“Design, as it is known and taught, is unable, on a systemic level, to cope with the dimension of change coming to the world,” writes Chris Bangle in an article he sends over for me to ponder. The ...

Whether you love the work of Chris Bangle or hate it, this much is clear: after a career in the automotive industry spanning 28 years, it’s awfully hard to ignore the influence Bangle has had on ...

A wild-eyed revolutionary destroying one of Europe's blue-chip luxury brands? The most influential automotive designer of the early 21st century? Passions run high whenever BMW's design chief is the ...

Saab had always been the purveyor of unusual designs: Witness the Sonett I through III and the 96 from its early catalog. By the time the 99 sedan rolled around, however, the brand’s eccentricities ...

The company is called Redspace, and the vehicle shown here is its new electric city car. The design is certainly...different, which starts to make sense when you discover that ex-BMW head designer ...

One of the most controversial designers in recent memory, Chris Bangle, is leaving BMW this month to pursue interests outside of the car business. The move is voluntary, BMW says, and Bangle will be ...

One of the most famous, and controversial, automotive designers in recent years, Chris Bangle has left a lasting impact on car design Chris Bangle, head of design at BMW Group from 1992 to 2009, is ...

Chris Bangle worked 17 years for BMW, some of which were spent as the head of the design department. Some of the Bavarian manufacturer's most controversial models came out during that period, ...

We're not sure how many of you remember Chris Bangle, the former head of design from BMW, but we're pretty confident that most of the BMWs that you see today on the streets wear his marque. From now ...

Chris Bangle is the tortured artist railing against the society that doesn’t appreciate his genius. His tenure as head of design at BMW was marked by controversy. His 2002 7-Series was loved by some ...

In the wake of the pandemic, as the world went into shutdown mode, I received an email from Chris Bangle. It contained his polemic on the future of car design. Written originally alongside his ...