Category: DESIGN STUDIO
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Celebrating the people behind design: 2025 Car Design News People Awards
While we love seeing the final shape of beautiful cars on the road, we don’t always recognize that every great car starts with ideas, talent, and people. That’s where Car Design News People Awards (CDN People Awards) come in, shining a spotlight on the individuals and teams responsible for the creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation behind…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Shaping the future of automotive design: Car Design News survey
Digital transformation is redefining how cars are imagined and built. As designers, you are constantly blending creativity with technology. With virtual, augmented, and increasingly intelligent tools, you’re designing vehicles faster, smarter, and with greater precision. To better understand this evolving landscape, Car Design News, in partnership with Autodesk, invites you to take part in the…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Design smarter, faster: Covestro’s Imagio® material library now in Autodesk VRED
We’ve got some exciting news for automotive and transportation designers: Covestro’s Imagio® digital sample library is now integrated directly into Autodesk VRED 2026.1. That means instant access to tens of thousands of photorealistic polycarbonate materials—where and when you need them. Designers don’t have to wait on physical samples or hunt through material catalogs, because they…
DESIGN STUDIO
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A Kind of Magic – One Click to XR: How Hololight Stream Runtime and VRED are making Immersive Design effortless
In the dynamic world of immersive technology, the demand is clear: XR experiences need to be more accessible, flexible, and easier to deploy. Enter Hololight Stream Runtime, in combination with Autodesk VRED – a groundbreaking duo that redefines powerful 3D visualization across various devices. Whether you’re validating complex design data or collaborating on product variants,…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Announcing AIF26 — June 2-3, 2026
We’re excited to announce that the Autodesk Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF) is back in 2026—and bigger than ever. Join us June 2–3, 2026, at the Darmstadtium Science & Congress Center in Darmstadt, Germany, for two immersive days of insight, innovation, networking and inspiration at the intersection of automotive design, engineering, and visualization. Whether you’re shaping…
DESIGN STUDIO
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What’s new in Alias 2026: A new era of design, surfacing, and visualization
The Alias 2026 release brings an exciting range of new tools and workflows that continue to redefine how designers and engineers create, collaborate, and visualize their ideas. With a focus on seamless visualization, smarter modeling tools, and workflow efficiency, Alias 2026 makes it easier than ever to bring your creative vision to life. VRED Renderer…
DESIGN STUDIO
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What’s new in VRED 2026: Next-gen visualization for designers
The VRED 2026 release continues to refine the value of real-time rendering, interoperability, and collaboration. Packed with groundbreaking new features like the Vulkan render engine and Live Referencing between Alias and VRED, this release is designed to make your design and visualization pipeline more efficient, more collaborative, and more powerful than ever before. Vulkan: A…
PRODUCT NEWS
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BMW Redefines Design Review with Cloud Streaming & VRED Core
At AIF25, BMW showcased its bold approach to the future of automotive design collaboration—bringing high-fidelity workflows directly into the cloud. Centered on pushing efficiency, security, and innovation, BMW’s demonstration focused on how VRED Core’s cutting-edge streaming functionality is reshaping collaborative design reviews from anywhere at every step in the process. Watch the BMW Cloud Streaming…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Designing the Future: Coventry Students Win Autodesk Automotive Design Competition at AIF25
At this year’s Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25), the spotlight wasn’t only on the latest technologies, software, and OEM strategies — it was also on the next generation of automotive design talent. The Autodesk Automotive Student Design Competition, hosted in collaboration with leading design institutions, challenged students to develop bold new vehicle concepts using industry-standard design…
DESIGN STUDIO
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NIO Drives Workflow Efficiency Powered by Flow Production Tracking
At the 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25), global EV innovator NIO shared how their team streamlined complex design and engineering workflows using Autodesk Flow Production Tracking — a solution built to support collaboration, transparency and process automation across fast-paced, creative production pipelines. As NIO scaled its operations to manage more concurrent programs, the need for…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Creative Flow and Connected Tools: The Design Studio Keynote at AIF25
In a world where timelines are tighter, teams are more distributed, and technology is constantly changing, one thing remains essential: supporting creativity without compromise.
DESIGN STUDIO
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After All, There Is No Finish Line — AIF25 Keynote
The 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25) opened with a keynote from Raphael Gielgen, Future of Work Trendscout at Vitra, that set a reflective and energizing tone for the event: “After All, There Is No Finish Line.”
DESIGN STUDIO
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AIF25: Adaptability in Action – The Future of Automotive Innovation
The 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25) brought together over 550 industry professionals, representing over 60 global automotive and mobility companies plus many individual designers, for two days of deep discussion around a central theme: Adaptability. Featuring 34 sessions, 28 external speakers, and 24 Autodesk experts, AIF25 explored how the design, engineering, and manufacturing landscape is evolving — and how teams must adapt their…
AI
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Welcome NAVASTO: Designers gaining insights into performance in real time
Established 10 years ago by two engineers, NAVASTO has grown into a team of experts specializing in data science, engineering, physics, and software development. Because it was established by engineers, NAVASTO knows intimately the pain points of design process for structural engineers and designers. So NAVASTO spent the last decade addressing these real-world challenges in…
DESIGN STUDIO
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Call for Entries: 2026 AIF Autodesk Student Design Competition
Are you an enrolled student with a passion for innovation and a drive to make a difference? Is your school a hub of creativity and forward-thinking? Autodesk is now calling for school entries to our second annual 2026 AIF Student Competition. Why should you enter? FAQ In it to Win Read about the Autodesk 2025…
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