but have not met the team in the US or China yet (run by Oleg Son). That’s something I’m missing. You can do a lot in VR, but getting to know the people face-to-face every once in a while remains very important. Image Unavailable, Please Login Kia Telluride crossover SUV I think the concept of working in studios and physically being there every day is going to change. It will be empowering for designers as we’ll be able to sketch from home but we’re going to have to build networks with firewalls and so on that are less dependent on the physical space you’re in. Maybe the silver lining could be more freedom for all professions. We’ll try to strengthen the global team with who we have and hire ambitious designers who want to do things a little differently. We’re a brand with a short history, so we don’t have these big cars people dreamt of in their childhood. That allows us to focus on creating a dream car in the future, not recreate or be inspired by one. It’s a big challenge, but also an opportunity.
Crowd fund $40,000, 5 judges, and hold the best modern F40 remake contest... it would be inspirational and historical to future car design.
Agreed. Frankly I don’t understand how this guy got to lead design organizations with those drawing skills. I mean, look at the video the F430 design development - his drawing looks NOTHING like a 430! https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/watch-frank-stephenson-explain-how-he-designed-the-ferrari-f430-ar188626.html Compare with Manzoni’s amazing watercolor sketch above.
I'm going to differ on this one. Full disclosure here, I believe the original DS is one of the 10 best automobile designs. Ever. Just received this book, and it reinforces my opinion IMO. So the renderings of the 'new' DS by Jean Louis Bui really grabbed my attention. Several of you are critical of the design renderings. It is a very difficult assignment to 're-do' a classic. History has shown that updates, retro, re-dos, homage etc. usually fall flat. However in this case, I happen to think the design looks great. For whatever it's worth, I think it's on the money. We can argue the details, but I think it's pretty cool. It looks like a Citroen. It looks French. It looks fresh and new. And just to be clear, I am NOT a fan of Retro Design. I believer the Ferrari Roma nailed it as well. Honoring one's past without pandering to it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Interesting and lengthy interview with Frank Stephenson. https://jalopnik.com/legendary-designer-frank-stephenson-says-modern-car-des-1845564783?fbclid=IwAR1BLePnglR6uGHINAfv24fvlxQgSPMzR0MjopkHLfrdKOFmDS1N7wuzt8U
I think new DS has some areas that are quite nice but other areas they just tried too hard. The nose seems to be cobbled together. I don't get the deep cut in the lower body side; maybe there is a real airflow purpose for it but it isn't apparent. The tail is really interesting but not feeling it is well integrated into the rest of the design. Maybe this needed some more time in the studio to gestate.
Yeah, the SM is the one that is off the mark. It's heavy and heavy handed. The SM is so elegant and light. The DS is much better.
