Harald belker biography of williams family

Thirty years ago, German-born Harald Belker never imagined he would get the chance to work in the US. Today, we chatted to him from his home in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, about his illustrious career in industrial design. Harald's career is show stopping. From designing cars for high-end automotive brands, to creating iconic vehicles for some of Hollywood's biggest movies, his portfolio is the envy of designers around the world.

Having spent the first four years of his career in automotive design working for the likes of Porsche and Mercedes Benz, it wasn't long before the big screen beckoned, and California looked like it could become a permanent home. Harald's career in film design took off with a flying start, working on Joel Schumacher's film Batman and Robin.

Over the next eighteen years, Harald added more impressive strings to his bow, designing iconic vehicles for a roster of blockbusters including Armageddon , Transformers and Iron Man. These days, Harald's design work has become more physical. He now focuses most of his work on product design. One of his most recent successes is Cozmo: a gifted little robot created in his current role as Head Vehicle Designer at artificial intelligence start-up, Anki.

We spoke to Harald about his views on the transformation of an industry, from sketching the Batmobile, to 3D modeling real-life robots using cutting-edge tools like Modo :. You've had an incredible career story so far; do you have any particular highlights? I enjoy the futuristic element of design, so a highlight for me was designing the cars in Minority Report , and later the work I did for Tron: Legacy and Total Recall.

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I was often just designing things that destroy other things, but those particular films really stretched the envelope of what you could do, and let you design with the future in mind. And, of course, I got to design the Batmobile. It doesn't get much better than that!