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Giorgetto Giugiaro (Italian pronunciation:[dʒorˈdʒettodʒuˈdʒaːro]; 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.[1] He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times, including a lifetime achievement awarded in 1984.[2]
In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies for Nikon, Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, in 1983,[3][4] the organ of the Cathedral of Lausanne (composed of about 7000 pipes) in 2003,[5] and developed a new pasta shape, "Marille". He also designed several watch models for Seiko, mainly racing chronographs,[6] as well as office furniture for Okamura Corporation.[7]
Giugiaro (left) and a Bertone employee with a wooden model of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GT
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."[8] 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.
Giugiaro started his career as a stylist at the in-house Special Vehicle Design department of Italy's major carmaker Fiat (1955–1959)[9]
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.[9] 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[10]
Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, Giugiaro Design, 1983Sirio telephone (Museum of Science and Technology collection, Milan)Compasso d'Oro award winning Deutz-Fahr 7250 TTV Agrotron
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