Huey Lee has the enviable place of not solely residing within the sunshine state, but in addition working for a design outpost that has constructed a fame for creating various blue-sky ideas during the last 20 years.

Lee’s been with Mercedes-Benz since he graduated from the distinguished Artwork Middle School of Design over a decade in the past. He’s answerable for the F800 idea in addition to the second technology CLS, a challenge which took him to Germany to finish, inflicting him to overlook the beginning of his first youngster.

Having risen via the ranks, and following within the footsteps of world design boss Gorden Wagener, Lee went to work on devising proposals for the long run Mercedes-Benz design language when he turned Inventive Director for the Mercedes-Benz Superior Design of North America, Daimler’s first design studio exterior Germany, in 2010. He was appointed to the position when his predecessor, Joel Piaskowski, left the corporate after little greater than a 12 months into the position.

Situated in Carlsbad, California, the Superior Design studio — one among 5 operated by Daimler globally — incorporates design enter for superior and manufacturing car proposals, drawing inspiration from Southern California’s sturdy automobile tradition and its inventive, numerous and trendsetting atmosphere. Mercedes’ US superior design outpost was first established in 1990 in Irvine, California, however moved to Carlsbad in 2008. The 34,000 sq-ft facility options 5 full-size plates, a full-service machine store, two milling machines, a paint store, a big outside viewing space and employs roughly 25 folks.

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