--- title: Marek Reichman · HICONIUM description: Marek Reichman in the HICONIUM register — 4 files carrying their credit. canonical_url: https://hiconium.dev/people/marek-reichman image: https://hiconium.dev/og/people/marek-reichman.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.dev/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.dev/) › [People](https://hiconium.dev/people) › Marek Reichman > On this page: [Closer to art](#closer-to-art) · [Shared Zagato carbon](#shared-zagato-carbon) · [Negative space](#negative-space) · [4 files carry this name](#4-files-carry-this-name) ![Марек Райхман, шеф-дизайнер марки Aston Martin во время визита в Москву, январь 2020 года](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/people/marek-reichman/portrait.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) People # Marek Reichman Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at Aston Martin Lagonda | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | Born | Sheffield, England, 1966 | | Nationality | British | Milhouse35, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The record British automotive designer who has led Aston Martin's design organisation since 2005 and is credited in this register for the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation, One-77, Valhalla and Vanquish Zagato. He is Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer. Born in Sheffield in 1966, Reichman took a first-class honours degree in industrial design at Teesside University in 1989 and an MDes in vehicle design at the Royal College of Art. He began at Rover Cars in 1991. In 1995 he moved to BMW Designworks in California as a senior designer; Aston Martin later said he led the overhaul of Land Rover design direction, the most significant result becoming the 2003 Range Rover. He joined Ford in 1999 as chief designer for Ford and Lincoln Mercury and rose to director of design for product at Ford North America. In 2005 he became Aston Martin's director of design. In December 2007 he opened a purpose-built timber studio at Gaydon, which received a RIBA Award the next May. Teesside University later recorded that over 17 years he grew the design team from four people to more than 100. The programme that defined the studio was the One-77, previewed at Paris in 2008 and shown complete at Villa d'Este in 2009, where it won the design award. He wrote that the aim was a car closer to art than the automobile. After it the studio issued the DBS, Rapide, Vanquish and DB11. For the 2016 Vanquish Zagato Concept his team worked with Andrea Zagato; on the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation he said he had been involved in shaping the new-build car. Aston Martin names him Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer, responsible for design developments. The register credits him as Design director for the One-77, Chief Creative Officer for the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation and Vanquish Zagato, and Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer for Valhalla. ABC News still used that title in October 2025, as did Car Design News in March 2026. Teesside awarded an honorary doctorate in 2011. ### Closer to art On the One-77 he said the aim was a car closer to art than the automobile. A Multimatic carbon monocoque carries a hand-formed aluminium body around a front-mid V12. He later said six cylinders of that engine sit in the cabin with you. ### Shared Zagato carbon Aston Martin said its design team, led by Reichman, worked with Andrea Zagato's Milan studio on the Vanquish Zagato. Large carbon panels reduced the split lines. The visor glass and double-bubble roof sit on a Vanquish S platform engineered at Gaydon. ### Negative space He told ABC News in 2025 that Valhalla is not classically designed as an Aston Martin: there is probably more negative space than positive space, so the airflow can be seen. Auto&Design names Ondrej Jirec for the exterior, under Reichman's organisation. The stations 1. 1991–1995 Rover Cars Designer 2. 1995–1999 BMW Designworks Senior Designer 3. 1999–2005 Ford Motor Company Chief Designer, Ford and Lincoln Mercury, later Director of Design for Product, Ford North America 4. 2005– Aston Martin Lagonda Director of Design, later Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer The house [![Aston Martin](https://hiconium.dev/images/marques/full/astonmartin.svg)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/astonmartin) Credited through Aston Martin. In the register ## 4 files carry this name - [Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation Chief Creative Officer · Aston Martin In the July 2020 completion release he said he had been involved in the shaping of the first new DB5 in more than half a century. The aluminium body and mild-steel chassis follow Touring Superleggera's original; Chris Corbould's EON team supplied the gadgets. 2020–2022 €3.5M 2020–2022 €3.5M Rating 89.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/astonmartin/db5-goldfinger-continuation) - [Aston Martin One-77 Design director · Aston Martin As director of design he set the published aim as a car closer to art than the automobile and led the team that clothed a Multimatic carbon monocoque in hand-formed aluminium around a front-mid V12. He did not engineer the Cosworth-developed engine. 2009–2012 €2.2M 2009–2012 €2.2M Rating 93.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/astonmartin/one-77) - [Aston Martin Valhalla Executive vice president and chief creative officer · Aston Martin As EVP and CCO he led the design organisation through the mid-engine programme and described the production car's excess of negative space. Auto&Design names Ondrej Jirec for the seven-year exterior and Miles Nürnberger and Sam Holgate as the designers reporting to him. 2024– €900k 2024– €900k Rating 87.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/astonmartin/valhalla) - [Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Chief Creative Officer · Aston Martin Aston Martin said the 2016 Villa d'Este concept was designed by its team led by Reichman with Andrea Zagato's Milan studio. Engineering stayed at Gaydon. The four-body production family — Coupé, Volante, Speedster, Shooting Brake — followed that shared design. 2016–2018 €750k 2016–2018 €750k Rating 86.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/astonmartin/vanquish-zagato) The files above are the register's own record of this name. [The people index](https://hiconium.dev/people) holds everyone the register credits. In their words > “Design has to change the visual landscape but represent, wholeheartedly, the brand.” Marek Reichman · Aston Martin press release, 7 February 2018 Sources - [astonmartin.com](https://www.astonmartin.com/en/our-world/news/2017/11/9/marek-reichman-executive-vice-president-and-chief-creative-officer-aston-martin-lagonda) - [media.astonmartin.com](https://media.astonmartin.com/marek-reichman-executive-vice-president-and-chief-creative-officer-aston-martin-lagonda-77503/?lang=eng) - [tees.ac.uk](https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/news/pressreleases_story.cfm?story_id=8370) - [media.astonmartin.com](https://media.astonmartin.com/aston-martin-chief-creative-officer-marek-reichman-appointed-to-prestigious-designbest-hall-of-fame/?lang=eng) - [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Reichman) - [amht.org.uk](https://amht.org.uk/trustee/marek-reichman/) - [amht.org.uk](https://amht.org.uk/podcast/ep-50-in-conversation-with-marek-reichman-my-first-aml-era-with-dr-bez/) - [theceomagazine.com](https://www.theceomagazine.com/lifestyle/automotive/aston-martin-marek-reichman/) - [autoweek.com](https://www.autoweek.com/news/a1846266/zagato-and-aston-pen-another-stunner-villa-deste/) - [cardesignnews.com](https://www.cardesignnews.com/cars/marek-reichman-on-designing-a-midengined-aston-martin/2633801) - [designboom.com](https://www.designboom.com/technology/marek-reichman-db12-goldfinger-aston-martin-cars-james-bond-007-films-interview-10-14-2024/) - [media.astonmartin.com](https://media.astonmartin.com/making-history-the-first-new-db5-in-more-than-50-years-rolls-off-the-line-as-inaugural-aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-continuation-car-is-completed) - [abcnews.com](https://abcnews.com/Business/aston-martins-chief-designer-talks-ai-beautiful-brand/story?id=126426656) - [cardesignnews.com](https://www.cardesignnews.com/designers/marek-reichman-you-dont-need-an-aston-martin-you-desire-one-and-thats-my-job/445890) - [i-m-magazine.com](https://i-m-magazine.com/business/marek-reichman/) - [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_One-77) - [autodesignmagazine.com](https://autodesignmagazine.com/en/2025/11/aston-martin-valhalla-pietre-angolari-nelle-alte-prestazioni/) - [nowness.com](https://www.nowness.com/story/aston-martin-one-77-art-of-speed) - [tomorrowstechnician.com](https://www.tomorrowstechnician.com/aston-martin-unveils-vanquish-zagato-concept/) - [astonmartins.com](https://astonmartins.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/astonmartin_brochure_one-77_english.pdf)