Lindsey Lee, Phil Riehlman
Background
Lindsey Lee — Lindsey Eun-ji Lee is a Korean designer who worked at Mattel from 2016 to 2022 and was Hot Wheels' first full-time female designer. It was her first job after graduating from the Art Center College of Design (2015); before that, she interned at Nissan Headquarter Studios in Tokyo. At Mattel, she designed mainly for mainline, Premium and Extensions, and was in charge of designing retools of existing castings. She then returned to South Korea and works in fashion, as design lead at the New Era Cap Company.
Phil Riehlman — Phil Riehlman has worked with the Mattel team in El Segundo since the early 1990s. He designed more than 200 castings through 2012 and, in recent years, has focused on the Premium 1:43 scale line (15 cars so far). His projects include the Volkswagen Drag Bus, Drag Truck, Dairy Delivery, Ford GT-40, Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR34), Toyota Off-Road Truck and Fiat 500C; in the Elite 64 line he made nine castings, such as the Porsche 911 GT2 EVO 993.
