{"id":23905,"date":"2017-07-21T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/?p=23905\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:52:35","slug":"cambiamenti-nel-design-team-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2017\/07\/cambiamenti-nel-design-team-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"FORD DESIGN, PERSONNEL CHANGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Ford names Amko Leenarts Director of design Ford of Europe.\u00a0In his new role, Leenarts is responsible for the exterior and interior design of vehicles, including small cars and crossover utility vehicles, and models for global markets. Leenarts will lead a team of more than 275 employees at Ford Design Studios in Merkenich, Germany, and at the company\u2019s Dunton Technical Centre in Essex, U.K. \u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting time for our Design teams. More and more, we\u2019re studying how our customers interact with their vehicles, and we\u2019re looking to create designs that can actually make people\u2019s lives better,\u201d Leenarts said. \u201cWe\u2019ll never stop trying to create designs that excite and help people to have an even more emotional connection with our brand.\u201d\u00a0Leenarts succeeds Joel Piaskowski, who is named director, Global Design, and will lead global car and crossover utility vehicle design from Ford Design Studios in Dearborn, U.S. Piaskowski led the Europe\u2019s design team from 2014, including the development of the all-new Fiesta and upscale Vignale portfolio.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":23896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 18:39:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}