Kemal Curić

Kemal Curić
Born
Kemal Curić

(1978-02-17) February 17, 1978 (age 46)
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
NationalityGerman, Bosnian
OccupationAutomobile designer

Kemal Curić (born February 17, 1978) is a Bosnian-German automobile designer born in Sarajevo. Curić is widely known for his work at Ford, where he was responsible for numerous concept and production cars.[1][2]

Biography

Curić was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, due to war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he moved to Dortmund, Germany 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.[3][4][5][6][7]

Noted projects

2007 Ford Kuga
  • 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

  1. ^ "Car design community. Interview". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  2. ^ Car Design13 May 2011. Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Kemal Curić".
  4. ^ "Interior Motives Awards 2007 - Car Body Design".
  5. ^ "ekapija.ba - Kemal Curic: Bosnian shaking up the auto industry". www.ekapija.ba. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
  6. ^ "Auto(r) ADC'09 – Kemal Curić | Designeast.eu - Design in Central and Eastern Europe". Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  7. ^ "2012 Ford Escape/Kuga keeps its name | SUV Tracker". Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2011-07-15.