John Krsteski is an American automobile designer, automotive artist, painter and Chief Designer at

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, North America. Born and raised in

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, he studied transportation design at the

College for Creative Studies College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a private art school in Detroit, Michigan. It enrolls more than 1,400 students and focuses on arts education. The college is also active in offering art education to children through its Community Arts Part ...

in Detroit. While at CCS, Krsteski elected also to study painting. On graduation, he joined

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where he worked on advanced automotive interiors at a time when the expectation for design graduates was to become exterior designers. He described going into interior design as "An unusual step of focusing on his weakness", Krsteski worked at Johnson controls for three years where he became a design manager. He joined

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in 2007 as a design manager, remained there for 13 years, and joined joining Genesis Design, as a chief designer. He started out with interiors and later transitioned to exterior design. During Krsteski's time at Hyundai, he was responsible for several concept and production vehicles, such as the Hyundai Nuvis concept, Curb Concept, HCD-14 concept, Hyundai Sonata, and

Hyundai Genesis The Hyundai Genesis ( ko, 현대 제네시스) is an executive four-door, five passenger, rear or all-wheel-drive full-size luxury sedan manufactured and marketed by Hyundai. The Hyundai Genesis debuted in 2008 until Genesis spun off as a separa ...

. He appeared on the MotoMan TV in 2011 in a mini documentary series about the design and development of the Hyundai Curb concept. Krsteski is also an instructor at the

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, where he teaches automobile design.

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