Are you ready to imagine the future of mobility and show your ideas to the people shaping the automotive industry? Autodesk Automotive is excited to launch the third edition of the Autodesk Automotive Student Design Competition, a global competition created to help emerging designers push their creativity, sharpen their digital skills, and gain real industry…
Innovation
Three years after our first conversation with Antonio Bailon Borja, Executive Director of the School of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art University, Blake Avery and I sat down with Antonio again. This conversation takes place in a very different design landscape than our 2022 conversation. New tools, like AI, have reshaped how ideas…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
At AIF 2026, Norton Motorcycles’ Ewen Macrury shared the story of the new Manx R: how a globally distributed team connected concept design, engineering, surfacing, visualization, and manufacturing knowledge to develop this exciting new design.
STORIES & INSPIRATION
At AIF 2026, Renault Design and Granstudio came together to share how they are making immersive vehicle reviews more accessible, repeatable, and useful throughout the design process. The full presentation, available below, covers the history of Renault’s visualization pipeline to the development of Granstudio’s mixed-reality platform, and, importantly, to its application to the Renault Twingo…
DESIGN STUDIO
At AIF 2026, Lars Thomsen (CEO of future matters) used his keynote to shift the AI conversation away from tools and toward a more fundamental question: how will work itself change when intelligence and productivity become scalable? Rather than positioning AI as another technology layer, Lars framed it as a turning point in how organizations…
AI
Inside Alias 2027 Automotive design depends on a constant exchange between creative intent and technical precision. A surface may begin as a gesture, a proportion, or a design theme — but at every stage, it has to be evaluated, refined, communicated, and carried forward without losing the original idea. In our Design Deep Dive at…
SOLUTIONS
VRED 2027 workflows for automotive design Automotive design reviews increasingly need to move beyond static presentation moments. Teams need to evaluate products in context, interact with scenes more naturally, and share visual experiences across different environments — from desktop workstations to Powerwalls, CAVEs, XR, and streamed sessions. In our Visualization Deep Dive at AIF 2026,…
SOLUTIONS
Every keynote has a drumbeat, and this year’s Design Studio Keynote session in Darmstadt had only one: speed. Not speed as a slogan or speed for its own sake, but speed with confidence. Director of Product Management Marek Trawny framed it at the top: while the pressure to compress vehicle development is relentless, the goal…
DESIGN STUDIO
The automotive industry is in a period of continuous evolution—shaped by shifting consumer expectations, advancing technologies, and increasing pressure to deliver faster and more efficiently. At Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF) 2026, that evolution takes center stage. Hosted by industry analyst Roger Atkins, this year’s event brings together leaders from automotive design and the manufacturing industry…
DESIGN STUDIO
Multi-view reference images converted into a proportionally scaled 3D mesh inside Alias. From sketch to model, faster Before a surface is ever finalized, designers need to answer a fundamental question: Does this proportion work? Traditionally, that meant building early NURBS or SubD geometry — not to resolve Class-A surfacing, but simply to evaluate stance, overhangs, and overall volume. It’s necessary work,…
PRODUCT NEWS
Three student design teams reinterpret historic vehicles through iconic art movements, combining Alias surface modeling and VRED visualization to bring their concepts to life. For two years running, the Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF) Student Design Competition has invited emerging designers to explore new ideas using professional automotive design workflows. The 2026 brief, “The Original &…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
Transport design education is evolving under competing pressures: rapidly advancing digital tools, the rise of AI-assisted workflows, and industry demand for graduates who can think across disciplines while still mastering fundamentals. At the University of Staffordshire, the relaunched Transport Design program is addressing these pressures by combining craft-based making, digital fluency, and strong industry engagement…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
How Alias, VRED, and NavPack connect design, visualization, and engineering through real-time physics insight. We’ve got a new NavPack webinar for you on the Autodesk Design Studio YouTube channel. It explores how automotive teams can bring real-time engineering insight directly into creative workflows, without disrupting your established design and visualization processes. This session, with host…
Skills
When Coventry University’s Automotive and Transport Design students won Autodesk’s Power of Brand competition, the result stood out for reasons that went beyond a polished final image. Judged on narrative clarity, modeling quality, and brand interpretation, the Coventry team’s concept drawings and renderings demonstrated something deeper: a disciplined design process grounded in intent, craft, and…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
We’re excited to announce that NavPack 2026 is now available as a fully integrated Autodesk offering across all global channels. Our latest product solution for AI accelerated Design and Engineering, NavPack leverages Physics AI to enable cross functional teams, such as designers and engineers, to effectively collaborate and make better informed decisions faster. Its ability…
PRODUCT NEWS