Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro
Born (1938-08-07) August 7, 1938
Garessio, Italy
Nationality Italian
Occupation Automobile designer
Partner(s) Maria Teresa Serra
Children Fabrizio Giugiaro, Laura Giugiaro
Parent(s) Mario Giugiaro, Maria Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro (Italian pronunciation: [dʒorˈdʒetto dʒuˈdʒaːro]; born 7 August 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was born in Garessio, Cuneo, Piedmont.

Giugiaro was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002.[1]

In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies for Nikon, computer prototypes for Apple, Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, and developed a new pasta shape "Marille",[2] as well as office furniture for Okamura Corporation.[3]

Influence on design

Maserati Ghibli.
Iso Grifo
De Tomaso Mangusta.
Maserati Merak.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT
Volkswagen Golf Mk1.
DeLorean DMC-12
Lotus Esprit S1.
Eagle Premier ES Limited with "design giugiaro" badge.
Alfa Romeo 159.
Giugiaro Ford Mustang 2006 Concept Car.
MyCar, Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, GreenTech Automotive

Giugiaro's earliest cars featured tastefully arched and curving shapes, such as the De Tomaso Mangusta, Iso Grifo, and Maserati Ghibli. However, as the 1970s approached, Giugiaro's designs became increasingly angular, culminating in the "folded paper" era of the 1970s. Straight-lined designs such as the BMW M1, Lotus Esprit S1, and Maserati Bora followed before a softer approach returned in the Maserati Merak, Lamborghini Calà, Maserati Spyder, and Ferrari GG50.

Giugiaro is widely known for the DeLorean DMC-12, featured prominently in the Hollywood blockbuster series Back to the Future. His most commercially successful design was the Volkswagen Golf Mk1.

In 1976, Giugiaro explored a new 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, high roof, high h-point, multifunctional, monospace design — but ultimately found the concept too risky for production. In retrospect the Megagamma was more influential than it was itself successful, becoming the "conceptual birth mother of the MPV/minivan movement"[4] — giving rise to such mini/compact MPV's as the Nissan Prairie (1981) and Fiat 500L (2011) as well as larger MPV's including the Renault Espace and Chrysler minivans.

Studios

Designs

Automobiles

Cameras

Nikon F4S Giugiaro Design

Firearms

Motorcycles

Other

Notes

  1. ↑ "Giorgetto Giugiaro Awarded Place of Honor at the Detroit "Automotive Hall of Fame"". Giugiaro news. Archived from the original on 6 May 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "NOTES & THEORIES: For perfect pasta, simmer for 500 years". findarticles.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-22. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  3. ↑ "okamura". Okamura.jp. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
  4. ↑ Karl Smith (August 14, 2015). "Lancia Megagamma (1978)". Car Design News.
  5. ↑ "Update 1 - Volkswagen buys control of car designer Italdesign". Reuters.com. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Ciferri, Luca (2 July 2015). "Legendary car designer Giugiaro quits company that bears his name". Automotive News.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Stars & Cars of Bertone". Road & Track: 78. November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Eagle Premier". Italdesign Giugiaro. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Archive: Classicmotor.se BMW Spicup".
  10. ↑ "Archive: Giugiaro Mustang, Take One". Motor Trend. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
  11. ↑ "Greentech Automotive - Home". Wmgta.com. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
  12. ↑ Jacobs, Andrew Jame (2017). Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe: Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry. Springer. p. 45. ISBN 9781137407863. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  13. ↑ Colombo, Sandro, "Sessantacinque anni fra moto e auto" (PDF), AISA monograph no. 96 (in Italian), Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Automobile, p. 25
  14. ↑ "Volume leader in automobile design". autonews.com. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  15. ↑ "Renault 21 (Medallion)". Italdesign Giugiaro. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  16. ↑ "Renault 19". Italdesign Giugiaro. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  17. ↑ "Škoda 720: Unikát, který mohl konkurovat BMW". auto.idnes.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  18. ↑ Curry, Iain (22 February 2011). "Korando the dawn of a new age". Warwick Daily News. Australia. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  19. ↑ "Evolution of electronic cameras and Nikon F3". Nikon. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  20. ↑ Beretta USA Site http://www.berettausa.com/products/ugb25-xcel-trap-12-ga-30/
  21. ↑ Brown, Roland (July–August 2011). "1975 Ducati 860GT". Motorcycle Classics. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  22. 1 2 "1974 – Suzuki RE5 Rotary – Wankel – 500 Collezione Motociclistica Milanese". Collezione Motociclistica Milanese. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  23. ↑ "1977 MV Agusta 350 Ipotesi". 25 April 2015.
  24. ↑ Padeanu, Adrian (2013-02-25). "Lamborghini Nitro tractor revealed". motor 1. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  25. ↑ 1986 Seiko Speedmaster by Giorgetto Giugiaro, retrieved on 17 February 2009.
  26. ↑ Macchina Sportiva, retrieved on 3 September 2014.
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