Giorgetto Giugiaro 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.
Giorgetto Giugiaro is arguably the world’s most influential modern automotive designer.
He was born in Garessio, Italy in 1938. His father and grandfather were both oil painters. In 1952 he moved to Turin where he enrolled in a Fine Arts program coupled with technical planning courses. At the age of 17 he was admitted to the Style Center Fiat as a young designer and worked in the Ufficio Studi Stilistici Vetture Speciali (Special Vehicle Stylistic Study Department) under the guidance of Dante Giacosa. He had little interest in styling automobiles before one of his professors suggested that the automobile industry would pay him handsomely for his artistic talents.
He began sketching cars and presented some of his work at a student exhibition in 1955, where it was noticed by Fiat’s Technical Director Dante Giacosa. Impressed by the young man’s creativity, Giacosa recruited Giugiaro and three months later he joined Fiat’s Special Vehicle Design Study Department. Giugiaro worked at Fiat for four years before he was lured by Nuccio Bertone to join the famous Gruppo Bertone styling center. Bertone invested numerous resources into the young prodigy, and Giugiaro rewarded his mentor with a remarkable streak of successful designs. Some of Giugiaro’s notable work at Bertone includes the Aston Martin DB4 GT Jet Concept, Ferrari 250 GT Concept, Chevrolet Corvair Testudo Concept, Alfa Romeo Sprint, and the Fiat 850 Spider. Giugiaro would leave Bertone after six years to join another Italian coachbuilder, Ghia, where he styled cars for DeTomaso and Maserati. In 1967, Giugiaro formed a partnership with Aldo Mantovani and founded a company near Turin, Italy named Italdesign (later Ital Design/Giugiaro.) Since its founding, Giugiaro’s company has styled over 200 vehicles for clients all over the world. The company’s portfolio includes the Alfa Romeo Alfasud, Lotus Esprit, Volkswagen Golf and Scirocco, Bugatti EB112, Saab 9000, Subaru SVX, and the DeLorean DMC 12. In addition to his automotive designs, Giugiaro has also shaped numerous consumer products such as cameras for Nikon, firearms for Beretta, and motorcycles for Ducati, and Suzuki. In 1999 he won the “Car Designer of the Century Award” in Las Vegas after being selected by a jury including 120 journalists and international experts. He was also granted the honorary title of Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic, Mr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and the joint board including the Piedmont Region, the Province of Turin and the City of Turin appointed him Chairman of the Bid Committee for the XX Winter Olympic Games were held in the Turin area in 2006.
In his “first” 50 years of activity in the car design field, Giugiaro has styled more than 200 car models for about 50 million cars travelling on road all over the world.

During his impressive career, Giugiaro styled cars for nearly every major automaker across the globe.” Considering the breadth of his accomplishments, it is difficult to name anyone who has had a greater influence on modern automotive design than Giorgetto Giugiaro In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies for Nikon, Navigation promenade of Porto Santo Stefano, in 1983,the organ of the cathedral of Lausanne (composed of about 7000 pipes) in 2003] and developed a new pasta shape “Marille” as well as office furniture for Okamura Corporation.[6]