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Watch: Dacia’s David Durand on winning the Concept Car Design of the Year | Articles

David Durand: Well, I’m super honored to win this concept card prize. In fact, we were surprised to see how many people appreciated the freshness of this concept. And probably it was not an object that people were expecting from Dacia – it was a bit surprising for the car designer professionals. In fact, we built this concept to communicate the evolution of our brand values, illustrating it in the design way instead of just talking about it.

We are not going anywhere near luxury or something, but trying to make the brands even more desirable and showing that design is not more expensive. It takes a bit longer, it’s a bit more complicated, but it’s possible to make a good design and keep it at an affordable price.

Getting this recognition from all those well-known car designers is truly an honor for me. I’m very proud.

Car Design News: The word radical gets used quite a lot, but it is really a radical form. There’s minimal screens, there’s cork in there, there’s canvas. It feels really rugged. I’m just very curious as to when you presented this to the higher ups at Dacia, did they immediately believe in

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Car Design round-up: Dacia, Audi, BMW, Jeep, ZF

Model refreshes, familiar trim levels and new progress on the passenger safety front. Here are some of the stories you might have missed over the past week or so.

Manifesto part deux

The Dacia Sandrider is more than a concept and will hit the sand dunes of the Dakar rally in 2025. As with the Manifesto from which it is based, functionality was central to the design and the team’s entry into the race itself was part of an exploration into Dacia’s ”essentialism” mindset. For example, there are no decorative panels and everything you see is the bare necessity; the paint used on the dashboard is antireflective, and a magnetic plate can be used to prevent bolts and tools from being lost in the sand.

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Audi Q7 refreshed

The Q7 and SQ7 have been given a refresh with a sharper overall look created by narrow DRLs, a new octagonal grille design and intricate multi-spoke wheels. Audi describes the look as “unmistakable” and more modern than before.

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Meet your Match

Volkswagen is bringing back the match trim to its portfolio. Extras vary between ICE and EV models but generally include bigger wheels, metallic paint, tinted

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Having sustainability as a core mission, Noelle Roth and Kinley Winnaman design eco-friendly wine packaging lowering dramatically carbon emissions without sacrificing design elegance

Los Angeles, California, USA

Founded on a mission to create eco-friendly wines with uncompromising quality and design, Noelle Roth Studio and Kinley Danger’s Juliet Eco-Magnum packaging disrupts the boxed wine category with their recyclable packaging, made from renewable materials.

Juliet’s Eco-Magnum has set the new standard for high-quality, recyclable containers as it is composed of a 100% recyclable paperboard outer.

Juliet Eco-Magnum

For all the above reasons, the project has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Juliet Eco-Magnum produces 84% ​​lower carbon emissions than traditional glass wine bottles.

Juliet Eco-Magnum

Each Eco-Magnum packaging contains 10 glasses of delicious wine which stays fresh for four weeks after opening. As the leading luxury glass-free wine, you can enjoy Juliet just about anywhere.

Juliet has a free recycling program if plastics are not accepted by the local recycling program to ensure the inner plastic pouches are properly recycled.

Juliet Eco-Magnum

Project: Juliet Eco-Magnum
Designers: Noelle Roth Studio and Kinley Danger
Lead Designers: Noelle Roth and Kinley Winnaman
Manufacturer: Paper Tube Co.

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So Koizumi’s debut collection of wooden furniture resembles fossils from our future

Tokyo, Japan

Fossilized Future is a collection designed by SO KOIZUMI DESIGN and will be presented in Milan Design Week 2014.

The collection resembles fossilized wood and was born from So Koizumi’s imagining of the form of contemporary resources in the future.

Fossilized Future by SO KOIZUMI DESIGN

As the resources of today fossilize into the future, the designer through his work raises the question of “how the current society will be perceived in the future, and how today’s human creations will have an impact on the future.”

Thus, the Fossilized Future works as a perspective of a future where this furniture will be discovered as fossils, it offers a new viewpoint.

Fossilized Future by SO KOIZUMI DESIGN

The collection is made from materials, such as wood from nearby forests that fell due to oak wilt disease and soil-like materials found in the surrounding area.

These materials include not only minerals and charcoal that are components of the soil, but also natural materials discarded daily such as rice husks, leftover coffee grounds, and vegetable peels, which serve as traces of everyday life.

Fossilized Future by SO KOIZUMI DESIGN

So Koizumi developed and experimented with these materials in order to create a unique new material that could be considered as the ‘contemporary soil.’

The large blocks are created using

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Stefan Bishop celebrates the archetypal themes found in nature creating a floor lamp in collaboration with Ralph Pucci that blends art and design

New York, New York, USA

The Outward floor lamp is one of the seven new works that Stefan Bishop has created for his Outward show to extend his Zoetic sculpture and furniture series.

The new pieces have been formed in Plasterglass to push beyond the possibilities of the wood used in the early Zoetic pieces.

Outward Floor Lamp by Stefan Bishop and Ralph Pucci

Outward floor lamp has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Bishop created Outward from start to finish in the Ralph Pucci sculpture studio and factory in Manhattan.

Outward Floor Lamp by Stefan Bishop and Ralph Pucci

The pieces continue the theme of freedom of expression while maintaining a recognizable quality to tie the pieces into the wider series, with a classically Pucci-esque quality and attention to detail.

Stefan Bishop says: “This is my first collaboration outside of my own hands, which is a beautiful complement, a weight lifted, combined with a note of success that these are still recognizably Bishops. Working in Plasterglass pushed me further into 3D which is how all of these designs started and represented a lot of freedom, forms that wouldn’t be quite possible in wood.”

Outward Floor Lamp by Stefan Bishop and Ralph Pucci

Stefan Bishop’s aesthetic

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A Basket Full of Surprises for the 2024 Jeep Easter Safari

Jeep’s annual Easter Safari drive to Moab, Utah is always a treat that provides Easter egg-colored concept vehicles to excite off-road enthusiasts.

The 2024 crop includes four new custom creations, each with its own theme and features and built using parts from Jeep Performance Parts by Mopar.

“Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, is the perfect venue for new Jeep concepts, with more than 20,000 Jeep enthusiasts gathering each year to celebrate the most iconic 4×4 brand in the world,” said Bill Peffer, senior vice president and head of Jeep North American brands. “From 4xe electrification to unmatched 392 power, this year’s Jeep 4×4 concepts illustrates how the most capable Wrangler ever appeals to such a wide range of people.”

The customized vehicles include a pair of Wranglers, a Gladiator pickup, and a Wagoneer family hauler. These machines employ a variety of powertrains to demonstrate the flexibility possible for Jeep owners.

The Jeep Wrangler Low Down concept features the 392 V-8 engine. The Jeep Wrangler 4xe Willys Dispatcher concept employs the 4xe plug-in hybrid drivetrain. The Jeep Gladiator-based High Top concept is powered by the familiar 3.6-liter Pentastar V6, while the Jeep Grand Wagoneer-based Vacationeer concept uses the new

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Car design round-up: CES in-brief | Articles

Software-driven solutions, connectivity, AI and in-car content were big topics this year at the massive annual tech convention in Las Vegas. While many OEMs aren’t splashing out on massive stands and new debuts as they once did, the show is still a critical glimpse into the future for consumers and designers alike, especially on the supplier front. Here is a quick round-up of what we’ve seen on the show floor.

Mercedes-Benz announced its new AI-powered Virtual Assistant, which will run on the company’s upcoming, in-house-built MB.OS architecture. The company also debuted its “Sound Drive” feature, created by musical artist will.i.am, with additional layers of audio that respond to driver inputs such as throttle, brake and steering.

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BMW demonstrated a remote parking feature as well as its 9.0 operating system with an updated version of its voice assistant that uses Amazon’s Alexa Large Language Model, along with a new video app, that will allow for live TV and on-demand streaming.

Volkswagen also showed off a new version of its voice-activated digital assistant, which uses Chat GPT for enhanced functionality and more natural language recognition.

2024 Volkswagen GTI CES

Honda showed its “Honda 0 Series,” built on a new EV platform with

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Interior Motives: Tata Avinya | Articles

By James McLachlan2023-11-14T09:34:00

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Taking its cues from catamaran design with a dollop of high-modernism, the Tata Avinya marks a sea-change for the Indian brand

There are concept cars that are one stage removed from production, a kind of dress rehearsal for the opening night. Then there are the concepts that, in one grand gesture, seek to reinvent the brand. The Tata Avinya, unveiled in April 2022 at a special event in India, falls unreservedly into the latter. The Indian OEM, known for its useful range of SUVs and crossovers aimed at the domestic market, has, at the worst of management, ripped up the rule book with this EV concept. The Avinya is based on a new GEN 3 platform and signals the brand’s first real stab at the global premium market. The speed at which the design team moved – from start to finish in nine months – belied the ambitions of the project.

“It was quite a straightforward brief,” recalls Martin Uhlarik, VP of global design at Tata. “It should be an expression of our company values: improving quality of life, having a higher calling, focusing on human-centric design… but it had to be a global product.” Armed

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Cargo Ships Are Feats of Engineering

As investigators continue to piece together the reasons why the massive DALI cargo ship lost power before colliding with the Key Bridge in Baltimore earlier this week and causing the bridge to collapse, there may be those who cite poor design of the ship’s various components, namely its propulsion system. While a propulsion system failure so far looms as a likely cause, one must remember that cargo ships are not merely barges that happen to carry hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo.

As this video titled The Crazy Amount of Power Needed to Move World’s Largest Container Ships on the YouTube channel Fluctus showing, building and powering a large container ship is no trivial task. The video, showing the construction of the huge MSC Tessa cargo ship, details the many steps involved with fabricating and assembling the ship’s massive engine. Once assembled, the engine must undergo extensive testing to ensure meeting stringent emissions and safety standards. These ships can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build.

In addition, the video describes the intricate tasks of servicing and replacing a ship’s propulsion system. Citing the example of a fire aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy in 2020, the

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