Anders Warming

Anders Warming
Born 1972
Nationality Danes
Citizenship Denmark
Education Art Centre College of Design Europe, Vevey, Switzerland
Occupation Exterior car design
Known for Automotive Design

Anders Warming (born 1972)[1] is a Danish automotive designer currently Chief Design Officer of Borgward.[2] He was the chief of Design for the Mini division of BMW, but resigned in July 2016. Many 1st and 2nd Generation Mini owners disliked his styling approach for the third generation cars. The most often criticized design element was the front end, something many people called a 'fish mouth' due to its large oval grille and lip-like black plastic trim. Before working at MINI, he was recently the chief of exterior design for BMW from 2007 to the end of 2010.

Biography

Education and early career

Warming studied at Art Centre College of Design Europe, Vevey, Switzerland and also the campus in Pasadena, California.[1] He began his career at the BMW's DesignworksUSA studio in California in 1997.[3]

Warming also had a short tenure at Volkswagen from 2003 to 2005.[4]

He worked at various positions before returning to BMW headquarters in Munich in 2005.[3]

Career

Warming contributed to the exterior designs of the new second generation iteration of the BMW X3.[5] He also was known for his designs on the new BMW 5 series, Z4,[6] and the new 6 series.[5] [7]

He has worked under Chris Bangle when he was the chief of BMW car design and now works under Adrian van Hooydonk. In spring of 2011 Anders Warming became the Chief of Design at BMW Mini.

He then joined Borgward as Chief Design Officer.

References

  1. 1 2 "BMW designers before the WWII, the Dawn of the Automotive Design - Classic Period". BMWism.com.
  2. ↑ "BMW Chief Designer Karim Habib Leaves – Third Top Design Official To Leave In 10 Months | Carlist.my - Malaysia's No.1 Car Site". Carlist.my - Malaysia's No.1 Car Site. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  3. 1 2 Levent OZLER (December 1, 2010). "Anders Warming to Head MINI Design". Dexigner.
  4. ↑ Evan Mccausland (December 1, 2010). "BMW 6 Series Designer Anders Warming Named Mini Design Chief - Motor Trend". motortrend.com.
  5. 1 2 "Anders Warming will be new MINI Head of Design". BMW Group. FTM Studio S.r.L. 2 December 2010.
  6. ↑ "BMW Car Designers throughout history". BMWism.com. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
  7. ↑ Douglas A. Bolduc (1 December 2010). "Mini names BMW's Warming to succeed Hildebrand as design chief".
  • BMW Designers Anders Warming on an overview of automotive designers working for BMW.
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