Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS (2019)
My first published project as an Exterior Designer at Mercedes-Benz, a concept car scheduled for the 2019 Frankfurt Auto Show (IAA).
I was lucky to win the internal competition with my entry which made me the responsible designer for the complete exterior of the car.
Within a timeframe of 10 months, the design process went from conceptual sketches, a pre-study quarterscale-model and a full-scale clay model over to the fully driveable final car.
Above: Early conceptual pre-study model. The flexible bodyside was soon abandoned, but the colour-split made it to the final model. Once separating the two "shells", it now served the purpose of visually structuring the fluid volumes and making the seamless transition from DLO to body possible.
The wrapped/painted full-scale clay model with a wall of my sketches from different stages of the project. The initial gold-black colour combo was scrapped for a more classic "alubeam"-silver during the process.
The finished car in the Sindelfingen studio, August 2019
Outdoor photoshoot, August 2019
Film footage shot in the black forest. I personally feel the car needs to be in motion for the surfaces to truly come alive.
Design is always team work. Big thanks to all the talented people who made this project so amazing:
Design Management: Sylvain Wehnert, Steffen Köhl
CAD-Modelling: Stepan Jirka
Clay Modelling: Tom Gajdos, Yannik Breitmayer, Markus Frank
Engineering / Project Management: Andrej Ruckhaberle, Volker Meyer
Interior Design: Matthias Gottwald, Peter Balko, Henryk Strojwasiewicz
Hololens: Patrick Guth, Frederic Seemann
CMF: Anna Greif
UI/UX: Arthur Gängler, Felix Drössler, Bärbel Rest
Above: The Vision EQS on its current World Tour in Japan (October 2019).
Above: Outdoor Photoshoot at Los Angeles, CA, USA (January 2020).
Fantastic photos by Oskar Bakke (www.oskarbakke.com) / Retuscheriet (www.retuscheriet.se)
Please find all specs and official information at https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/eq/
All photos (except stated otherwise) © Daimler AG
