Giorgetto Giugiaro
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Giorgetto Giugiaro (Template:IPA; born 7 August 1938) is an Italian automotive designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002.<ref name="MaseratiNet">Template:Cite web</ref> He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times, including a lifetime achievement awarded in 1984.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies for Nikon, Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, in 1983,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the organ of the Cathedral of Lausanne (composed of about 7000 pipes) in 2003,<ref name="LSD Magazine">Template:Cite web</ref> and developed a new pasta shape, "Marille". He also designed several watch models for Seiko, mainly racing chronographs,<ref name= "findarticles.com">Template:Cite news</ref> as well as office furniture for Okamura Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Influence on design
Giugiaro's earliest cars, like the Alfa Romeo 105/115 Series Coupés, often featured tastefully arched and curving shapes, such as the De Tomaso Mangusta, Iso Grifo, and Maserati Ghibli.
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From the late 1960s, Giugiaro's designs became increasingly angular, transitioning via the gentle bends of the 1971 Maserati Bora, and culminating in the straight-lined, "folded paper" era of the 1970s and '80s designs such as the 1974 first VW Golf, the 1976 Lotus Esprit S1, 1978 BMW M1, and the 1981 DMC DeLorean. During the early 1990s, he went along with the era, and introduced more curvy designs again, with his Lamborghini Calà, Maserati Spyder, Ferrari GG50 and Grundig Space Fidelity.
Giugiaro is widely known for the DMC DeLorean, prominently featured in the Hollywood movie series Back to the Future. His most commercially successful design is the Volkswagen Golf Mk1.
In 1976, Giugiaro explored a taxi concept with the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), which became the 1978 Lancia Megagamma concept. Fiat had commissioned the 1978 concept from Italdesign, asking for a 4-meter length, high roof, high h-point, multi-functional, monospace design — but ultimately decided the concept was too risky for production. In retrospect, the Megagamma was more influential than successful in its own right. It is considered the "conceptual birth mother of the MPV/minivan movement."<ref name="influential">Template:Cite web</ref> it influenced design of such mini/compact MPVs as the Nissan Prairie (1981) and Fiat 500L (2011), as well as larger MPVs, including the Renault Espace and Chrysler minivans.
Career and studios
- Giugiaro started his career as a stylist at the in-house Special Vehicle Design department of Italy's major carmaker Fiat (1955–1959)<ref name="Biography">Template:Cite web</ref>
- From 1959–1965, he worked in a similar capacity for Gruppo Bertone, a company exclusively working for other carmakers, primarily as a styling and design studio, similar to a building architecture firm, as well as handling low volume production of special edition cars for other carmakers.<ref name="Biography"/> Although Bertone and Italy's other car and industrial design studios would create design proposals for other car brands on their own initiative, and sometimes even show concept cars under their own name, they never combined their design and production work for other carmakers with independent car manufacturing in their own right and under their own brand name, like Lotus in the UK, or Porsche in Germany.
- In 1965 Giugiaro switched to working for Ghia, another of Italy's car design studios, through 1967; followed by:
- a brief stint at Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi (SIRP), in 1968, after which<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Giugiaro founded his own studio, Italdesign Giugiaro (1968–2015).<ref name="Biography"/><ref name=ciferri>Template:Cite news</ref>
- In 2015, he founded the design studio GFG Style in Turin with his son, Fabrizio Giugiaro, where he works to the present day.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Designs
Automobiles
- Alfa Romeo
- 2000 Sprint (1960)
- 2600 Sprint (1962)
- Giulia Sprint GT (1963)<ref name=r&t112014>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Canguro concept car (1964)
- Giulia SS Bertone Prototipo concept car (1965)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlinetta concept car (1968)
- Iguana concept car (1968)
- Caimano concept car (1971)
- Alfasud (1972)
- Alfetta GT (1974)
- Alfasud Sprint (1976)
- Brera concept car (2002, won Compasso d'Oro award)
- 156 facelift second series (2003)
- Visconti concept car (2004)
- 159/159 SW (2004)
- Brera (2005)
- American Motors
- AMC AMX/3 (1970)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Eagle Premier (1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- ASA 1000 GT (1962)
- Aston Martin
- DB4 GT Bertone 'Jet' (1961)
- Twenty Twenty concept car (2001)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Audi
- Audi 80 (1972)<ref name="ciferri" />
- Audi 80 (1978)
- Audi Coupe
- BMW
- 3200 CS (1961)
- BMW 2800 Spicup concept car (initial design, 1969)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- M1 (1977)
- Nazca C2 concept car (1992)
- Nazca C2 Spider concept car (1993)
- M1 Homage Concept (2008)
- Bugatti Automobili and Bugatti Automobiles
- Buick Park Avenue Ultra (1989–1990 interior seating)
- Cadillac Sixty Special (1989–1993 interior seating)
- Chevrolet Testudo concept car (1963)
- Daewoo
- De Tomaso
- Mangusta (1966)
- Rowan concept car (1967)
- DMC DeLorean (1981)
- Ferrari
- 250 GT “Competition” Berlinetta SWB Speciale Bertone (1960)<ref name="RM Sotheby's">Template:Cite web</ref>
- 250 GT Berlinetta SWB Speciale Bertone (1962)<ref name= r&t112014/>
- Ferrari GG50 concept car (2005)
- Fiat
- 850 Spider (1965)
- Dino Coupé (initial design, 1963)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Panda (1980, won Compasso d'Oro award)<ref name=ciferri/>
- Uno (1983)
- Croma (1985)
- Punto (1993, won Compasso d'Oro award)<ref name=ciferri/>
- Palio/Siena (2001)
- Croma (2005)
- Grande Punto (2005)
- Sedici (2005)
- Ford
- Maya concept car (1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Mustang concept car (1966, 2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- FSO
- Polonez (1978)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- GreenTech Automotive
- GreenTech MyCar<ref>Template:Citation.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Gordon-Keeble GT (1960)
- Hyundai
- Pony Coupé concept car (1974)
- Pony (1975)
- Stellar (1982)
- Excel (1985)
- Sonata (1988)
- Innocenti 186 GT (1964)<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
- Iso Rivolta
- Rivolta IR 300 (1961)
- Grifo (1963)<ref name=r&t112014/>
- Fidia (1967)
- Italdesign
- Aztec concept car (1988)
- Quaranta concept car (2008)
- Isuzu
- 117 Coupé (1968)
- Piazza/Impulse (1981)
- Gemini/I-Mark (1985)
- Iveco
- Iveco CityClass bus (1996)
- Iveco MyWay bus (1999)
- Iveco Eurotech (1992)
- Iveco EuroTrakker (1993)
- Iveco Daily (2006)
- Iveco Massif (2007)
- Lamborghini
- Marco Polo concept car (1982)
- Calà concept car (1995)
- Lancia
- Lexus GS (1993)
- Lotus
- Maserati
- Mazda
- Mazda Familia (1963)
- Mazda Luce (1965)
- Oldsmobile Thor concept car (1967)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Porsche Tapiro concept car (1970)
- Proton Emas concept car (2010)
- Renault
- 21 (1986) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 19 (1988)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Saab
- Scania 2-series (1980)
- SEAT
- Simca
- Simca 1000 Coupé (1962)
- Simca 1200S (1967)
- Skoda 720 concept car (1972)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- SsangYong
- Rexton (2001)
- Korando (2010)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Subaru Alcyone SVX (1991)
- Suzuki
- Techrules Ren (2018)
- Toyota
- Aristo (1991)
- Alessandro Volta concept car (2004)
- Volkswagen
- Karmann Ghia TC (1972)
- Passat (1973)
- Scirocco (1974)
- Golf (1974)<ref name="ciferri" />
- Jetta (1979)
- W12 Coupe & Roadster concept cars (1997)
- Zastava
- Florida (1988)
Cameras
Firearms
- Handguns
- Submachine Guns
- Beretta CX4 Storm (2003)
- Shotguns<ref>Beretta USA Site http://www.berettausa.com/products/ugb25-xcel-trap-12-ga-30/</ref>
- Beretta UGB25 Xcel Trap 12 GA, 30"
Motorcycles
- Ducati 860 GT (1975)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Suzuki RE5 (1975)<ref name="cmmilanese224">Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
- Derbi Predator (1998)<ref name="cmmilanese224"/>
- TOMOS A5 Colibri (1989) moped
- MV Agusta 350 Ipotesi<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Other
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- Sirio telephone for Società Italiana per l'Esercizio Telefonico (early 1990s)
- FIAT Ferroviaria/Alstom ETR 460 (Pendolino) train (1993)
- Nitro concept tractor (2013)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Seiko Sports watch (1983)
- Seiko Speed Master wrist watch (1986)<ref>Template:Cite web.</ref>
- Seiko Macchina Sportiva wrist watch<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>
- Isotron by Eurodent, dental system (1989, won Compasso d'Oro award)
- Deutz-Fahr 7250 TTV Agrotron (2014, won Compasso d'Oro award)
- Deutz-Fahr 6215 RCSHIFT tractor (2017)<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>
- Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, Tuscany<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
- Marille Pasta<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>
- Organ of the cathedral of Lausanne, composed of about 7000 pipes<ref name="LSD Magazine"/>
- Molten basketball design (official game ball for FIBA)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Balsamic Vinegar of Modena Bottle<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>
- Bridgestone Blouson bicycle (1985)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
References
External links
- Italdesign, Giugiaro's industrial design group
- Coachbuild.com Encyclopedia: Giugiaro Template:Webarchive
- Bontempi Minstrel
- BMW Designers An overview of automotive designers working for BMW.