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Nissan Design Europe – Senior Colour Designer

Form Trends — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:20:43 +0000

NDE’s Colour Designer is responsible for providing modern and innovative colour and material design that both challenges traditional approaches whilst reflecting the requirements and expectations of the Company product planning brief. This role requires high creativity, automotive industry experience, strong project management, team-working skills and excellent communication skills, to effectively and efficiently work on specific colour projects for production vehicles, advanced concepts and colour strategy research. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES / KEY TASKS DEFINED Creative Design – Projects Lead research and develop […]

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Nissan GT-R (X) Design Study – An Autonomous Car for Enthusiasts

Eric Gallina — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The Nissan GT-R (X) is a design study for a future autonomous sports car for the year 2050. Its creator, former Nissan Design America (NDA) intern and recent ArtCenter College of Design graduate Jaebum ‘JB’ Choi, envisioned it as a sensory experience for the enthusiast driver. “I started my internship at NDA in January and participated in company projects for about two months. Then, I started my ‘vision humanoid’ project for the rest of the internship, working from home because […]

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Shaking Hands With Your Car – A Look into Behavioral Design for Vehicles

Car Design Research — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:00:07 +0000

Not many of us shake hands with the people we share our living space with. Morning greetings may happen, but fundamentally when people are both already in the same space, and very familiar with seeing one another on and off much of the time, their greetings are less pronounced. It’s often the same with work colleagues too; a handshake greeting with everyone every day would be labored (although I’m always charmed by the way many of the French still do […]

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Nissan Design Latin America Adds Non-Automotive Consultancy Offer

Eric Gallina — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:01:00 +0000

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Nissan Z Proto Design References Previous Generations for Inspiration

Eric Gallina — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:00:52 +0000

Since its inception, the Nissan Z has always been an avant-garde sports car, an uncompromising driver-centric machine that stood firmly in the future. For this latest generation, the company’s design team was inspired by elements from previous successful generations of the now-iconic sports car, which will be called the 400Z when it makes an appearance in the US market next year. “We explored two directions – one with a strong homage tone, and one with a futuristic feeling throughout,” says […]

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Mat Weaver Promoted to Vice President of Nissan Design Europe

Eric Gallina — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 08:21:41 +0000

Nissan Design Europe (NDE) design director Matthew Weaver has finally been promoted to the position of vice president, effective April 1, 2020. He succeeds Mamoru Aoki, who will retire after 39 years with the company. It’s great to see Weaver land the top job at NDE. He is the first European to do so. Given his years of service at Nissan and his numerous contributions, we’d say it’s well deserved. Weaver joined Nissan Design in 2001 and hit the ground […]

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NDE Design Director Mat Weaver on the New Nissan Juke

Eric Gallina — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The Nissan Juke caused quite a stir when it was first unveiled nearly a decade ago. Designed by Mat Weaver at the Nissan Design Europe (NDE), the compact SUV was unabashedly design-led and proved immensely popular. In the Nissan stable, it was only outsold by the venerable Qashqai (another Mat Weaver design). It sent competitors rushing to the drawing boards, clamoring to develop their own B-Segment SUV contender. The second iteration of the Nissan Juke was again designed at NDE, […]

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Nissan Design China Relocates from Beijing to Shanghai

Eric Gallina — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:00:25 +0000

Nissan Motor Co. has announced the relocation of its China design center, one of five global hubs charged with designing the company’s vehicles, to Shanghai, joining the nearly 30 automotive design studios located in the Chinese metropolis. Nissan Design China, previously based in Beijing, will continue its focus on creating products for global customers including those in China, the world’s largest automotive market. The center will be an essential hub for using design to better connect people and communities with […]

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Nissan Promotes John Anthony Sahs to Head Latin American Satellite Studio

Eric Gallina — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:19:49 +0000

Nissan designer John Anthony Sahs moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to take on a new role as chief designer of NDA-R (Nissan Design Americas – Rio) back in March this year. He took over the role from Robert Bauer, NDA-R’s former chief designer since 2014, when the studio opened. Bauer moved back to join Nissan’s production design studio in Michigan. SUGGESTED VIDEO: ‘A Window into the Life of John Anthony Sahs’ (directed by John’s cousin, John Reyes-Nguyen) Besides having been […]

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Datsun Design Director Kei Kyu on Creating for High-Growth Markets

Eric Gallina — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:07:41 +0000

Four years ago, on March 19, 2014, the first all-new 21st century

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Nissan Design Europe (NDE) Celebrates 15 Years in London

Eric Gallina — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:50:14 +0000

Nissan’s European design hub, Nissan Design Europe (NDE), has been in London, UK, since 2003. Over the course of the last 15 years, the studio has been responsible for an array of hugely successful models for the Japanese brand and, most recently, a number of Infiniti brand products. A specific Infiniti studio opened adjacent to the Nissan facility in 2014. A Brief History When Nissan first opened its European studio in 1990, NDE was based within Nissan’s Technical Centre Europe […]

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The Best Concept Vehicles at the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show

Eric Gallina — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:18:23 +0000

The 2017 Tokyo motor show has opened its doors to the public. With a number of concept car debuts from... LOGIN OR SUBSCRIBE TO VIEW

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