Mark Lloyd (car designer)

Mark Lloyd is a British car designer, employed at Citroen's Centre de Creation as Programme Director. He was awarded the Sturmey award for innovation by Autocar magazine in 2015.[1]

Education

Lloyd graduated from University of Cambridge, and then went to Royal College of Art for Transport Design then and Imperial College for Industrial Design Engineering.[2]

Career

Lloyds started his career at Jaguar where he worked for three years[3] including on the XJ220,[4] and then joined PSA Group in 1989 as an exterior designer. He then moved to Head of concept cars in 1999 and designed C6 Lignage, Osmose, C-Crosser, C-Airdream, C-Airlounge, C-Airplay and the C-Sportlounge.

He became head of the design team in 2005 and was appointed Range Manager for future programmes of the Citroën marque in 2009 and more recently became programme director of Citroen's Centre de Creation in Paris and was responsible for the DS 3.

Production designs

  • Citroen Xsara Picasso (exterior)
  • Citroen C4 Cactus
  • DS 3

References

  1. Moss, Darren (19 May 2015). "Citroën's Mark Lloyd wins Autocar's Sturmey Award for 2015". Autocar. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. Baker, Erin (21 January 2015). "Meet the panel: Mark Lloyd". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. "Citroën creates "DS line" styling department". Car Body Design. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  4. "C4 Cactus Designer Mark Lloyd Presented Autocar's Sturmey Award". Citroen. 19 May 2015. Missing or empty |url= (help)
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