Daniel OexlerContact

Advanced Design & Visual Storytelling

Curriculum Vitae

Transportation designer in advanced design with a focus on visual storytelling. Fourteen years of experience in automotive imagery — from sports cars and motorsport through commercial vehicles to the cabin world of aviation. My focus: translating brand strategy into visual worlds — from the first idea through design and 3D to the visual language and story that ties it all together.

Experience

  1. 11.2022 – today

    Diehl Aviation · Laupheim

    Industrial Designer — Advanced Design

    Developing aircraft cabins and advanced design concepts, from the first idea to the CAD model. Directing model making and external agencies, and developing visual lead ideas and design stories for international trade fair appearances. Conceiving and running design thinking processes for various airlines.

  2. 02.2022 – 10.2022

    Freelance Transportation Designer

    Researcher and Transportation Designer

    Design proposals for Daimler Trucks as part of a design pitch with Silberform AG; research and interior concepts for BMW AG.

  3. 02.2019 – 01.2022

    Designmanufacture & Joysonquin Automotive Systems · Rutesheim

    Advanced Transportation Designer

    CAD and design support for exterior and interior components; full design development of two commercial vehicles.

  4. 06.2019 – 01.2020

    ORCA — Oldtimer Racecar Restoration · Eberdingen

    Transportation CAD Designer

    CAD data and visualisations of a Porsche 906 Le Mans.

  5. 03.2019 – 06.2019

    Schweizer Design Consulting GmbH · Stuttgart

    Transportation CAD Designer

    CAD support for exterior and interior design variants.

  6. 08.2018 – 02.2019

    Form3 Designstudios · Althengstett

    Transportation Designer

    Concepts and CAD support for exterior and interior design variants, plus client presentations.

  7. 09.2016 – 03.2017

    Porsche · Weissach

    Internship — Style Interior

  8. 05.2015 – 11.2015

    whiteID GmbH & Co. KG · Schorndorf

    Freelance project in product design

  9. 04.2014 – 10.2014

    Studio F. A. Porsche Design GmbH · Zell am See

    Internship — Transportation & Product Design

  10. 10.2013 – 04.2014

    Design Storz GmbH · Zell am See

    Internship — Transportation Design

  11. 03.2013 – 08.2013

    whiteID GmbH & Co. KG · Schorndorf

    Internship — Product Design

  12. 03.2012 – 09.2012

    Uedelhoven Studios · Gaimersheim

    Internship — Transportation & Product Design

Education

  1. 09.2015 – 10.2017

    FH Joanneum · Graz

    Master of Arts in Arts and Design — Industrial Design

    Assembly group lead for the Formula Student race car.

  2. 09.2010 – 01.2015

    Reutlingen University · Reutlingen

    Bachelor of Arts — Transportation Interior Design

  3. 08.2007 – 06.2010

    German Red Cross · Stuttgart

    Emergency medical service and paramedic training

  4. 09.1993 – 05.2006

    Freie Waldorfschule · Stuttgart

    Fachhochschulreife

Contact

Automotive

  • Porsche
  • Daimler Trucks
  • BMW

Skills

  • VCVisual ConceptVisual Storytelling · Concept Development · Design Thinking
  • 3D3D / VisualizationAutodesk Alias · VRED · VR/AR
  • CCAdobe CCPhotoshop · InDesign · Illustrator · After Effects · Premiere
  • AIGenerative AIVizcom · Image and video generation

Sketching · Clay modelling · open to new tools and workflows.

Languages

  • GermanNative
  • EnglishFluent
  • RussianBasic

Interests

  • Camping in a self-converted fire brigade bus — Mercedes-Benz T1 „Bremer“
  • Motorcycling — Ducati Königswelle
  • Snowboarding, cycling and sport