Interior Motives is a part of the Car Design News portfolio of information resources for automotive design professionals worldwide. The portfolio includes:
www.cardesignnews.com, which carries reports on new concepts and production cars, backed up by investigations of the design development behind the creation of new vehicles, and by design reviews which are written by designers for designers.
Exclusive interviews with design directors, plus ‘who’s where’ reports on the movements of senior designers, ensure that subscribers stay in touch with the people who head the studios. Daily reporting from more than a dozen auto shows around the world means that subscribers also keep up with all the developments being released globally.
Also among a broad range of content are reports from the exhibitions held by leading design schools, together with the broadest range available anywhere of student portfolios.
An average 70,000 unique users per month access around 3 million pages per month. Over the course of a year, the site has approximately 700,000 absolutely unique users.
Interior Motives from Car Design News is the print complement, as a high-quality magazine that focuses on arguably the most challenging aspect of automotive design, the interior. Interior Motives is automotive design from the inside.
Available online to subscribers and to Car Design News members. Chinese edition also available free of charge.
Special publications are created periodically and circulated to subscribers to Interior Motives. Both the Chrysler design edition of 2009 and the GM design edition of 2007, which had global print circulations, are accessible online
Car of the Year is an award - in fact two awards - voted by the global design community in both concept and production car categories. They are announced shortly after the year-end on Car Design News
Interior Motives Student Design Awards is the successful interior design competition entered by hundred of students from dozens of design schools round the world. The contest climaxes in a headline-grabbing awards ceremony in Paris/ Frankfurt during the auto show.
Conferences are held in both Europe and Asia which bring together senior designers to meet, present and debate face-to-face.
Car Design Night is the name for a series of networking/social events held on the eve of prominent international motor shows including Geneva and Shanghai. They aim to provide a stylish and supportive atmosphere for unique gatherings of design talent.