| 词条 | Pinky Lai |
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| name = Pinky Lai | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|03|20}} | birth_place = British Hong Kong | nationality = | education = Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (ISIA) of RomeRoyal College of Art of London | occupation = Automotive designer | employer = Ford of Europe (1980–1983) BMW (1984–1988) Porsche (1989–2014) | years_active= 1980–2014 | known_for = | predecessor = | successor = }} Pinky Lai (born 20 March 1951), Chinese name 賴平, is an automotive designer. Lai is noted for his design work at Ford, BMW and Porsche AG. During Lai's tenure at from January 1989 until his retirement in 2014, he was chief designer responsible for the exterior designs of 996 series of the Porsche 911 as well as both the Porsche 987 Boxster and Cayman. BackgroundBorn and raised in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, Lai moved to Rome in 1972, where he studied and received a BA in Industrial Design at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche. After seeing an opening for car designer at Ford of Germany, in 1978 Lai received a two-year full scholarship for master's degree Study on transportation design at the RCA Royal College of Art in London. In the Spring of 1980, he received the John Ogier Memorial Design Bursary of the Royal Society of Arts. CareerAfter his graduation from RCA in 1980,[1] he started working for the Fordwerke in Cologne, Germany. In 1982/83 he went on a joint venture project to work in Ghia Studios (Italy) and Mazda in Japan where he worked on a specialty car program as a result of winning the internal competition. Overall he worked on the Sierra, Fiesta, Escort and Scorpio projects. After returning to Germany he joined BMW in 1984 as a senior designer. He won the Design of E36 program (the BMW 3 Series). In 1989, he was invited by the president of R&D of Porsche AG to join the design team (Porsche Styling) as studio chief. Since then, he has worked on all the models from the factory, from the Boxster to the Cayman including the revolutionary 996, the first major departure from Ferdinand Alexander "Butzi" Porsche's original design for the 911 in four decades. Between 1992 and 1995, every Saturday, he taught Design Sketching at the Art Center College of Design in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. Since 2004, he was appointed the Chief Designer for all external projects at Style Porsche, handling all Transportation Design for clients from Japan, Korea, China and all over Europe. Projects ranging from High Performance motor bike design to design face-lifting of an over 300 meters long cruise liner, and very much everything in between that moves. Car design awards
Speech eventsInvitations as key-note speaker and distinguished speaker:
Design consultancy (since 2013)
References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/motoring/article/1083123/drawn-power-hong-kongs-porsche-designer-pinky-lai | title=Drawn to the power: Hong Kong's Porsche designer Pinky Lai | accessdate=2 May 2016}} External links
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