In addition to cars, Giugiaro designed camera bodies forNikon,Navigation promenade ofPorto Santo Stefano, in 1983,[3][4] theorgan 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 forSeiko, mainly racingchronographs,[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 seriesBack to the Future. His most commercially successful design is theVolkswagen Golf Mk1.
In 1976, Giugiaro explored a taxi concept with theMuseum of Modern Art (MOMA), which became the 1978Lancia Megagamma concept. Fiat had commissioned the 1978 concept fromItaldesign, asking for a 4-meter length, high roof, highh-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 theMPV/minivan movement."[8] it influenced design of such mini/compact MPVs as theNissan Prairie (1981) andFiat 500L (2011), as well as larger MPVs, including theRenault Espace andChrysler minivans.
Giugiaro started his career as a stylist at the in-house Special Vehicle Design department of Italy's major carmakerFiat (1955–1959)[9]
From 1959–1965, he worked in a similar capacity forGruppo Bertone, a company exclusively working forother 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 andindustrial 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, likeLotus in the UK, orPorsche in Germany.
In 1965 Giugiaro switched to working forGhia, 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]
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