What we do to connect designers and suppliers
Interior Motives magazine from Car Design News hosts a select number of events which:
- allow designers to network and be inspired
- introduce the best of student work to future employers
- connect suppliers with the designers who will use their products or systems.
We currently do this by organising Interior Motives Conferences and Interior Motives Design Awards, and support Car Design News events and the CarDesignNight networking events.
Hub NEW
Hub is an exciting new concept which connects designers from the worlds of industrial and automotive interior design. Hub is a one day immersive experience designed to stimulate all five senses, which will connect, inform, inspire and entertain.
Created by Interior Motives and WGSN-Homebuildlife, the trend forecasting and design resource for the home & interiors market, the Hub series in 2013 starts with London on 20th September, and goes on to USA and Asia in 2014.
Conferences
| The conferences are a mix of presentations, networking and discussions. Speakers at our current annual conference in China (Shanghai/Beijing in alternate years), and in previous locations including Berlin, Turin and London, have challenged, explained and inspired. Delegates have had the opportunity to make the kinds of connections across the design community at these two-day forums which are simply not possible during the frantic press days of the major motor shows. |
A short video overview of the 2012 conference
If you are based in China please click on
this link to watch the video |
Competitions
| The Interior Motives Design Awards, launched in 2003, have set students the task of meeting a brief and being judged by some of the most senior design professionals in the industry. The awards attract entries from hundreds of students attending dozens of design colleges across the globe, and culminate in an exciting exhibition and awards ceremony held during the Frankfurt/Paris motor shows.
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A short video overview of the
2012 Car Design Awards China
If you are based in China please click on
this link to watch the video |
Other competitions, culminating in awards, are hosted by our parent Car Design News and include:
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Car Design News holds design competitions in association with OEMs, including for students in Europe with Opel Vauxhall and for students in North America with GM
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Car Design News organises an annual student design awards competition for China, launched in 2010 as the Car Design Awards China
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Car Design News also presents its annual Car Design of the Year based on reader voting for the Best Production Car and Best Concept Car.
CarDesignNight
This is the brand for the evening networking events held for designers during principal motor shows. Organised to blend networking and relaxation, they are held on the evening of the first press day at selected auto shows including Geneva, Beijing and Shanghai.See CarDesignNight
Sponsors
All these events allow sponsors to connect in person with senior designers and to be branded in the forums which focus on what they are delivering - the interiors of cars. Sponsors range from Tier 1 suppliers to providers of fabric, and from independent studios to suppliers of design IT systems.
All are building relationships and gaining brand value by being where the designers are. Interior Motives: automotive design from the inside.