Car designers get ideas from many different things. For Volvo’s Design Director Henrik Otto inspiration comes from life, chilling out over a Japanese meal, visiting an Italian furniture fair -- even while relaxing with yoga.
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.