{"id":20249,"date":"2017-03-14T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/2017\/03\/alfonso-albaisa-succede-a-shiro-nakamura-il-design-infiniti-passa-a-karim-habib\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:39:53","slug":"alfons-albaisa-succeeds-shiro-nakamura-infiniti-design-goes-to-karim-habib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2017\/03\/alfons-albaisa-succeeds-shiro-nakamura-infiniti-design-goes-to-karim-habib\/","title":{"rendered":"ALFONSO ALBAISA SUCCEEDS SHIRO NAKAMURA, INFINITI DESIGN GOES TO KARIM HABIB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfonso Albaisa is the new Senior Vice President, Global Design, of Nissan, effective from April 1st, when he\u2019ll succeed Shiro Nakamura, retiring after 17 years at the helm of Nissan Design.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The new head of design at Infiniti \u2013 of which Albaisa is currently Corporate Vice President, Executive Design Director \u2013 will be Karim Habib, who suddenly left the direction of BMW brand design last January (to be replaced by formed Skoda chief designer Josef Kaban http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2017\/02\/bmw-group-design-team-personnel-changes\/<\/a>). An American with Cuban origins, Albaisa graduated from Pratt Institute in New York in 1988, to enter Nissan North America the same year. He has been in charge of Infiniti design since 2014.\u00a0Shiro Nakamura \u2013 67 next October, Japanese \u2013 graduated in Transportation Design from the Art Center College in Pasadena, California, in 1981, after a Bachelor of Art in Industrial Design from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. In 1974 he joined Isuzu, then worked for a few years at General Motors Advanced Design. In 1999 left the position of head of Isuzu Design to enter Nissan, where he was named Vice President, Design, in 2000. Since then he received more and more appointments, up to its current role of Senior Vice President, Global Design di Nissan, which he\u2019s leaving on March 31st<\/sup> next.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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