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Interior Motives Design Awards 2013 deadline this Friday

The deadline for entries to the Interior Motives Design Awards is Friday 12th April. You have just three more days to have your work evaluated by some of the most influential figures in the automotive design industry, including Volkswagen's Romulus Rost and Wolfgang-Müller-Pietralla, and Amko Leenarts and David Woodhouse of Ford. Should your project reach the final round of judging, it will be displayed at a glamorous awards ceremony in Frankfurt on 9th September, the eve of the first Frankfurt Motor Show press day.

Ford Super Duty lineup gets punched-up MyFord Touch

It took the rough touch of a construction worker's gloved hand, but Ford got the message. In the 2013 Ford F-Series Super Duty pickups, MyFord Touch gets some redundant controls for audio and climate systems. Ford's big story for the big trucks was the addition of Platinum trim to the F-Series Super Duty lineup for 2013.

Syd Mead's 'Progressions' exhibition featured on CarArt.us

CarArt.us, the largest online automotive art gallery, is featuring art from world-renowned futurist Syd Mead's 50-piece ‘Progressions' exhibit, a retrospective spanning more than 50 years. Mead's work is shown in chronological order, starting from 1957's Bugatti concept and tracking his progression all the way up to 2010's Megacoach. Highly influential futurist Mead graduated with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1959, beginning his career at Ford's Advanced Styling Studio in Dearborn, Michigan, before establishing Syd Mead, Inc.