Volvo chief designer Peter Horbury saw the inside of his own concept car for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show last month. IN THE PAST, Horbury would have had his hands all over one of his ...

In an era of computer-aided design and 3-D printing, one traditional craft remains in automakers’ design studios: full-size clay models. For 80 years, clay modelers have used their hands and tools to ...

Stylists at Mazda Motor Corp. are renowned for their faith in old-school clay modeling when it comes to creating the brand's curvaceous Kodo car designs. But to perfect the voluptuous bends and molten ...

Auburn Hills — In an era of computer-aided design and 3-D printing, one traditional craft remains in automakers' design studios: full-size clay models. For 80 years, clay modelers have used their ...

In 2013, MIT unveiled a shape-shifting interface called Inform. Since then, the Tangible Media Group has continued developing new projects based on the display–including its latest, Materiable.

New cars have enough digital horsepower to connect to the Internet while going 70 miles an hour, compute speed and direction multiple times a second and drive themselves for long stretches if the law ...

For almost 100 years, car companies have been using clay models in the design process of automobile development, but with all the technology available to them now, why do they still employ the ...

“My favorite part of the new A7? It’s the rear end, but I also like the belt line,” Audi design boss Marc Lichte told us with the smile of a proud parent as he examined a life-sized clay model of the ...

Inspired by his love of The Simpsons, SNL and MTV’s anarchic idents, the New York illustrator’s characterful 3D-rendered animations reshape pop culture nostalgia for the present There’s a compelling ...

Volvo chief designer Peter Horbury saw the inside of his own concept car for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show last month. In the past, Horbury would have had his hands all over one of his ...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — In an era of computer-aided design and 3-D printing, one traditional craft remains in automakers' design studios: Full-size clay models. For 80 years, clay modelers have used ...