design critic | VW Golf IV versus Opel Astra III
today handelsblatt.com publishes a design critic about the similarities and differences of the latest models of the carmakers VW and Opel. the author Paolo Tumminelli comes to the conclusion that...
View Articleautomobile design & the tension between cost and consumer preferences
in a recent article in the süddeutsche zeitung lutz fügener, professor for transportation design/3D-design at the fachhochschule pforzheim discusses new trends in collaboration between automobile...
View ArticleDaewoo Lacetti | designers and automobile design
it’s really interesting to see all the automobile designers moving around and leaving their individual marks at brands which we would have never associated with popular names. for a recent press note...
View Articlechina automobile market | how to copy design and technology
today the german business magazine wirtschaftswoche reports about the recent trend in china to copy design and technology from german joint venture partners like VW or DaimlerChrysler. local JV...
View Articlethinking beyond the product | renault traffic design award
those of you interested in car design certainly remarked that automobile manufacturers have moved into several diversified business areas beside the automobile itself. in this context you might want to...
View Articleinnovation beyond car design
if you walk through an average shopping mall and watch the products offered it seems that the average consumer does not care too much about design for everyday products. however when it comes to...
View Articledesignercars vol. I | business week int.
it seems as if I’ve discovered a hot issue with my post of february, 9th. car design becomes an important issue not only for car manufacturers. the latest edition of business week both print and online...
View Articledesignercars vol. II | business week int.
yesterday’s post was about the general impact of design on the market positioning of car manufacturers. however business week’s cover story also includes two photo/text essays about recent car...
View Articletalking management basics | economies of …
as most of my (former ;-) design management students know I love to discuss the topic of “disruptive technologies”. disruptive technologies often occur when, in many cases, big, established companies...
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