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Listen to live reviews from the show floors of the world’s biggest auto shows, and learn about the design philosophies and career paths of the industry’s top designers and engineers. Our special guests include industry leaders from the world’s largest manufacturers and mobility design pioneers.

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Folge 01: Learning Design with Clemens Mahler

Kick-Off! Es geht - gezwungenermaßen remote - los mit Folge #01 in der sich alles um das Thema Lernen und Weiterbilden dreht. Dazu als Gast: Clemens Mahler - Dozent und Freelancer, mit dem ich über seine Erfahrungen als Dozent spreche und der seine Insights teilt, wie man die herausfordernde Projektlage sinnvoll nutzen kann, dem eigenen Design-Können ein kurzes Update den letzten Schliff zu geben.

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EP 42: Mobility and Design with Puma's Sonny Lim

Sonny Lim, Head of Design Motorsports at PUMA's Headquarter in Herzogenaurach, Germany joins Martin in this week's episode to talk about what Mobility means for a company such as Puma, how his background in transportation and product design helped him to develop a diverse design career, why a shoe is not that different from a car and how product and transportation might merge in the future.

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EP 41: Design as a Business with Benjamin Nawka

Benjamin Nawka, Chief Designer at Borgward's German studio in Stuttgart joins Martin in this week's episode to share some insights on how design can impact major business decisions in a positive way, how to run a design studio as a design and how knowing more than just the design department helps you to make better decisions for better products.

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EP 40: Teaching Design and Beyond with Lutz Fügener

Lutz Fügener, Professor for Transporation Design and Chair of the Bachelors Programme at the renowned Pforzheim University joins Martin in the 10th Special Episode to discuss design education, how students impact the design industry, is a MBA for creatives anything we will see in the future and the role of the industry in education.

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EP 39: Starting a Design Organization with Oliver Vogt (Partner - Konzepthaus Innovation Consultancy)

Oliver Vogt, Byton's Director of Design Operations, joins Martin in the 9th Special Episode to talk about the process of starting a design organization, the challenges he faced in this journey and the experience he made.

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EP 38: Review - The Geneva No-Show 2020 Part 2 - The Concept Cars

Welcome back to the first Auto Show review of this year. Due to the cancellation of the Geneva International Motorshow 2020, Eric and Martin have to resort to a purely digital walkthrough. Tune into the second part of our review for all the concept cars that should have been presented.

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EP 37: Review - The Geneva No-Show 2020 Part 1 - The Production Cars

Welcome back to the first Auto Show review of this year. Due to the cancellation of the Geneva International Motorshow 2020, Eric and Martin have to resort to a purely digital walkthrough. Tune into the first part of our review for all the production cars that should have been presented.

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EP 36: Special Episode 8 - Defining Experience with Christian Eckert

Christian Eckert, Chief Experience Officer at Iconmobile joins Martin on our 8th special episode to talk about the automotive experience. Christian gives us a deep insight on what combining and leading experience mean already today, the impact the new mobility has on this experience and where the future of mobility might look like.

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EP 35: Piano Black

Eric and Martin return with a not so brief review of the India Auto Expo and more exciting topics. Join us on our 18th episode for the latest unveiled concept and production cars, a massive rant about piano black wheel arches and some very exciting announcements.

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EP 34: Car Dreams

The new year brings us new auto shows and newly unveiled cars. Martin and Eric return after a well-earned winter break just to find that the car industry had no break at all. While they spent time under Christmas trees the industry has been busy and unveiled a lot of new cars. Tune in now and find out what Eric and Martin think about newly unveiled cars like the Gordon Murray T50, the TOGG by Pininfarina, the Sony Concept, The Mercedes Avatar, and the Fiskar Ocean.

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EP 33: The Konzepthaus Design Awards 2019

We are happy to welcome our audience to one of the most important design awards in the industry. Our hosts Martin Groschwald and Eric Gallina lead present us the best concept and production cars they have seen on this year's auto shows in the following categories.

Production Car Design of the Year
Concept Car Design of the Year
Design Team of the Year
Best Exterior of the Year
Best Interior of the Year
Best UX of the Year
Best CMF of the Year
Most disappointing production car design of the year
Most disappointing concept car design of the year

Amongst the nominees are world-renowned brands like Aston Maritn Lagonda, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Genesis, Kia, Peugeot, Porsche, Toyota and also newcomers who have shaken up the industry in the past year.

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EP 32: Specializing in the Making of Things with Oliver Seil

In our 7th special episode, Martin invited Belkin Internationals VP of Design Oliver Seil to find out how the Belkin design team is able to put out so many products and how the product design process compares to the auto industry.