Volvo Cars continues to harvest immense successes. The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries together with the Swedish Society of Crafts & Design and the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation jointly awarded the 2003 Design Award to the Volvo XC90.
He is into sci-fi movies, sculptured titanium watches and futurology. Volvo Cars’ studio chief designer Stefan Jansson is already demonstrating his ‘eye’ for what lies ahead.
For Volvo Cars industrial designer Corien Pompe, design is about exploring and discovering life in all its colourful facets, the chance to set free her inspiration to sculpture desire.
Trying to imagine what cars will look like one generation from now while talking to Volvo Cars’ youngest designer Carl Ringquist gives a glimpse into just how paradoxical life can be in our rapidly changing 21st Century world.
Most people would not see any natural link between a hotel made entirely of ice and a Swiss army knife. But for Volvo Cars interior designer Jonathan Dale the connection was clear-cut.
For many people their car is practically a second home, so why not give customers more choice in making it a cosy and comfortable place to spend time in, says Volvo Cars chief designer colour and trim Lena Jiseborn.