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Designing bespoke car luggage

Luxury automakers are designing bespoke car luggage to compliment their vehicles.

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Zenos E10 chassis

Designing for a startup car company

Drive were approached by Zenos Cars because of their experience of designing for a startup car company.

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Challenge yourself

Challenge yourself

23hrs 55mins and the suspension collapsed.

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Drive design

Design Consultancies offer something different

Few companies do not use the services of external design consultancies.

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Our new drive luggage website driveluggage.com coming soon.

Join us on our journey and enjoy the drive! www.driveluggage.com will be live in April.

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Portfolio

Car designer portfolio advice

Mark Przeslawski gives some car designer portfolio advice on what a graduate designer’s portfolio should contain.

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driven by design pages

DRIVEN BY DESIGN

A book by Drive, not the story of Drive.

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Choosing a luggage manufacturer

When choosing a luggage manufacturer, build a relationship, invest time and money visiting them, to ensure they are right for you.

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Its not who you know

It’s not who you know It’s who you don’t know

It is often said “It’s not what you know but who you know.”

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RUBERY OWEN BOARDROOM

My favourite place to have presented drive, has to be the Rubery Owen boardroom.

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Car company startups design advice

Providing car company startups design advice can be one of the most rewarding challenges for a consultancy like Drive.

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Automotive design recruitment agencies

Looking for your next role? Have a chat with Debra.

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drive

Drive

I have been thinking back to one of the first decisions that had to be made when starting our company.

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Studio shot

The Automotive design industry is in a period of change

Established ways of doing things are being challenged and their effectiveness questioned.

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design collaboration

Design collaboration with other consultancies

We actively look for opportunities for design collaboration with other consultancies.

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Lightning GT Iain Sanderson, Sir Ian Botham

Lightning GT – One man’s vision

Nice to see Iain Sanderson and the Lightning GT being recognised in Autocar

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Goodwood, Touring Cars and Tom Walkinshaw

Touring Cars and Tom Walkinshaw at Goodwood

The Goodwood Member’s Meetings are enjoyable for all the usual reasons associated with this famous venue

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autonomous supercar

Autonomous Supercars – The race is on.

The race to produce the first production autonomous supercar is well and truely on.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn automotive designer discussions

LinkedIn has become an incredible database for automotive design personnel.

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Glasgow School of Art

I can’t believe it has happened again, Heart breaking.  This is my original article I wrote on 28th May 2014. Reading the headlines on Friday evening I was dismayed to hear about the fire at the Glasgow School of Art, one of the most important and historic Art Nouveau buildings in the UK. It has been […]

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Top Gear Magazine reveals Caterham C120

In this months Top Gear magazine it is great to see Caterham Cars CEO Graham McDonald, showing off the C120 concept design that drive developed.  This was destined to be the sister car to the future Alpine, had the Caterham / Renault joint venture lived on.  A project that everyone at Drive is very proud […]

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205 GTI

205 GTi – Still Turning Heads

A diversion on my commute with the low winter sun piercing through the beautiful early morning mist reminded me of the last time I drove this road.  It was with a colleague, who had his lovely Peugeot 205 GTi out of ‘storage’, to take a few photographs while the forest was alive with intense autumn […]

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Thomas-Tjaarda

Two Lucky Men – Patrick Le Quément and Tom Tjaarda

During the auto® automotive design conference, I was fortunate enough to share some time with Patrick Le Quément and Tom Tjaarda, who were both there to present and share their lifetimes of involvement in the car industry. TOM TJAARDA Tom Tjaarda is relaxed, telling stories from his incredible career, generous in recounting his experiences with […]

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future

If I were to ask around our office what everyone’s all time favourite film was, I’m sure the replies would include a couple of obscure French titles, and several horror b-movies. I would probably be the odd one out, and come clean that my favourite film is an American production that everyone knows and has […]

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