Domagoj Dukec is transferring from BMW to Rolls-Royce to take over as director of design from Anders Warming, as a part of a dramatic overhaul of the BMW Group’s design operations.
Warming has steered Rolls-Royce’s design division for 3 years, having beforehand labored underneath Chris Bangle at BMW after which been appointed chief of design at Mini.
Automobiles launched underneath his stewardship embrace the electrical Spectre, the refreshed Cullinan and Phantom and the £20 million Droptail.
Warming is transferring to turn into head of the BMW Group’s world Designworks operation, which takes a extra overarching view of future mobility throughout the corporate’s whole portfolio.
Warming’s and Dukec’s new roles are amongst a number of important adjustments for BMW Group Design, with director Adrian van Hooydonk rearranging the groups “to fulfill altering calls for for future-oriented design”.
Ex-Polestar designer Maximillian Missoni, who has overseen the styling of every of the Swedish model’s manufacturing EVs and ideas, has been employed to guide the design of higher mid-size and luxury-class BMW fashions, together with these from the lately acquired Alpina model.
Mini head designer Oliver Heilmer, in the meantime, will take over the design of the smaller and mid-size BMW vehicles, together with from the M efficiency division. He will probably be changed at Mini by Holger Hampf.
Rolls-Royce CEO Chris Brownridge hailed the “substantial and lasting” affect that Warming has had on the model and mentioned “his wealth of expertise and creativity have instructed our future aesthetic path”.
Dukec is properly often called the long-time design chief at BMW, underneath whose stewardship the model has utterly overhauled the look of its vehicles, most notably embracing substantial new grilles for all its vehicles – a transfer that Dukec has acknowledged as “polarising” however “brand-shaping”.
He has been at BMW for greater than 14 years and has served in varied high-ranking positions – together with as design director for the BMW i electrified sub-brand after which in the identical position for the M efficiency division.