Kemal curic biography of michael

With the relationship between Lincoln and the college firmly in place, Lincoln global design director Kemal Curic imagined a project that in.

Curic was born in Sarajevo and grew up in Croatia, and also Germany where he later studied industrial design....

At 42, he’s already designed a few American classics, including the 2015 Ford Mustang.

Growing up in the Yugoslavian city of Sarajevo during the tumultuous 1980s, the young Kemal Curic was obsessed with cars – especially American cars, particularly the Ford Mustang and Lincoln Continental.

“For me, the Mustang was the American superhero, with fantastic proportions and a V-8 that shook the ground,” he recalls.

“And in every Hollywood movie, you would see this luxurious, quite elegant Continental. For me, those two vehicles represented everything America stood for and the entire world aspired to.”

Curic eventually left Eastern Europe to become a car designer.

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Curic was born in Sarajevo and grew up in Croatia, and also Germany where he later studied industrial design.

Curić started successful career as designer in Ford Europe only a decade ago and already designed exteriors of Vertrek, Kuga Mk II, Focus Mk III.

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After several years working in Germany on European market vehicles, he moved to Dearborn, Michigan, in 2010. And wouldn’t you know it? He played a leading role in the much-lauded overhaul of the Ford Mustang in 2015 and the clever reboot of the Lincoln Continental in 2017.

Curic then landed a plum assignment as the chief de