Interior Motives Design Awards 2010

Callum has overall responsibility for the design of all cars and trucks designed in Ford’s North and South America studios, and he also will guide the design of Lincoln and Mercury products.
Since 2006, Callum has been responsible for implementing the design strategy and execution involving all Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars and car-based crossovers. He has overseen the design of the 2010 Taurus and directed the teams that developed the 2010 Mustang, Fusion and Mercury Milan designs.
Previously, Callum was head of Mazda’s worldwide design. While there, he brought to life a new generation of Mazda vehicles, including the iconic MX-5 and the CX-7 crossover, along with the spirited lineup of Mazda 2, Mazda3, Mazda5 and Mazda6.
He joined Ford in 1995, where he designed key North American products, including the 2000 Taurus and production vehicles such as the last generation of Super Duty pickups.
His international design career started in 1982, when he began working for Chrysler Corp. UK and then Peugeot-Citroen PSA on passenger and commercial vehicles. After six years, he joined Ghia Spa as a consultant designer. His work included the Ghia Via concept vehicle in 1989, leading Ghia’s design consultancy to Jaguar, and the Aston martin Lagonda Vignale concept.
Born in 1958, Callum graduated from Napier University in Edinburgh with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design. He also holds a master’s degree in transportation design from the Royal College of Art in London.

Double Du graduated from Tsinghua university in 1996, previous experience include CATARC (China Automotive Technology & Research Center), Motorola North Asia CXD (consumer experience design ) GM PATAC and YULONG COOLPAD .

Dutch-born vehicle designer and Royal College of Art graduate Amko Leenarts has headed up interior design at Peugeot since 2008. Prior to this role, he gained experience at sister company Citroën by leading the interior design of the 207 supermini, and was also responsible for the interior of the 908 RC concept unveiled by Peugeot at the 2006 Paris Motor Show.

Wolfgang Müller-Pietralla studied biology at the University of Hanover, focusing on models and simulations of ecologic systems.
In 1992 he joined Volkswagen where he introduced a sustainable environmental management system. During the EXPO 2000, Mr. Müller-Pietralla was Volkswagen's project manager and stage-managed both the Autostadt and the rain-forest house. Since 2003 he is head of Volkswagen's future affairs department within the Volkswagen Group Research, which is analyzing future developments and deducting future mobility and vehicle concepts.
From April 2009 on Mr.Müller-Pietralla is visiting professor at the Braunschweig University of Art.

Robin started his design career at Jaguar Cars and joined Rolls-Royce and Bentley in 1995.
Page designed the interior for the Continental GT, GT Convertible and Continental Flying Spur, launching a new era for Bentley. Leading the Interior Design team at Bentley he also created the cabin for the Azure, Brooklands, Supersports and the New Bentley Mulsanne.

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956.
Graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle 1978-79.
Internship Ford Design Center, Dearborn, Michigan, 1978.
Moved to Italy in 1979.
Designer Ghia in 1984.
Designer Fiat Design Center in 1986.
Director of Design Lancia-Fiat 1996 to 2005.
Director Bertone 2009.

Romanian-born Romulus Rost joined Audi in 1988; in 1994, he transferred to the company's Design Centre in California.
Rost was promoted to head of Audi's Design Studio in Munich in 1997. He is best known for the interior of the Audi TT coupe, with its "mould-breaking art deco" forms.
In 2002, Rost led the interior car division and product design division at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg. He joined Volkswagen Design Centre Potsdam in 2005.

Having contributed to Interior Motives almost since its inception in 2002, Euan Sey took over the role of Editor in 2006 and played a key role in developing Car Design News when it joined the Ultima Media portfolio in 2008. Euan has been writing about car design for over a decade and has had articles published in Car, Auto Express, Top Gear, Intersection, Autocar, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent. He is chair of the Interior Motives Design Awards judging panel.

German-born designer Andreas Stump graduated from Pforzheim University in 1995. After that, a spell at Volkswagen Design saw him design the interior of the VW Touareg and SEAT Ibiza, before a move to Citroen in 2001 gave him the opportunity to lead the interior design of key vehicles such as the C-Airdream concept, the newly launched C3 Picasso and the acclaimed GTbyCitroen concept. He has been Head of Citroen Interior Advanced Design since 2009.

Tony Williams is design director of SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre. After gaining a MA in Automotive Design and BA (Hons) Transport Design from Coventry University, England, he joined Mitsubishi Europe Design in Trebur, Germany as a designer, working on exteriors and interiors, including periods spent in Japan. Then he joined MG Rover Group Design centre as UK Design Manager leading exterior and interior design projects including the MG TF and managing the design studio. After MG Rover he initially joined Ricardo 2010 Ltd, as Chief Designer but when that company became part of SAIC Motor Technical, he became UK Design Director working alongside a Shanghai based Design Director. For SAIC he has developed new vehicles for MG and Roewe brands including responsibility for the Roewe 550's design development.