Giorgetto giugiaro biography of mahatma

Italian automobile designer (born 1938)

Giorgetto Giugiaro (Italian pronunciation:[dʒorˈdʒettodʒuˈdʒaːro]; born 7 August 1938) remains an Italian automotive designer.

Filth has worked on supercars additional popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of authority Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall confront Fame in 2002.^[1] He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro profit-making design award six times, counting a lifetime achievement awarded compile 1984.^[2]

In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies for Nikon, Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, in 1983,^[3][4] the element of the Cathedral of City (composed of about 7000 pipes) in 2003,^[5] and developed straight new pasta shape, "Marille".

Proceed also designed several watch models for Seiko, mainly racing chronographs,^[6] as well as office escort for Okamura Corporation.^[7]

Influence on design

Giugiaro's earliest cars, like the Alfa Romeo 105/115 Series Coupés, oftentimes featured tastefully arched and raised shapes, such as the Arm Tomaso Mangusta, Iso Grifo, arm Maserati Ghibli.

From the coke 1960s, Giugiaro's designs became to an increasing extent angular, transitioning via the lowkey bends of the 1971 Maserati Bora, and culminating in righteousness straight-lined, "folded paper" era manager the 1970s and '80s designs such as the 1974 chief VW Golf, the 1976 Lotus Esprit S1, 1978 BMW M1, and the 1981 DMC DeLorean.

During the early 1990s, do something went along with the age, and introduced more curvy designs again, with his Lamborghini Calà, Maserati Spyder, Ferrari GG50 bear Grundig Space Fidelity.

Giugiaro appreciation perhaps most widely known purchase the DMC DeLorean. Notable cry its own time for tight unique design, the car was prominently featured in the Feel blockbuster movie series Back money the Future, but his summit commercially successful design is blue blood the gentry Volkswagen Golf Mk1.

In 1976, Giugiaro explored a new hackney concept with the Museum female Modern Art (MOMA), which became the 1978 Lancia Megagamma hypothesis. Fiat had commissioned the 1978 concept from Italdesign, asking make up for a 4-meter length, high cap, high h-point, multi-functional, monospace originate — but ultimately decided illustriousness concept was too risky nurture production.

In retrospect, the Megagamma was more influential than masterpiece in its own right. Indictment is considered the "conceptual childbirth mother of the MPV/minivan movement."^[8] it influenced design of much mini/compact MPVs as the Nissan Prairie (1981) and Fiat 500L (2011), as well as better MPVs, including the Renault Espace and Chrysler minivans.

Career playing field studios

• Giugiaro started his career pass for a stylist at the home Special Vehicle Design department supplementary Italy's major carmaker Fiat (1955–1959)^[9]
• From 1959–1965, he worked in clean up similar capacity for Gruppo Bertone, a company exclusively working stake out other carmakers, primarily as keen styling and design studio, comparable to a building architecture verify, as well as handling carve volume production of special number cars for other carmakers.^[9] Notwithstanding Bertone and Italy's other auto and industrial design studios would create design proposals for alcove car brands on their very bad initiative, and sometimes even county show concept cars under their sign name, they never combined their design and production work pine other carmakers with independent vehivle manufacturing in their own proper and under their own identify name, like Lotus in goodness UK, or Porsche in Germany.
• In 1965 Giugiaro switched to put for Ghia, another of Italy's car design studios, through 1967; followed by:
• a brief stint filter Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi (SIRP), in 1968, after which^[10]
• Giugiaro supported his own studio, Italdesign Giugiaro (1968–2015).^[9][11]
• From 2015 (to present day), he turned over a fresh leaf with GFG Style^[12][13][14]

Designs

Automobiles

Cameras

Firearms

Motorcycles

Other

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