IAAD scolarship for Master 2011/12 in cooperation with Car Body Design

 Hi guys,

check this out new opportunity to win a scolarship thanks to Design competition sponsored by Car Body Design and IAAD design school in Turin Italy. The winners will attend the next Master in Transportation Design at IAAD design school year 2011/12.

Deadline is 2 of September.

Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design in collaboration with Car Body Design is launching a design competition that gives participants the chance to win three scholarships for attending the Master of Science in Design – Majoring in Transportation Design, in collaboration with Giugiaro Design. (Source Carbodydesign.com)
To get all infos to participate click: IAAD Scolarship infos

Ferrari Design Contest: the winners!

Ferrari Eternita Concept 1st prize winner

The Ferrari World Design Contest has its winners:

Eternità Concept by Kim Cheong Ju  (in the photo) (Rep. of Korea), Ahn Dre (Rep. of Korea), Lee Sahngseok (Rep. of Korea) – Hongik University (Seoul)


Xezri by Samir Sadikhov (Azerbaigian) – IED (Turin)

Cavallo Bianco by Henry Cloke (UK), Qi Haitao (China) – Royal College of Arts (London)

To see all the design proposals and photos of the event click: Ferrari Design Contest pics!

IAAD Master in Transportation Design 2011-2012

The “Master of Science in Design – Majoring in Transportation Design” by IAAD (Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design – Torino (IAAD) will have a duration of one academic year, from October 2011 until August 2012, and is worth 60 credits ECTS – EABHES. It is targeted to graduates in Industrial Design and Automotive Engineering, students with a postgraduate diploma in Industrial and Transportation Design as well as professionals who have gained significant experience in the field of transportation.
The tuition fee is 9,000€; some total and partial scholarships will be available (details will follow soon).
The Master will be open to a maximum of 20 students, and each submission will be individually reviewed.
The deadline for application is September 2nd, 2011 and can be sent via e-mail to...click: Master IAAD all infos

SPD Master in Transportation Design in partnership with Volkswagen Group

 Dear friends,
I am happy to inform you about SPD design school in Milan Italy Master in Transportation Design with Volkswagen Group partnership offering this time tuition to most talented candidates.
Starting in October 2011 the Master program will be offered by VW Group to best candidates.

SPD and Volkswagen Group are pushing further with their educational partnership and for the next edition of the Master will make available tuition waivers to candidates with high potential. The selection is open to candidates holding a degree in transportation or car design, automotive engineering or equivalent and it is based on a motivational interview, on the evaluation of the portfolio and the submission of a conceptual project assignement. The election process will be conducted jointly by SPD and VW.

Walter De Silva VP Director VW Group and Antonello Fusetti SPD school director

To get all infos about rules and how to apply please click: SPD Master VW 2011/2012

IAAD Master project 2011-2012: VW Golf year 2020

This year Master project in Transportation Design at IAAD design school in Torino Italy is: The VW Golf  for year 2020.
IAAD school organized the project with Italdesign Giugiaro's cooperation.
For more info click: IAAD Master project
Via Carbodydesign.com and IAAD

IAAD Design school opens the 2010-2011 Academic Degree "Design Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Means".

Turin, Italy September 8th, 2010


The Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design (IAAD) of Torino, is pleased to officially open the new 2010-2011 academic year, starting, among others, the first Italian course of the 1st level Academic Degree "Design sustainable mobility and transportation means".
The new course, developed in collaboration with the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (ISIA) of Firenze, is equivalent to a bachelor's degree, that is a three-year course, enriching the educational offer of IAAD Department of "Transportation design", which boasts the opening of the first course of "Architecture of the Car-body" in Italy since 1978.

Speakers at the conference, the directors of design schools partners - Laura Milani for IAAD Torino and Stefano Bettega for ISIA Firenze - and representatives of local institutions that have contributed to the creation of the course and have made possible the start:

Guido Bolatto, General Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Torino
Tom Dealessandri, Vice Mayor of Torino,
Gabriella Serratrice, Head of Universities and Research Institutes of the Piemonte Region,
Umberto D'Ottavio, School buildings, Heritage, Education Councillor in the Province of Torino
Riccardo Rosi, Deputy Director of the Industrial Union of Turin.

The press conference will conclude with the intervention of Mauro Tedeschini, Journalist: "Sustainable Mobility Today, Challenges and Opportunities".
The course was created parallel to the evolution of the mobility system, means of transport and its environmental sustainability, which has taken over time, a major role in developing the economy and culture in our country. To maintain and enhance the international prestige of companies and Italian companies operating in this sector and to increase their ability to compete in a market characterized by ever-increasing globalization processes is essential to establish training programs of excellence able to be seen as centers for research and innovation.

The course is thus divided into educational activities whose purpose is to ensure the development of a teaching model and updated dynamically, based on experiments as a methodological tool. The goal is to train professionals capable of proposing innovative solutions and interpret the socio-cultural awareness and economic market. The centerpiece of the new course, the study of systems and solutions to improve mobility in contemporary society, with particular attention to environmental sustainability.

There will be a limited number of students admitted (30 per each first year), in order to guide the training to practical experiences in designing and providing a highly specialized training. The many forms of collaboration with companies and research centers provide refresher and specialization training content and foster the integration of graduates into employment.

For more info click: Design Sustainable Mobility and Transportation means info

MCE Summer Workshop

Design studio Motorcity Europe (MCE) has announced tha launch of new design workshops that will take place in Cologne, Germany, on August and September 2010. The two- and five-days courses are available in both intermediate and advanced level.

This is a good opportunity to learn fast some basics about car design sketching, modeling and Alias modeling.

Check out full article it is really interesting!

India: Dilip Chhabria opens new Transportation Design school.

Car designer Dilip Chhabria from India opens up a new Transportation Design School. The objective is to form young talents from India and abroad to become car designers with an excellent program. Dilip Chhabria is from India and graduated in Transportation Design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA, he owns a Design & prototyping firm and matured a big experience in domaine of car design and custom design cars, his company also cooperates with important automotive design studios from foreign countries.

To have all important info about this new up coming design school click: DYPDC

Chris Bangle workshop at SPD Milan design school

After the success of last year's summer course Scuola Politecnica di Design
organizes from July 9th to July 15th another workshop with Chris Bangle.
This year the theme of the workshop is “An Endeavor in Discontinuity: Exterior Car Design of the Future”

This will be a unique design experience and it will allow participants from all
over the world to project and work in close contact with one of the most
innovative designers of the current scene.
Beside the workshop there will be the possibility to visit exhibitions and
design show-rooms to make the stay in Milan even more exciting.

Participation to the workshop is open to candidates who have a degree from schools / universities
of design, professionals with significant experience and skills in car design and companies.
All those interested in taking part to the selection have to send their CV and portfolio by e-mail to: info@scuoladesign.com

You can find all the information and the briefing of Chris Bangle in: http://www.scuoladesign.com/pages/summer-school-2010/?lang=en

In addition to this, other two design workshops will be organized. One will be held by Patricia Urquiola and the other by Marti Guixé.

Courtesy: SPD 

Umea Institute of Design, Chris Bangle guest speaker

The theme for this year’s UID Design Talks is change. Change is essential and vital in everything we do. To succeed in changing something, for instance oneself, the world, our way of thinking or a situation, first we need a vision.

Here at UID the students have visions for the future travelling, for changing the way you listen to music, for new ways of communicating over the Internet, for cars competing with transatlantic flights, for different ways of playing games, for compelling ways to get people to think about the environment and for new devices to detect breast cancer, to mention a few.

What about your vision? Do you want to take part in the change?

We invite you to participate, to meet and listen to a memorable keynote speech from designer Chris Bangle and to follow passionate presentations from our graduating students. During two days you will be able to see innovating designs and hopefully share with us your own view on change. Welcome!

For more info click UID

IAAD "Sustainable Design Workshop", Turin Italy - Luciano Bove participation

In this video The IAAD Design school Workshop guests work in progress. As you know I partecipated introducing the subject "the electric car scenario".

Domus Academy competition: Design a car unlike a car

                      

A beautiful car by itself is powerless. Its’ value and significance comes from intelligent scenarios and context of use which builds the balance between materials and technology that leads into innovative and successful solutions.


The main philosophy of Master in Car Design in Domus Academy is not only based on beauty and restyling, but on interdisciplinary topics that surround car design 360 degrees: exterior, interior, brand values, car vision & clay modeling techniques, design language on brand accessories, sales & after sales factors.

The aim of focusing on these topics is awakening the consciousness of the masters candidates about the collateral factors that directly shape & define the real necessities of the consumers and their expectations from the car industry via the designers.
The competition is open to any designer (professional or student) who is interested to gain a new vision & set mind in the Car Design field through DA Master in Car Design Program for challenging the future automobile trends.

For more info click the Source Domus Academy

IAAD "Sustainable Design Workshop", Turin Italy

Today I had the pleasure to participate as guest at the IAAD's "Sustainable Design Workshop" in Turin italy. In this video an explanation of the workshop with videos and images of different projects done at school. In this video you will find also a part or Renault project with my support.

Art Center College of Design Pasadena US

Kurt Andersen visits with car designers at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Video by Tommy Tropodes. Edited by Matt Cavnar. For Studio 360.

This a good video to give an idea about one of the best transportation design schools in US.

Advanced Automotive Design Conference TUDelft

The Advanced Automotive Design Conference is underway in Delft University Holland. Speakers are ex students of that university became important car design managers today and they are:
Adrian Van Hooydonk (BMW), Lowie Vermeersch (Pininfarina), Fedde TalsmaWouter Kets (Audi), Sarkis Benliyan (Mercedes), Ramon Ginah (Alfa Romeo), Doeke de Walle (Pininfarina), Bart van Lotringen (DAF), Bart Janssen Groesbeek (Ducati).

To watch the conference video click video conference link

Source: Carbodydesign, Virtualcar

Online design courses

Hi friends,

Surfing on the net I have seen quite a lot of Web Design Degrees offers and I was a bit curious so I started searching on the net and I found on line courses about: Web Site Design Schools, on-line Interior Design Schools, Graphic Design Program, online Fashion Design Schools, Online Art School, on-line Animation Schools...at so on I even found a web site about Car Design Program on-line.

It is true, today thanks to internet and some money to invest we can offer ourself a Design course basically in any discipline staying at home connecting ourself with our PC.
Is it going to be good?

Please continue reading clicking On line Design courses

Chris Bangle's workshop: “Future Personal Emotional Mobility”

Scuola Politecnica di Design organizes from September 18th to September 24th one workshop with Chris Bangle.The theme of the workshop is “Future Personal Emotional Mobility”.

After the success of last year's summer courses Scuola Politecnica di Design organizes from September 18th to September 24th one workshop with Chris Bangle.The theme of the workshop is “Future Personal Emotional Mobility”This will be a unique design experience and it will allow participants from allover the world to project and work in strict contact with one of the mostinnovative designers of the current scene.Beside the workshop there will be the possibility to visit exhibitions anddesign show-rooms to make the stay in Milan even more exciting.Participation to the workshop is open to candidates who have a degree from schools / universities of design or professionals with significant experience and skills in car design.

All those interested in taking part to the selection have to send their CV and portfolio by e-mail to: info@scuoladesign.com

You can find all the information on the link below: http://www.scuoladesign.com/Site/summer/index_eng.php

Chris Bangle's breafing:


Personal Emotional Mobility of the Future
The Paradigm after the Next Car

Personal Mobility denotes a broad range of "vehicle" capabilities that enrich the lives of people everywhere. However, in the future, it is important that designers further grasp our emotional engagement with them.
If sustainable-shared transportation systems for private or public use are to gain wider acceptance, they must be approachable, usable, and enjoyable. The business model for the future of Personal Mobility will depend on the desirability of these products, not merely their ubiquity. And desirability encompasses strong emotional components.

Our future timeframe is ca. 2050, a world in which some demographic characteristics and context are significantly different. Cities currently under pressure to find local solutions to transportation problems will be highly stressed in 2050 if nothing changes. Yet, huge zones of scarcely populated areas in the world must still be supported with affordable mobility. In addition, there will be a greater percentage of aged citizenry, inhomogeneous gender distribution, cultural enfranchisement, and the immediacy of climate, energy and resource issues. All such points will be a part of the designers’ brief in the future and the basis of our challenge today.

There will be many stakeholders in the "ecosystem" of Future Personal Emotional Mobility. The better their agendas are met the more likely the system will prove successful. Governments want control and a healthy source of revenue. Citizens want equality and freedom. Consumers want the best price-performance ratio. Industries want profitable business models that protect their complex investments and intellectual capital. Workers want assured occupation. Obviously, everyone wants a positive climate of economic growth with a fair distribution of wealth. World-over mobility systems are expected to have a minimum negative environmental impact on our planet, while promoting the best use of its resources. And we might all have a bit of fun as well!


In the search for the emotional approach to the components of such a complex system we are able to explore the contribution design makes to our lives. Students are given experience in challenging our settled notions and dogmas in regards to this issue.

The first task students are assigned is the creation of a semantic model of their Personal Emotional Mobility System as a pyramid; starting at the top with a basic and fundamental goal they wish to achieve, filling the successive layers below with ever more detailed descriptions of what such goal entails. The granularity should increase as the pyramid base gets wider; however, all relative ideas and concepts must be contained in the more succinct descriptions of the layers above.

In the next phase, sketches or storyboards of what these worlds could look like, or examples taken from the world of today supportive of argument plausibility will replace the semantic content.

Maintaining a holism of the ideas is important, and we will be presenting our work in mid-process reviews to ensure that the "Top Down" logic remains intact.

The purpose of this pyramidal logic structure is to promote a wider understanding of the inter-relationships of our ideas at both a higher and lower meta-level of description. The students will be tasked with evaluating a scenario in which their lowest meta-level ideas belong to other pyramids of intention, which may even include pyramids of students. Furthermore, they are to observe the implications that insight allows in supporting designs.

The final task involves creating a proposal for the implied design "brief", which can be extracted from one portion of the pyramid base, while accompanying designs of the effects this concept would have were it contained in another pyramid of intent.

Our discussions and critique will focus on the depth of understanding the student expresses in finding the role that emotional content plays in their construct. Particular attention will be placed on the enhancement of design plausibility in the future context. The role that the student’s artwork plays will be evaluated on how well it supports this communication.

AFAD Bratislava final presentation

Hi friends,
here all the info to go visit AFAD University in Bratislava and check out the final presentation of Transportation Design Dept.

Don't miss it!

Image courtesy of Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava

Argus 8th Design Competition

French magazine L’argus de l’automobile has launched its 8th European Design Competition, open to students attending design colleges within the European Union and Switzerland (automotive and industrial design, fine arts, architecture…).

This edition's brief is "Less is more: travelling in the era of simplicity".

Participants can submit their project from 1st June to 11 December 2009.

Prizes

The winner will receive a sum of 3,000 €, as well as an internship within the style department of French car manufacturer Citroën.

Info here:

To get all the necessary info click Carbodydesign and or Trophée de L'argus 2009

Design student organization

Hi friends,

we are close to june and july months dedicated to final presentations, exams and portfolio's reviews. many of you are tired phisically and in the head, you still have to complete your renderings, final drawings, finish models, prepare final presentation area. For those that are ready to get a diploma there is also the final portfolio to preparein order to be ready for job or internships interviews.
Its quite a lot of stuff all together in such short time, isn't it? To continue reading this post click on Design student organization Thanks.