Interview with Huey Lee, Creative Director, Mercedes-Benz

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Not blaming him, but whoever designed and approved the MB's latest design language should be hung up.

Mercedes Benz aesthetics are so crude and garish. No sense of positive and negative space, no leading the eye, no use of golden ratio. Just a gypsy design of things thrown together without thought. Like the analog clock in the middle of the dashboard. Or design cues thrown into the design in isolation. A curve or a line lying in a sea of nothing. No overall congruence. Just pointless and garish.

The beauty in a Merc is like the beauty of a gold toilet. As opposed to something like the tensile structure design on a BMW or Ferrari.

The design of a Merc just looks like a nondescript Japanese/Asian car with no quality aesthetics. It’s valuable because of the brand name, not the brand design.

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Asian guy working as a Benz designer ... he must be beyond proud

Can one be a car designer with Honours in Industrial design ? I'm a South African grad and there isnt single transportation design school in Africa but I had to teach my self growing up and mixing both industrial design elements and transportation design elements into the concept ideation of vehicles I design.

I'm here Australia to get money for my dream and still have further way to go
I'll never ever give up on my dream
Even though i'm a just foreigner who's waiting to get a job for meat factory now
Someday i'll sit in the plane to German and study freely, hardly
Oneday i will be a designer like you
And Respect you

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the only cohesive car design today is Tesla, everything else is a collective made scattered defecation of metoo wanna-bees

Great interview...
But what’s with the song in the background?
“Smoke a lot of weed smoke a lot of weed....”
Wtf!!!!!!

How can i contact with Huey Lee?

the concept of a biome Mercedes! it's a stolen idea - this prototype was created by another designer in 2001!
And the company Mercedes only added an extended nose!
it's ugly to steal ideas from other designers and not pay them!

people don't get appreciated the beauty of this amazing job, they only bought a new amazing car, but they don't know that people as Huey Lee make a lot of sketches to get into the place he are working at. so huey lee amazing history.

people they think this career is a non-necessary but mabe you have a car in your garage so if there is no car designer your car will look like a box so feel thankfull about this people how puts hours including me, is as same as difficult as a football or basketball player, they have to make thousands and thousands of sketches to be in that company you only work and buy an amazing Mercedes benz Gt concept. look more fore information and judge less.

SadlyI think he is destroying Mercedes. Yes I agree car design needs to move on but he is designing out the beauty and robust quality of the brand.

is it really difficult to get a job in automotive design after you finish university. i need help, because i want to do automotive design at uni

Personally the idea of autonomous driving is an interesting idea as an option but not fully, get a serious computer error with no means to take control could lead to someone having a very bad day!...

if the younger generation isn't interested in cars ... maybe you should change the concept and rethink mobility

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With all due respect, these cars look fucking ridiculous. They're interesting simply as studies in shape and form, but I would never want to see anything like this on the road. A car needs to at least look like a car – not a vacuum cleaner.

Really nice video. What's the name of the song during minute 8?

Only just stumbled across this channel, has some great interviews. This and the Daniel Simon segments are especially great!

Back design of the 2015 Cls C &  Cla car is bad . 2008 C class better

1000000000000 thnx for this video!