Sommaire pour No. 212 de AUTO & DESIGN

In content and mood, and as a glimpse of emerging trends, the Furniture Show (together with Euroluce and the Office Furniture Show) is effectively the start of the Milan Expo year. Some content was anticipated by the two extensive exhibitions Arts&Foods, Rituali dal 1851 and Cucine e ultracorpi, which occupied the Triennale di Milano entirely (up to November and February respectively) and reflected the perspective of art and design on food and its related rituals, around the general theme of the universal expo “Feed the Planet”. Similarly, the large influx of visitors – and, most importantly, professionals – to the expo, over 60% of which from abroad, is encouraging for the visibility and prospects of Italian companies beset by a lengthy recession, which has been faced and survived with…

Two spectacularly recognisable beads of light embellishing a Led front: that’s how, in the mid-2000s, Ingolstadt presented its new lighting graphics to the world. A process that marked a new way of transferring family feeling from grille and panels to lighting. This was 2006 and the first Audi to inaugurate a lighting signature was the A6 Avant. Today, when the morphology of daytime lighting is being looked at by all manufacturers, the Germans are aiming to strengthen their leadership with a state-of-the-art Lighting Assistance Centre: 15 professionals and 120 metres of matt-black tunnel, the longest stretch of road in Europe for studying the lighting of the future. There are multiple avenues to explore and, as Wolfgang Huhn, Head of Development Light/Visibility, explains, they involve design in the broadest sense: it…

New light sources mean new forms for lighting design. This is the fundamental imperative that has driven research in recent years, as increasingly leading edge Leds and Oleds have to a great extent replaced traditional technologies. It goes without saying that the traditional, in terms of lighting, has been rewritten in the renewal of lampstands, chandeliers and desk lights. So we have “immaterial lights” for lamps with flat surface diffusers which are quite inconspicuous in a room and only reveal their function when lit: like the Discovery family by Artemide, which uses Led strips arranged radially on a round aluminium profile, injecting light on to the plastic surface that is barely perceptible when extinguished. In designer Jasper Morrison’s Flos proposal, the same principle of diffused light on a flat surface…

Lights are changing shape and, in their turn, shapes are changing to cater for increasingly evolved, technological lights. All this has a number of implications for cars, starting with brand identity: if originally this task was the responsibility of the grille – the grander, more historic and important, the more prestigious the brand – it is lights that have taken over the leading role at the front. Both the front and rear lights are now “projects within the project”, with design teams dedicated exclusively to their formal definition. In this issue we explore today’s scenarios with a look to the future and the possibilities offered, among other things, by Organic Leds (Oleds) that we have also come across in a much more domestic setting: the Euroluce section at the Salone…

This is a special moment for Automotive Lighting - Magneti Marelli’s division dedicated to vehicle lighting. After participating, together with Audi, in the design and construction of the first full LED headlights containing a laser high-beam module for use in a standard production car, the super sports car Audi R8 unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, it obtained two prestigious Red Dot Award 2015 recognitions: one, as “Best of the Best”, for the Full LED intelligent headlight developed with Audi for the new TT, and another for an innovative rear light prototype that uses Oled technology. We met Sergio Zattoni, Magneti Marelli engineer who works in close contact with car designers, to learn about their relationship with styling centres, «a relationship that has evolved very rapidly over the last ten…

To celebrate its 25 years in Europe, Toyota’s premium brand Lexus gave itself a fitting birthday present: the concept for an extreme compact study. But although not confirmed as a future production model, the size of the LF-SA, as it is named, also holds a message which responds to the marketing trend in the direction of more compact models being taken by most premium car makers. Indeed, the model is just 3,450 mm in length and seats 2 adults, plus 2 more on additional back seats. The fact that the LF SA is the first Lexus designed entirely in Toyota’s European ED2 studio in Sophia Antipolis, France, is another message that Lexus is focusing more on Europe than before. The project was initiated by interior chief designer Jaromir Cech and…

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The author, a car enthusiast and historian, narrates the history of the Moretti company, one of the most important coachbuilders of all types of vehicle, including cars, motorbikes, commercial and electric vehicles, as well as accumulators and sundry mechanical parts, from 1925 to the present day. A compelling narration, supported by a huge collection of images, documents and reports made available by Gianni Moretti, son of the founder, Giovanni, who assisted the author throughout the various stages of research and detailed analysis of facts and vehicles. The book describes the various stages in the life of the coachbuilding enterprise and provides a full fledged portrait of its founder: a keen observer, an entrepreneur who combined careful management with a love for innovation, a skilled technician always ready to learn from…

From fragile vacuum glass tubes to solid-state semiconductors. From lamps to LEDs: luminous diodes have turned on the revolution of light. Not only in electronics - and not only in so-called consumer electronics - but in cars too, where new lighting technologies have transformed the face (and the B-side) of cars over the past decade, with a sea-change in technology reminiscent of the demise of cathode ray tubes and the arrival of plasma and then Lcd flat-panel displays. This revolution in "solid state" light can be explained in one word: the LED, or Light Emitting Diode, an "invention" of the early 60s. We've seen LEDs populate stereos and electronic equipment with their little green and red, sometimes yellow lights. They then quickly turned up in cars, as warning lights in…

In March 1930 Woolf "Babe" Barnato - one of those gentlemen drivers remembered as the "Bentley Boys" and a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours (he was also son of the company’s chairman) - won a bet of one hundred pounds racing from Cannes against the famous Blue Train. He arrived in front of his London club four minutes before the train reached Calais. The car in question was the 6.5 litre Speed Six which thus went straight into the record books as part of motoring as well as Bentley legend. Emblematic of the speed-luxury combination that has always distinguished the Crewe manufacturer’s products, the Speed Six now takes on new life to mark a breakthrough in design and perhaps in future production too. The concept coupé EXP 10…

1 CHE È? 1 WHO IS HE? 2 COSA GUIDA? 2 WHAT DOES HE DRIVE? 3 DOVE VIVE? 3 WHERE DOES HE LIVE? Chi dice che gli oggetti non hanno anima? Prendono i tratti di chi li inventa, diventandone un po’ figli. II sogno di Umberto Palermo - designer di mestiere e per passione - parte dal bisogno innato di ogni creativo che si rispetti: dare forma a un’emozione, che lui poi adatta alle esigenze delle persone. Dall’auto all’home appliances, agli utility veichle, il mondo UP a giugno si fa in tre con il Caffè UP, per completare la filosofia aziendale ‘Disegniamo attorno all’uomo: immaginare, costruire, gustare’, e ricordare che la creatività può abitare ovunque. A partire dal luogo che per antonomasia ci protegge e nel quale ci rifugiamo: Umberto…

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