Taisuke Nakamura is the new head of Infiniti Design. Nakamura, who reports to Alfonso Albaisa, SVP Nissan Global Design, has served as Program Design Director of Infiniti and contributed to brand design since 2018. Karim Habib, current head of design, is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
Nakamura is currently responsible for global design strategy, and concept car and production vehicle design.
He joined Nissan in 1993 after graduating from Kyoto City University of Arts with a B.A. in Product Design. He has worked on many Nissan and Infiniti vehicles and worked at Nissan Design Europe in London as a design manager. He is responsible for the design of iconic EV concepts such as QX Inspiration, Prototype 10 and Qs Inspiration, among many other vehicles.
