The head of design at Skoda, Jens Manske will leave the Czech car maker to move the VW Group Design Department on 1 February, 2008 where his future assignment remains unknown. Under his leadership, Skoda design team styled the new Superb and some future models. He will be succeeded by a young designer Jozef Kaban.
Born in Slovakia in 1973, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts & Design in Bratislava with a degree in Product And Industrial Design. He was discovered by Hartmut Warkuss during a design contest organised by Skoda and was offered a job as a Junior/Assistant Designer, later as an Exterior Designer. in 1997 he received a Master of Art at the Royal College of Art and joined Volkswagen. He designed the exterior styling of the 1999 EB 18.4 “Veyron“ concept car and worked on various models until 2003 when Hartmut Warkuss retired. Jozef Kaban moved to Ingolstadt where he worked on several projects before becoming Head of the AUDI AG Exterior Design Centre.
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