Design Competitions Archives

Jeep Launches 2021 Drive for Design Contest for US High School Students

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000

In his high school days, Mark Trostle entered a design contest that would propel him down the path of automotive design. He won the contest and embarked on the first step of a career that would ultimately see him become Head of Ram Truck and Mopar Design at Stellantis. That contest was Drive for Design. In 2013 he revived the contest, enabling young aspiring designers currently enrolled in high schools in the United States to be recognized and win prizes. […]

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Polestar Announces Winners of Global Design Contest

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:00:38 +0000

Polestar announced the winners of its first annual Design Contest today. Initiated in June, the design competition drew great interest from both professional and student designers, each competing for the podium in the respective category. The winners’ designs will now be displayed virtually and in Polestar Spaces around the world. The Polestar Design Contest invited both professional and student designers to create a vision of future mobility based around the theme of ‘purity’. They were asked to present a new […]

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Polestar Launches Global Design Contest

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:58:00 +0000

Swedish performance electric car manufacturer Polestar has announced the Polestar Design Contest, the first of what will become an annual event. Running this year from June 23 to October 26, the contest will uniquely see Polestar designers coaching shortlisted contestants and modelers assisting to bring their creations to life. The contest is inspired by the wealth of creativity shared by designers with Polestar’s @polestardesigncommunity Instagram page – another initiative of the Polestar Design department. “We have experienced fantastic creative interpretation […]

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Volvo China Design Center Sponsors Project at CDS Transportation Design Academy

Wed, 01 May 2019 11:46:22 +0000

Collaborations between automakers’ design studios and academic institutions are an important element of the car design and education process. On the one side, schools benefit financially from having their students work on a project for a carmaker, and on the other automakers get fresh ideas from a new generation of aspiring car designers. And so, during the autumn of 2018, Volvo Car China Design Center and CDS Transportation Design Academy collaborated on the ‘V.01’ cooperation course. The collaboration project, which was […]

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SAIC Design Challenge Asks Students to Harness ‘Spirit of MG’

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:19:13 +0000

Do you dream of becoming a car designer? Are you currently enrolled in a design university? Do you want to see your work built to scale? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you should consider entering the SAIC Design Challenge. Now in its sixth year, the SAIC Design Challenge has been instrumental in launching the careers of many aspiring automotive designers. A previous competition winner — now working at the SAIC Technical Center in the UK […]

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Toyota and WRI Brasil Launch InoveMob Challenge

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:20:30 +0000

The Toyota Mobility Foundation has partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) of Brasil in the creation of the InoveMob Challenge, a new competition designed to foster innovation for urban mobility solutions. The competition seeks to identify solutions to improve urban mobility in areas of intense population in order to alleviate traffic congestion to reduce emissions and pollution. Targeted at entrepreneurs, researchers and mobility solutions companies, the purpose of the initiative is to select the most innovative projects that promote […]

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CNH Industrial Asks RCA Students to Envision Future Product

Fri, 19 May 2017 11:40:06 +0000

CNH Industrial — maker of commercial vehicles, agricultural and construction equipment — recently sponsored a project at the Royal College of Art (RCA) that asked students to design innovative and sustainable machinery for emerging markets. Some 30 students from the RCA’s vehicle and service design programs were challenged to develop innovative industrial products and services to match local needs and existing infrastructure in developing nations. The goal was to create a concept that would succeed in low capital, low income, […]

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Peugeot Design Summer Class 2017 – Applications Open

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:36:23 +0000

Peugeot is currently accepting applications for a Design Summer Class that will see 10 lucky young applicants join the company’s designers on a four-week training course in Paris. Applications are open until April 30, 2017. The intensive summer course will take place from July 17 to August 11, 2017, and is open to all students, worldwide, currently studying applied arts (industrial design, car design, graphic design, UX, architecture or related discipline). Students can be in any year of study. Peugeot […]

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Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment is a Party With A Winner

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:38:53 +0000

There are a lot of parties to attend over auto week in Detroit. Besides Camilo Pardo’s awesome annual event, manufacturers also host their own celebratory gatherings, which offer a chance to catch up with the people behind the products (Hyundai Group design boss Peter Schreyer poured me a drink at Slows, a restaurant/bar the company takes over after the first press day). The relative newcomer to the scene is the Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment hosted by Brook Middlecott Banham and Frank […]

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Ferrari announces winners of Top Design School Challenge

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:12:33 +0000

Last week, while we were busy at the Detroit auto show, Ferrari announced the winners of the Top Design School Challenge: the Manifesto concept by ISD-Rubika students Michael Barthly, Grimaud Gervex, Jean Baptiste Epinat, Mickael Kalyvianakis, Stanislas Oleksiak and William Stock (video above). Jury members Flavio Manzoni, Paolo Pininfarina, Jay Kay, Nick Mason, Nicola Boari, Franco Cimatti, Aldo Colonnetti, Rodolfo Gaffino Rossi, Andrea Militello and Sebastian Vettel were apparently won over by the completeness of the Manifesto design as well […]

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Ferrari Top Design School Challenge 2015

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:37:54 +0000

Ferrari has embarked on a design competition with four of the world’s leading transportation design universities to create the Ferrari of 2040. Students from Germany’s Pforzheim University, the USA’s College for Creative Studies, South Korea’s Hongik University and the Institut Supérieur de Design (ISD) in Valenciennes, France, have imagined and interpreted the Ferrari of the future, taking into account aesthetic appeal as well as pioneering materials, advanced engineering, eco-sustainability and safety factors. CCS entries The students began working on their […]

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Jaguar Design’s Collaboration With Art Center and Academy of Art Update

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:45:01 +0000

Back in May, we wrote about a collaborative project being undertaken by students enrolled in the transportation design programs at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Academy of Art in San Francisco sponsored by Jaguar Design. The collaborative project’s goal is to create three distinctly different concept designs for future Jaguar vehicles. The Art Center students were asked to design an iconic gasoline powered 2030+ Jaguar sports car focusing on design language, sculpture and proportion, while students […]

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