Kemal Curić (born February 17, 1978) is a Bosnian-German

automotive designer Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, Coach (vehicle), coaches, and vans. The functional design and development o ...

born in Sarajevo. Curić is widely known for his work at Ford, where he was responsible for numerous concept and production cars.

Biography

Curić was born in

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

, due to

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, he moved to

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in 1995. He graduated in Industrial design at Wuppertall University in 2003 and started to work for Ford in 2004, at first as an interior designer and from 2006 as an exterior designer on the 2011 Ford Focus program. Curić won an Interior Motives design award for student work in 2005. In 2009 and 2010 he was a guest speaker at the Automotive Design Conference in Zagreb. When his design proposal won an internal design competition for the S550 Mustang program in December 2010, he moved to Ford North America in Dearborn and became lead exterior designer for the Ford Mustang in January 2011. After production body design approval on the S550 Mustang in December 2012, he assumed the position Mustang Design Manager in January 2013.

Noted projects

* Ford Mustang (S550), exterior, (2012) *Ford Vertrek, concept, exterior (2010) *Ford Fusion/Mondeo, exterior (2010) *Ford Escape/Kuga (MK II) (2009) *Ford Focus (MK III) Station Wagon, exterior (2009) *Ford Focus (MK III) 5dr, exterior (2008) * *Ford Iosis X, concept, interior (2006) *Ford Iosis concept, interior (2005) *Ford KA (MK II), interior (2004) *Ford Fiesta, interior (2004)

References

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