Christian Ell

Designing and organizing refit and maintenance projects for luxurios river cruise vessel and private leisure craft. Interior Operator for one of our treasured clients, the A-Rosa shipping company. Conception, design and illustration of high quality interior and furniture for various premium markets (retail, vessels, private homes, etc.).

To gain some real life experience in sales I became regional representative of Freiwild, the start up brand for refreshment created by friends of mine. Selling to distributors as well as promoting our soft drinks to customers in clubs, at bars and special events to popularise our brand and its products.

Designing exterior and interior for luxurios power- and sailing yachts ranging from 10 to 110 meters. Personal focus on production powerboats, including design management, research, benchmarking, conception. CAD-drawing, ideation and sketching, rendering, 3-D modelling. Exterior and interior styling and detailing. Monitoring design realisation/build process and project/office management. Also Aircraft interior design and others.

Next to the production-orientated assessment I became responsible for the conception and preliminary design of our departments new intranet website and some brochures to rise our departments profile within FIZ and the BMW Group. I learned a lot regarding the company´s visual corporate identity guidance and acquired some major management skills, as I got invited to all the departments professional trainings and relevant meetings, either being actively involved or attending as a guest.

Internship at TK 55 - the former management department for sheet metal forming at BMW´s FIZ . Production-orientated assessment and illustration of new exterior design details and surfaces vs. toolmaking possibilities and limitations. The intention was to figure out and enable realisation of intended new car body designs of the Chris Bangle era with some traditional and innovative methods of sheet metal forming. Interface in between design department and sheet forming department.

Internship with orthopaedic technicians to gain experience in composites and plastics prior to study design. Building prostheses with glass/carbon fibre and epoxy resin, thermoforming, powder coating, modelling rigid foam and so on.

Internship in joinery, lock smithery, light furnishing department, paint shop and design office to gain and enhance my skills for mockup building and design. Important step prior to studying industrial or transportation design.

Assembling the famous and innovative first Mercedes class A at the production line in Rastatt, Germany.