Class A Surface Modeller

Rade
Culic

Where engineering precision meets aesthetic vision

30 years of automotive design and engineering — BMW, Audi, Polestar, NIO, Mansory. Complete interiors, wheel programmes, engine components, and concept show cars. Class A surfacing built on a foundation of manufacturing engineering that most designers never have.

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30+
Years of experience
8
Global OEM brands
50+
BMW wheels in production
Trusted by global automotive leaders
BMW
Audi
Polestar
Volvo Trucks
NIO
BYTON
Mansory
MAN
Featured specialisation
50+ BMW wheels in production — 15 years of wheel design
The world's most experienced freelance automotive wheel specialist
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Work

Portfolio by
discipline

Three decades of work across automotive design, engineering, and beyond — organised by the disciplines that define the practice.

Specialisation
Wheel
Design
Class ABMW Group50+ in production
15 years as the primary freelance wheel specialist inside BMW Group. 50+ designs currently on road vehicles. The world's most experienced independent automotive wheel modeller.
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Core Discipline
Class A
Surfacing
InteriorExteriorAlias & ICEM
Complete interior and exterior Class A programmes — Polestar 4, Volvo Trucks FH & FM 2027, BMW F15 X5, BMW F16 X6. Production-ready surfaces from STRAK to tooling sign-off.
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Design Vision
Automotive
Concepts
Show carsBeijing 2014NIO · BYTON
Show cars, design studies, and speculative automotive futures — including the Audi TT Offroad concept at Beijing Motor Show 2014 and early NIO and BYTON EV programmes.
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Beyond Automotive
UAV &
Drone Design
AerospaceDFMComposites
Precision surface engineering for unmanned aerial systems — applying automotive Class A discipline and three decades of manufacturing knowledge to aerial platform design.
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Industrial Design
Product
Design
ConsumerInjection mouldingPremium
Premium consumer and industrial product design — Class A surface quality and twelve years of injection moulding experience applied to objects built for manufacture, not just visualisation.
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Personal Work
Art &
Creative Work
DigitalBlender3D Art
The other side of a life spent thinking about form, light, and surface — personal work that exists outside client briefs and engineering reviews. The eye that formed before the career.
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Capabilities

Craft refined to
production standard

Class A Surfacing
High-quality surface development from concept sketches through to production-ready STRAK — with full curvature continuity and reflection quality for Class A standards.
Alias Studio ToolsICEM SurfSTRAK
Procedural Design
Parametric interior pattern and trim surface generation — enabling design iteration at scale for complex geometric forms that manual modelling cannot efficiently achieve.
GrasshopperRhinoParametric
Engineering Foundation
A background in CNC programming, tooling design and multi-axis machining means surfaces are modelled not just for aesthetics — but for the realities of production.
CAD/CAMDFMCNCTooling
Poly & Visualisation
Poly modelling and integration with rendering pipelines for design evaluation, presentation, and cross-team communication throughout the development process.
BlenderRenderingViz Pipeline
Clay-to-Digital
Digital sculpting from physical clay scan data — bridging the analogue design studio and digital modelling environment with accuracy and surface intent preserved.
Scan dataSculptingClay integration
Cross-discipline Collaboration
Fluent in the language of designers, clay modellers, and production engineers alike — enabling smooth handoffs and fewer costly iterations across the full development cycle.
OEM workflowStudio teamsTier 1
Career

30 years across
the industry's best

AFRY / Eccoci / WA Consulting
2021 — 2025
Senior Class A Modeller & Design Engineer · Gothenburg, Sweden
Class A interior and exterior surface development. Procedural Grasshopper modelling for complex parametric interior patterns. Blender visualisation pipeline integration.
Polestar 4 — full interior programme · Volvo Trucks FH & FM 2027 — complete interior update
DE Automotive
2019 — 2021
Alias CAS Modeller & Design Engineer · Munich, Germany
BMW Group programmes including engine cover design (BMW i carbon fibre and BMW M variants), light group development, and wheel surface development across multiple platforms — running in parallel with other freelance engagements.
Freelance — Munich network
2015 — 2019
Class A & CAS Modeller · Munich, Germany
Parallel engagements across multiple studios — standard practice in the Munich automotive freelance world. Clients included Semcon/Concept House, EK Design AG, DMS, FAW, BYTON, NIO, and own studio Culic Design.
Audi TT Offroad concept (Beijing 2014) · NIO ES8 early programme · BYTON EV interior · BMW Motorrad
KS Engineering GmbH
2008 — 2014
ICEM Surf Konstrukteur · Munich, Germany
Six years of high-precision Class A surface development for BMW Group and Audi. Complete interior programmes for BMW F15 X5 and F16 X6. BMW F20 interior via PSW secondment. Mansory X5/X6 customisation programme. Beginning of long-term BMW wheel specialisation.
BMW F15 X5 complete interior · BMW F16 X6 complete interior · Mansory X5/X6 · BMW wheels
PSW Automotive Engineering
2008 — 2009
Class A Surface Modeller · Germany (KS Engineering secondment)
BMW F20 Series 1 interior Class A surface modelling — engaged via KS Engineering secondment to PSW, standard practice within the Munich automotive supply chain.
Military & Manufacturing Engineering
1993 — 2008
Military Engineer · CAD Designer · CNC Programmer · Serbia & Germany
Naval Technical School (military engineering), followed by 12 years in CNC machining, injection moulding, and tooling design across Serbian and German industrial companies. The manufacturing foundation behind every production decision made since.
MET/Profimold · Inmold Group · Unipromet · Dinamic Line
The modeller
"I came to automotive surface design through an unusual path — and that path changed everything."

Military engineering, then a decade on the factory floor — CNC machines, injection moulding, tooling jigs, production tolerances — before I ever opened Alias. Most Class A modellers come from design studios. I came through manufacturing. That background is permanent and it shows in every surface I deliver.

Over 30 years I have contributed to production programmes across BMW, Audi, Polestar, Volvo Trucks, NIO, BYTON, and Mansory — complete interiors, wheel programmes, engine covers, light groups, and concept show cars including the Audi TT Offroad concept shown at Beijing 2014. The NIO and BYTON years were formative in a different way — being inside Chinese EV startups during their critical early phase teaches you to work fast, decide with incomplete information, and deliver under pressure that traditional OEM supply chains never create.

Based in Serbia. Available for remote projects globally, and open to on-site or relocation for the right programme.

English — fluent German — intermediate Serbian — native Swedish — basic
30+
Years of design & engineering
8
Global OEM & premium brands
50+
BMW wheels in production
2
Core surface tools — Alias & ICEM Surf
Let's work together

Open to
new engagements

Freelance projects · Full-time roles · Remote or on-site

Email
Phone
+381 61 158 6985
Location
Atenica, Serbia
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