Auto & Design is a highly professional magazine and can be found all over the world in the design centres of car manufacturers, in the offices of independent designers, in the design centres of components companies and electronic and special materials manufacturers, in University libraries and in the libraries of specialised schools. Its contents mainly cover project analyses from drawing board to final product, illustrated with research drawings and style models. Specific sections are dedicated to industrial and product design, new materials and innovative technologies as applied to the automotive world and to a variety of design sectors.
ITALIAN COACHBUILDING • The challenges of today and tomorrow
Memory of a gentlemen
AUTO & DESIGN
ITALIAN COACHBUILDERS IMBALANCES AND POTENTIAL
A SLOW TRICKLE OF INNOVATION/Innovazioni col contagocce
TWO RIVALS AT THE FRAY
DESIGNERS ON THE MOVE
A QUESTION OF CLASS/Una questione di classe
SYMBOL FOR AN ANNIVERSARY/Simbolo per un anniversario • To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Italdesign, Giorgetto Giugiaro and his team have crystallised his company’s two greatest strengths – style and technology – in a single object.
A LEAP INTO THE FUTURE/Un salto nel futuro
NEOCLASSICAL INNOVATION/Innovazione neoclassica
WINDSCREEN WIPER GOODBYE/C’era una volta il tergicristallo
THE BAT FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM/La BAT del terzo millennio
SEDUCTIVE CONTRASTS/ Seduzione nei contrasti
COHERENT SIMPLICITY / Coerente semplicità
VISUALISING TOMORROW/ Visualizzazione del domani
AN IBIZA UNDER THE MASK / Dietro la maschera l’Ibiza
FLUIDITY AND FUTURISM / Fluidità e futurismo
EXTREME SPORT/Sport estremo
Trend
THE PASSION OF THE TRIDENT/La passione del Tridente
THE INTERFACES OF TOUCH DESIGN/LE INTERFACCE DEL “TOUCH DESIGN”
THE EVOLUTION OF BAGS/L’EVOLUZIONE DELLA BORSA
DESIGNER VASES/VASI D’AUTORE
TWO-WHEELER INSPIRATION/L’ISPIRAZIONE DALLE DUE RUOTE
REINVENTED MATERIALS/MATERIALI REINTERPRETATI
THE POWER OF ICONS/Il potere delle icone
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