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INTRIGUE BY DESIGN; Euro-design churn swirls around Pininfarina, BMW.(News)(Ken Okuyama)
Byline: MATT DAVIS, BOB GRITZINGER
As we await the 2004 Geneva motor show at the start of March, what's happening in the tightknit world of car design may prove the most interesting show news of all.
Prominent automotive designer Ken Okuyama is leaving his position as head of Art Center College of Design's prestigious Transportation Design Studio in Pasadena, California, to return to his former employer, Pininfarina. Art Center officials confirm that Okuyama will be leaving his post in August to take a position at the company where he previously served as lead designer on projects such as the Pininfarina Rossa, Ferrari Enzo and Maserati Quattroporte, among others. Okuyama had left Turin, Italy, to take the California job in August 2000.
Pininfarina is saying only that there are three candidates for this enhanced design director post, that Okuyama is one of these and that a final decision will be made next week. We hear, however, that by this ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, INTRIGUE BY DESIGN; Euro-design churn swirls around Pininfarina,...