Carlo Bonzanigo

Carlo Bonzanigo is an Italian and Swiss car designer who has worked for many years for the famous Italian Design House Pininfarina and for Citroen Design.

From 2015 to late 2016, he was director of the Automotive Division of Q-ID Industrial Design, Director of the Design Studio Q-Red in Maranello, Italy, and consultant for Ferrari Design, Maranello. As of January 2017, he is Director of Design at Pininfarina in Cambiano, near Turin.

Biography

Carlo Bonzanigo was born in Lugano in 1966. He holds a Master of Arts in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (specialization in Aeronautical Engineering) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Career

He began his career as a designer in 1995 with Pininfarina Design in Turin. A few years later, as Design Manager under Lorenzo Ramaciotti, he was responsible for the Concept Cars Pininfarina Citroën Osée (2001) for which he designed the interior and the Pininfarina Ford Start (2003), as well as for the Maserati Gran Turismo production Coupé (2003).

In 2004, he joined the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group as Chief Designer at the Citroën Design Studio in Vélizy near Paris. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Concept Cars and International Cooperation Programs, and one year later Head of Advanced Design.

He was part of the team led by Jean Pierre Ploué that resurrected Citroen Design and created the new DS Brand “ex nihilo”.[1]

During his tenure with the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group he was Head of Exterior and Interior Design for the production cars C3 Picasso[2] (2008), C3 Aircross (2010), C4 Aircross (2012) and C1 (2014), as well as the Concept Cars DS Hypnos (2008),[3] DS Revolte (2009), Citroen Tubik (2011),[4] DS Numéro 9 (2012),[5] C1 Swiss and Me (2014) and C1 Urban Ride (2014).

In 2008, he was appointed “Maître Expert Design” of the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, representing the “Design expertise” of the Group in congresses and international committees from 2008 to 2012.

From 2015 to late 2016, he was director of the Automotive Division of Q-ID Industrial Design, Director of the Design Studio Q-Red in Maranello, Italy, and consultant for Ferrari Design, Maranello. Since January 2017, he has been Director of Design at Pininfarina in Cambiano, near Turin.

References

  1. ↑ "Citroën creates "DS line" styling department - Car Body Design". www.carbodydesign.com. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  2. ↑ "CITROËN C3 PICASS0 1.6 HDI Exclusive Style".
  3. ↑ "Car Design News".
  4. ↑ "Citroen reveals the Tubik concept". 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  5. ↑ "Citroen DS Numero 9 highlights - Car Design News". Retrieved 2016-08-13.
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