Anders Warming (born 1972) is a Danish automotive designer who is the Director of Design at

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. He started his new job in July 2021. Formerly he has been the Chief Design Officer of

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. He was the chief of Design for the

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division of BMW, but resigned in July 2016. Before working at Mini, he was the chief of exterior design for BMW from 2007 to the end of 2010. After leaving Mini, he joined Borgward and later started his own design firm. In 2020, he was invited to draw Hengchi 1,2 and 4, which the cars going to be produced next year. Hengchi is the brand of China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Limited (a subsidiary of

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Biography

Education and early career

Warming studied at Art Centre College of Design Europe, Vevey, Switzerland and also the campus in Pasadena, California. He began his career at the BMW's DesignworksUSA studio in California in 1997. Warming also had a short tenure at

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from 2003 to 2005. He worked at various positions before returning to BMW headquarters in

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in 2005.

Career

Warming contributed to the exterior designs of the new second generation iteration of the

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. He also was known for his designs on the new BMW 5 series, Z4, and the new 6 series. He has worked under Chris Bangle when he was the chief of

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car design and also worked under Bangle's successor Adrian van Hooydonk. In spring of 2011 Anders Warming became the Chief of Design at BMW Mini. He then joined

as Chief Design Officer. As of May 2019, Anders Warming founded his own design studio, Warming Design, based in Munich, Germany. In 2021 he was appointed as the Director of Design at Rolls-Royce tarting July 2021 On 1 October 2024, he was appointed as the head of Designworks and BMW Group Advanced Design.

References

External links

''BMW Designers''
Anders Warming on an overview of automotive designers working for BMW. *https://warming-design.com - Warming Design {{DEFAULTSORT:Warming, Anders 1972 births Living people BMW designers Danish expatriates in Germany ArtCenter College of Design alumni