Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giugiaro in 2016
Born (1938-08-07) 7 August 1938 (age 86)
Garessio, Italy
OccupationDesigner
Known forCar designing
SpouseMaria Teresa Serra
Children2

Giorgetto Giugiaro (Italian pronunciation: [dʒorˈdʒetto dʒuˈdʒaːro]; born 7 August 1938) is an Italian automotive 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] He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times.[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
  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. ^ "A Giugiaro il sesto compasso d'oro". repubblica.it. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Comune Monte argentario". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Navigation promenade Porto Santo Stefano". Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ "LSD Magazine". Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. ^ "NOTES & THEORIES: For perfect pasta, simmer for 500 years". Find articles. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  7. ^ "Okamura". Retrieved 5 January 2012.