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Martin Mangold  (* 13th January 1971 in Heidelberg) is a vehicle designer, artist and has acted in smaller film productions as stage designer and supporting actor. Among them is the short film Xperiment from 1997 with Sybille Heyen and Anian Zollner. The film was awarded the German Film and Media Review Mangold has influenced the design of many successful vehicles in the course of his professional career. Among them vehicles such as the BMW C1 (1999), the interior of the Jaguar S-Type (2000) and the Mercedes S-Class (2005). Today he is the managing director of Carzins GmbH.

Life


On July 1st, 1998 Martin Mangold started his career as a designer from the University of Arts Berlin bei der BMW-Group at the BMW Group  in Munich. Mangold worked there primarily in motorcycle design until June 15, 2000. One of his tasks here was to create different color variations for a model with a black drive train. Until then, the drive train and engine of BMW motorcycles was usually silver. So at his time at BMW a version in black of the engine, shaft and wheels was planned.

Among other things, he created renderings for the BMW C1 there. Martin Mangold found at that time that a black and yellow paint scheme for the BMW R1150 R was the most suitable. He was also responsible for the fact that this model got matt black details in addition to the yellow paint. This was to emphasize the "evil" character of the BMW R1150 R, which was completely unusual at that time, in addition to the driving characteristics.

In May 2000 the special model BMW R 1150 R was introduced. The number of pieces of this black and yellow "evil" BMW R 1150 R was limited  Mangold founded the streetfighter segment of BMW motorcycles with his even more aggressive designs, including double headlights.

From 16th June 2000 Mangold started his career at the automotive supplier HP Pelzer Group until 2004 Mangold was there, Head of Design & Corporate Identity. During this time he created a Jaguar S-Type interior design model for Jaguar in 2001, which strongly influenced the facelift of the Jaguar S-Type. In 2005, he also developed a Mercedes-Benz S-Class study for Mercedes Benz, from which many design elements could be found in subsequent vehicles. In 2004 Martin Mangold was promoted to the position of Head of Marketing & Design at the HP Pelzer Group and worked for this automotive supplier until April 30th, 2007. While still working as a senior designer for the HP Pelzer Group, he completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Zollverein School of management and design at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

From 2008 to 2011 Martin Mangold was a lecturer for product design at the Academy for Communication Mannheim and trained future vehicle designers.