{"id":36502,"date":"2019-08-26T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/?p=36502"},"modified":"2019-08-26T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:37:10","slug":"taisuke-nakamura-new-head-of-infiniti-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2019\/08\/taisuke-nakamura-new-head-of-infiniti-design\/","title":{"rendered":"TAISUKE NAKAMURA NEW HEAD OF INFINITI DESIGN"},"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-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-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>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.<br \/>\nNakamura is currently responsible for global design strategy, and concept car and production vehicle design.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2019\/01\/infiniti-qx-inspiration-a-new-design-language\/\">QX Inspiration<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2018\/08\/infiniti-la-prima-concept\/\">Prototype 10<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2019\/04\/infiniti-qs-sport-sedan-concept\/\"> Qs Inspiration<\/a>, among many other vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 18:08:53","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\/36502","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=36502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}