According to Autoblog, Chris Bangle, the controversial one-time head of BMW design, has joined forces with Samsung to oversee the pattern of notebooks and phones. The talented American designer left BMW back in 2009 after 17 years, and after ii years of non-compete agreement and focusing on educational activity, he returns to industrial design.

After leaving BMW, Bangle has also setup his ain firm, Chris Bangle and Associates, and has been working on designing yachts and electronics.

The Southward Korea-based Samsung says Bangle is operating as an outside influence on the design of their phones and laptops and will all the same piece of work on his ain projects outside of the company.

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"This is an investment to secure a famous global designer in order to make our designs more luxurious," said a senior Samsung official. "We will set upward a design research eye for Bangle in a European location, such every bit Italy, and have virtually 10 researchers from Samsung work with him."

Hyundai Motor was also known to exist aggressively trying to recruit Bangle equally its new head of design. But Bangle declined the offering. There was speculation that Hyundai was not able to lucifer a reported $8.ix meg salary required to snag Bangle.

Although details have not been officially announced, it is said that Bangle will receive several 1000000 dollars from Samsung Electronics and will hold the rank of one of the company's presidents.

[Source: JoongangDaily ]