Merry Christmas to all

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Merry christmas and a happy new year!

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I have been in Barcelona/Martorell for almost 3 months now, (Time flies) and im having a great time here! Get many fun and challenging tasks together with a great team. The above picture shows the happy team of designers and modellers at SDC. (You can spot me in there somewhere:)

At the moment we are wrapping up for a well decerved christmas break. (I guess that goes for everybody right now)

Hope to see you all in not too long time. – Jan Christian

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TD1 spent a few days last week doing tape drawings of their lightweight vehicle concepts, a project in collaboration with Kiska.

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Second year student Louise McCallum (UK) was awarded the Special Cover Award for Creativity, given and chosen by Fulvio Cinti, the editor of Auto&Design Magazine.

Hosted by Berman, an aftermarket supplier of bespoke components to many OEMs, the Autostyle event is a two-day gathering where many of the industry’s designers, buyers and suppliers attend a conference to hear about the trends as perceived by automakers, and to see the newest “special versions’ created by budding designers. Guests at the 2011 event included Flavio Manzoni (Ferrari), Claudio Messale (Ford), Filippo Perini (Lamborghini) and Daniele Ceccomori (Bentley).

The 8th edition of the Autostyle Design Competition showcased a wide variety of aftermarket designs for the Alfa Romeo 4C, Ford Vertrek, Peugeot HR1, Audi Quattro and Toyota Yaris HSD. Created by 12 young designers from various parts of Europe, the designs were exhibited in the 1000 year-old Polirone Monastry in San Benedetto Po, Italy.

Louise’s proposal for a special edition of the Alfa Romeo 4C represents an option for a sportier version. The 4C Cloverleaf would be released with the production road version, and it demonstrates Alfa’s flare in its sculptured surfacing, whilst portraying its racing influences.

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Hi to all TD’s! =) As some may know I was in Japan and did an internship for Daihatsu during the summer. You might have noticed some fresh scale models that showed up in the studio a while back!? The models were made by me and Theo along with some very skilled clay modelers over in Osaka. They were very impressed by the skills we proved to have and it all comes down to the quality of teaching at UID =)  Well anyway, perhaps the model doesn’t say that much so I thought I might add my presentation slides aswell.

Point over the images for an explanation! =)

Keep up the good work and I’ll see you all when I come back and join TD2 in September 2012 =) Cheers! //Richard Stark

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