Editorial

This week’s newsletter homes in on two major trends in today’s automotive and mobility world: digitalization and new sustainable materials. The in-depth article this week looks at how the traditional…

CES is a bottomless source of innovation; its flows keep irrigating the DVN Interior Newsletter. And this week’s in-depth article focuses on ‘smar’t surfaces which keep expanding to cover more…

CES is now known as the most important auto show in the world. But it doesn’t look like a traditional auto show with halls full of vehicles all in a…

CES ’23 was as close as the event has yet come to pre-pandemic size and dynamism, with an impressive number of exhibitors; visitors, and endless show halls. CES is arguably…

Suppliers, automakers, and software providers are working on whole new kinds of interior lighting. They’re driven by changing mobility concepts and increasing real and imagined clamor for new user experiences.…

All of us at DVN Interior wish you the best of all the holidays you celebrate, and an enjoyable slide into 2023 (as they say in German). As you start…

This week’s news explores the ongoing ‘premiumization’ of high-segment car interiors. Features and technologies are diverse, and examples abound: the BMW i7 with an elegant cockpit interaction light bar, and…

The first DVN Interior Think Tank took place last week in Köln. This seminar was a successful test for intended future small working events about issues and items the interior…

The first DVN Interior Think Tank Seminar just wrapped up; watch for coverage on it next week. And we’re hard at work on the next event: the DVN Interior Workshop…

Last week, DVN interior attended the Automotive Interior Expo in Stuttgart, Germany. We found a wide array of fabrics; acoustical materials; shape-forming materials and foams; fasteners and adhesive systems; lighting,…