Next Tuesday, Sept 24 | World Premiere Reveal of " b l e u " CATIA Design Showcar

Join the Car-Design-News live webinar, on September 24th, to watch the online unveiling of the World Premiere virtual showcar " b l e u " by CATIA Design.
Follow the entire design process from the very first sketch to the high-end renderings and the full making-of.

Don't wait and get registered here.

Design Award Night | Frankfurt Motorshow, Germany 2013

CATIA Design was at the Design Award Night at the #Frankfurt Motorshow last week !

See the pictures here

3D Printing Goes into Automotive Industry

More and more industries are becoming aware of the multiple opportunities that 3D printing can offer to them and automotive industry isn't outdone. Two videos case studies posted on Car Design News are showing how Bentley uses Stratasys 3D printing to prototype new designs.

Renault Initiale Paris Concept Car, from Style to Innovation

See in this videos how Initiale Paris concept was designed, under the crook of Laurens van den Acker, Renault head designer. It embodies the "wisdom" stage in Renault's new design strategy.

Blending technical know-how with creative prowess, the new concept car previews the Espace replacement in an Initiale Paris version and embodies the brand's expertise and ambitions in the premium segment.

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Tower Infinity, The Invisible Skyscraper for Tomorrow's Cities | Project

This news come up this week: Tower Infinity in South Korea will come soon. South Korea decided to create the first invisible skyscraper to the world. The tower will project an image of whatever is behind it stiched together from three different cameras, making it seem invisible. if you are interested how technology and design works together to come to such great invention read Core77 blog.

Reality or Ultra-Reality ?...What Technology Can Do!

Watch this video of LG and tell me how you would have reacted in this situation?! 

 Phonebloks, A Phone Worth Keeping | Project

Finally a phone how's been designed to last ! The mobile Phoneblok is made of detachable bloks. These bloks are connected to the base which locks everything together into a solid phone. If a blok breaks it is easy to replace it :)

The concept: Create an app store for hardware (blockstore),where people could buy their own bloks, read reviews and sell old bloks. Small and big companies will develop and sell their bloks in this place.

If you like the concept join the crowd-speaking platform Thunderclap and let your voices be heard.

Watch the video, see their Facebook page or/and follow the project on Twitter.

CATIA, Sponsor of the Interior Motives Design Award 2013

The finalists of the Interior Motives Design Award 2013 will be soon announced. Here are listed some of finalists by category. Go here to see the full list...It's worth to have a look !

For the category  | Best Artistic Vizualization (sponsored by CATIA) 

The winner is Arthur Coudert from Strate College in France.

For the category  | Best Eco Interior

The winner is Sydney Hardy from Strate College in France.

For the category | Best Use of Technology

Erick Evers, from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden won.

For the category | Best Innovative Interior

Cyril Verbrugge and Artur Guinet, once again, two students from Strate College in France carried the prize off !

For the category | Best Ergonomics

Nir Siegel, Cherica Haye and Hanchul Lee, studying at the Royal College of Art in London were the overall winner !

To be continued...

The winning entries will be published in the Autumn 2013 issue of Interior Motives magazine.

CATIA Creative Design Community reached 1'000 members this week !

Dear communiy members,we are pleased to inform you that we are now

more than 1'000 members in the community !

More and more people get involved in this community and we are happy with that !

We are always really pleased  to welcome new members and happy to discover your works, opinions and reactions. If you didn't do it yet, don't hesitate to get involved by starting to introduce yourself here.

Artwork |  High-Tech Design

Yesterday, my Artwork post was about High-Tech Design. If you haven't seen it yet have a look at my post and see the Inspiral Phone and others designs created by the community members with CATIA Creative Design or CATIA Icem

The London Design Festival | September 14 - 22, 2013, London

First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world's most important annual design events.

The Festival programme is made up of over 300 events and exhibitions staged by hundreds of partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world.

Circles | September, 19-20, 2013, Texas

Creative conference Circles is a place to learn from world-changing

thinkers and innovators from the creative community.

abc Art Berlin Contemporary 2013 |September, 19 - 22, 2013, Berlin

abc was developed by Berlin galleries as an appealing platformfor international

galleries to present individual works of contemporary art from around the world in Berlin.

What's New, What's Next at New York Design Center | September, 19, 2013, New York