Category: Podcast

  • Creative Chameleons and the Domeble-Symetri Student Awards

    The Podcast Pierre-Paul Andriani, a Design Studio specialist at Autodesk sits down with Carl Lyttle, owner of Domeble for this Design Studio podcast. Domeble is a premium rights-managed stock library for photographic backplates, 360-degree domes, and VR environments. Carl is also the co-creator of the Domeble-Symetri Student Awards.  Carl Lyttle talks about his experiences and…

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  • PAUSE: The best of Autodesk Automotive, 2023

    Our PAUSE series aims to share Design Studio Blog posts you may have missed. It’s a chance for you to pause on a particular subject or series and take it in. In this PAUSE post, we’ve looked back on a year of industry stories, product news, and design inspiration and chosen our top 5 stories…

    PRODUCT NEWS

  • Women in tech: A conversation with Silverdraft CEO Amy Gile

    Amy Gile’s natural curiosity has made for an interesting – and sometimes unexpected – career. Working in the entertainment industry as an actor and producer, Amy began to see a place where she could make a real difference: visual technology. With Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, Amy developed a supercomputer to support the demands of rendering, animation,…

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  • AI in automotive design: A conversation with designer Ehab Kaoud

    It’s impossible to be in any field right now and not have AI creep into the conversation. Automotive design is no different. So Ananda Arasu and I had a conversation with designer Ehab Kaoud, one of our AIF presenters, to go deeper into AI and automotive design. You can listen to our conversation here and…

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  • Student shows, industry shifts, VR: A Conversation with Car Design News, part 2

    Earlier this spring, Ananda Arasu and I spent some time with James McLachlan, Editor for Car Design News (CDN). In Part 1 of that conversation, we discuss sustainability, customer demand, the CDN Review Book, and more. In Part 2, we’re shifting from legacy designers to new grads, a look at the current job market, and…

    INDUSTRY NEWS

  • The future is design: A conversation with Car Design News, part 1

    Ananda Arasu and I spent some time with James McLachlan, Editor for Car Design News. We talked through a wide range of pressing issues, including sustainability, customer demand, the CDN Review Book and more. Listen here for Part 1 of our conversation, scroll down for more detail and images, and stay tuned for Part 2.…

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  • PAUSE: Smart cities, Society 5.0 and the next generation of designers

    Our PAUSE series aims to share Design Studio Blog posts you may have missed. It’s a chance for you to pause on a particular subject or series and take it in. PAUSE on Smart Cities, Society 5.0 and the Next Generation of Designers One of our favourite things to do on the Design Studio Blog…

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  • Immersive storytelling, collaborative practice: The Academy of Art University’s School of Industrial Design

    The Academy of Art University, San Francisco When we first spoke with Antonio Borja, Director of the School of Industrial Design and heard about the Academy of Art University’s unique interdisciplinary program and rich industry collaborations, we wanted to know more. So we asked Antonio and some of his students to talk to us about…

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  • AIF 2022: Energy, transformation and the agile design studio

    In Conversation with Thomas Heermann and Marek Trawny The Automotive Innovation Forum is the opportunity for the Automotive Design team to share updates, tease new releases, and connect customers as a community. Our first live AIF in two years took place in Munich, Germany. Ananda Arasu and I caught up with Thomas Heermann (Automotive, Concept…

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  • Creation of the ETRAXX – Part 3

    This is Part 3 of our podcast with Florian Coenen, Technical Marketing Manager. In Part 1 of our podcast, we introduced you to the ETRAXX. We talked through the process behind the design, what design elements inspired it, initial sketching and moving those sketches into a CAD environment. In Part 2, we went deeper into…

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  • Creation of the ETRAXX – Part 2

    This is Part 2 of our podcast with Florian Coenen, Technical Marketing Manager. In Part 1 of our podcast, we introduced you to the ETRAXX. We talked through the process behind the design, what design elements inspired it, initial sketching, and moving those sketches into a CAD environment. That’s where we’re picking up for Part…

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  • Creation of the ETRAXX – Part 1

    Florian Coenen, Technical Marketing Manager at Autodesk, created a car he called ETRAXX. We’ve been using it a lot here at Autodesk, so we wanted to share with you the process behind its creation. Its inspiration actually started with Alias 2021.3. This release had a number of new features – new SubD features for concept…

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  • A Society 5.0 & vehicle-to-everything world

    When I started research on the concept of V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) about three years ago, I came across the Community Analysis Bureau of Los Angeles. I wanted to find the defining moment for the start of smart cities in North America—who was the first to begin using data to improve the day-to-day lives of their occupants.…

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