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Giugiaro

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In 1938, Giugiaro (Fabrizio Giugiaro) was born in the northwestern Italian town of Garessio in a family of artists grandfather to paint murals for the church, his father was a religious painter, mother of the music also has a deep attainments.

and Giugiaro himself at the age of 14 to enter postgraduate studies in Turin, in addition to painting, he also indulged in industrial design. On a graduation exhibition, he was a few cars Fiat design is the soul of Dante Giacosa identify what, becoming a Fiat design team. That year, he was only 17 years old. Fiat four-year design career does not provide much opportunity to display their talent for him, design is often difficult to be put into production until 1959 to switch to the world-famous design company Broadcom (Bertone) subsidiary, is entrusted with the task to complete the Alfa Romeo 2000 project.

However little later, Giugiaro was drafted into the army. Broadcom is not designed to work blocked, he was transferred to Turin near Bra work in local small hotel rented a room for him, and all the tools needed to provide the drawing board. Ferrari 250GT famous models and Alfa Romeo Giulia GT is a product thereafter have been born during this period, but also laid the works of his early success.

In 1963, Alfa Romeo Giulia GT unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show that year. In the ensuing fourteen years, a total of 120,000 drove down the production line, to become Giugiaro in “Broadcom era” the most successful of a business case. Broadcom work in a few years, Giugiaro called “prolific writer”: Alfa Romeo Canguro, Ferrari 250GT, Maserati 5000GT, the Aston Martin DB4, Fiat 850 Spider, BMW 3200CS, collections are down and the number of stars.

In 1965, Giugiaro left Broadcom Corporation, he served as head of Ghia Design Center.Although the short term, but a steady stream of equally wonderful works: Isuzu 117, Fiat 850 Vanessa, Maserati Ghibli, De Tomaso Pampero, which in 1966 designed Mangusta, a smooth shape change of the sixties, the first angular-shaped stack of paper car for classic turning point, marking the arrival of the seventies is full of individually designed, called era.

Giugiaro and 1968 Bizzarini Manta

2, areas of the world

world car design field, It was named the “century design master” Giugiaro from Italy, he and his Italdesign (Italian design house) hardly unknown! For this proud title, Giugiaro is well deserved, whether he designed numerous, well known as cars or he founded the world’s most profitable and largest automotive design studio Italdesign point of view, Giugiaro and his design Studio has become a classic in the field of automotive design symbol.

Giugiaro and Geely Group President Yang Jian, Zhao Fuquan, vice president of Geely booth

Giugiaro graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, 17 years old to enter Fiat work. Later, Giugiaro joined Broadcom has a long history of design studio, under the tutelage of Lv Siao Bertone. Lv Siao Bertone teachings deeply influenced Giugiaro, expanded his creativity, his talent to the show, while Giugiaro created an amazing imagination. The designer virtue of their own efforts and superhuman talent, achieved remarkable results in constant tempered. In 1968, Giugiaro and Mantovani engineers founded Italdesign, to major international automobile manufacturers offer cars style, technology and prototype production. Many world-renowned automakers have a good working relationship with them, large and stable customer base. Then came the company’s name change: 1987 Italdesign becomesS.p.A. (Italian design stock company); from July 1999 (until September 1999 into the stock market) began to be called Italdesign-Giugiaro AG.
20 1960s and 1970s, with American cars as the representative of exaggerated form reached its peak, however, when the world economy is in bad times, there is a direct impact on the car’s fuel crisis. At that time, we need a simple, practical, good aerodynamics of the car, so to Giugiaro body design as the representative of the Italian community advocated simple, concise, delicate, smooth and practical style has been in the international high recommendation. 1974 Maserati Medici design was practical style masterpiece. It now appears that this design is not necessarily new, but at the time but which are forward-looking. His pragmatic style has been in mass production of the Lancia Thema extreme development of the next decade and the impact of the automotive world, Giugiaro also like to lay their master status. As the “best designers of the 20th century”, Giugiaro has designed a lot of good work, allegedly, a variety of the world’s existing 2500 he designed the car is moving forward, in addition to some of the famous Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and outside Lancia models, obtained remarkable success in history, sales have more than several hundred million units over the family car as the Fiat Panda.

3, Panda car view

famous automobile designer Giorgio Giugiaro April 21, 2009 morning appeared Geely booth after booth toured Geely, Giugiaro said Geely promising future Geely’s development limitless. It is understood that the company Giugiaro himself and is located in a renowned automotive design, is the world’s leading automotive design team, with a lot of classic case in the industry.

In recent years, China’s auto companies and Giugiaro cooperation is also very frequent, it was introduced 22 models in this auspicious exhibition there are three models are designed by Giugiaro, the car in which the series of fine GC5 as a new generation of main economic Geely car launch.

In Geely booth, Giugiaro for their own design into real car feeling very excited, he used “veryveryverygood! “Way to express his feelings, he said, the cooperation is very happy and auspicious, but also very exciting to see their designs into products in just a year’s time there is a feeling of fantasy. He Geely work ethic and team achievements expressed great admiration.

Giugiaro very optimistic about the future development of Geely, said that Geely is only several models and now dozens of models from the beginning of cooperation, and the entire product planning clear, Geely huge space for future development, a promising future. auspicious

4, life experiences

Giugiaro graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, 17-year-old into the work FIAT later, Giugiaro joined Broadcom has a long history of design studio, under the tutelage of Lv Siao Bertone. Bertone Lv Siao teachings deeply influenced Giugiaro, expanded his creativity, his talent to show while Giugiaro created an amazing imagination. the design master its own efforts and superhuman talent, constantly Tempered achieved remarkable results. In 1968, Giugiaro and Mantovani engineers founded Italdesign, to major international automobile manufacturers offer cars style, technology and prototype production. Many world famous automakers have a good cooperation with relations, large and stable customer base, the company’s name change took place later: 1987 becomes ItaldesignS.pA (Italian design stock company); from July 1999 (until September 1999 into the stock market) began to be called Italdesign-Giugiaro. shares of the company.
20 1960s and 1970s, with American cars as the representative of exaggerated form reached its peak, however, when the world economy is in bad times, there is a direct impact on the car’s fuel crisis. at that time, we need a simple, practical, good aerodynamics of the car, so to Giugiaro body design as the representative of the Italian community advocated simple, concise, delicate, smooth and practical style has been highly acclaimed in the international 1974 Maserati Medici design was practicalStyle masterpiece. It now appears that this design is not necessarily new, but at the time but which are forward-looking. His pragmatic style has been in mass production of the Lancia Thema extreme development of the next decade and the impact of the automotive world, Giugiaro also like to lay their master status. As the “best designers of the 20th century”, Giugiaro has designed a lot of good work, allegedly, a variety of the world’s existing 2500 he designed the car is moving forward, in addition to some of the famous Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and outside Lancia models, obtained remarkable success in history, sales have more than several hundred million units over the family car as the Fiat Panda (Panda), Uno (Uno), Punto (Punto) are all from the master hand.
the end of the century, another darling of Giugiaro design, runs through the small body, big space concept, brimming with European-style Fiat Palio turned out. Palio body design followed the Giugiaro’s style, simple and clean, elegant fashion, not only into the Italian rich cultural heritage, but also stylish blend of modern and dynamic atmosphere. Palio exterior trim uses a lot of current popular design, headlights and taillights are integrated modeling, especially the taillights, its irregular shape not only the simple and elegant lines of the rear of the car, but also cater to a large number of youth fashion I hope the distinctive psychology.
Italdesign has a complete and sophisticated hardware facilities, covers an area of ​​42,000 square meters, has a CAD / CAM workstation system 450 sets, 16 sets of CNC machine tools, different tonnage press machine 10, the laser cutting robot six three-dimensional coordinate measuring instrument 15, line 3 prototypes. Its size is close to ordinary small depot. Italdesign same time has a very large design teams, fame and is an important reason to attract high-paying designer; energy of such a design studio work is the dream of every car stylist.

In recent years, Giugiaro has been relegated to second-tier, the business and design work to the influence of his son suffered method than Fazio. Law than Fazio although there are some relatively good work, but the external evaluation of their ability and talent are the father has a big gap.

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