- Luc Donckerwolke
Luc Donckerwolke, (born
June 19 ,1965 ) is aBelgian car designer currently Design Director ofSEAT .Background
Donckerwolke was born in
Lima ,Peru and educated in various South American and African countries before studying industrial engineering in Brussels and transportation design inVevey ,Switzerland . [ 'Take a Seat Mr Donckerwolke', "4Car" 17/09/07, [http://www.channel4.com/4car/ft/feature/feature/11574/] , accessed 17 Sept 2007] .He has a residence in Peru and another in Brussels. His hobbies include motor racing, old cars, foreign cultures and learning languages. He speaks Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, Dutch and Swahili. [ 'Luc Donckerwolke, Head of Lamborghini Design, Curriculum Vitae', "Audi AG" 15/12/03, [http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/lamborghini_news/article_526.shtml] , accessed 17 Sept 2007]
Career
Donckerwolke began his design career in 1990 with
Peugeot inFrance . In 1992 he moved toIngolstadt for a 2 year stint atAudi Design. He spent 1994 to 1996 working at theŠkoda Design Center Mlada Boleslav in theCzech Republic , where he contributed to the 1996Škoda Octavia and 1999Škoda Fabia .After Škoda he returned to Audi responsible for concept development, operating out of Ingolstadt for one year and
Munich for another. It was during this time he worked on theAudi A4 Avant and the Audi R8 Le Mans Racer.He was head of design at
Lamborghini from 1998, where he was responsible for the 2001Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0, 2002Lamborghini Murciélago and 2004Lamborghini Gallardo , winning the 'Red Dot Award' in 2003 in recognition for his work on them. He also worked withWalter de'Silva to produce the 2006 Lamborghini Miura concept.In September 2005, Donckerwolke was appointed
SEAT Design Director overseeing the design of future SEAT models, replacing Walter de'Silva who was promoted to oversee design for the entire Audi Brand Group. He is tasked with progressing SEAT design from Walter de'Silva's directorship, which was characterised by confusing similarity between models, to a look that will bring increased brand awareness and sales to the beleaguered marque. His first visible contribution to SEAT is theSEAT Tribu concept, unveiled at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor ShowReferences
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