Volvo launches new Design Studio in Shanghai – Mondo Auto

More than 5,500 square meters where a hundred designers and engineers will greet each other in the morning in a gentle and balanced way. Offices with a useful and linear style, volume, intuition, and carefully selected materials, where creativity can fly freely to take the form of a car.

From concept to series production

It could not have been done otherwise new design studio which Volvo recently launched in Shanghai, and which joins the historic one in Gothenburg and the one in Camarillo, California.

Intended to be one of the most comprehensive design centers for international automotive brands in Asia, the new Studio. it will bring together all the important functions carrying out the entire design process, from concept to production. Therefore it will be possible – the parent company promises – to create full-scale models of interior and exterior, as well as design colors and materials.

Jeremy Offer, Volvo’s Head of Design

“Our Shanghai design team – commented Jeremy Offer, Volvo’s head of global design – is a basic feature and an integral part of our global creative network. New headquarters and new technology contribute strengthen the collaboration between our three Design Studios around the worldenabling the continuous improvement of the unique Scandinavian design that distinguishes Volvo Cars”.