Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro (born 7 August 1938) is an Italian automotive designer who has worked on supercars and everyday vehicles alike, was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. He began as a stylist at Fiat in 1959, worked for Bertone until 1965 and for Ghia from 1965 to 1967, and in 1968 established his own studio, Italdesign Giugiaro. In 2015 he founded the design studio GFG Style in Turin with his son Fabrizio. His designs include the 1974 first Volkswagen Golf, the 1976 Lotus Esprit S1, the 1978 BMW M1 and the 1981 DMC DeLorean, and the Golf Mk1 is his most commercially successful. Beyond cars he designed Nikon camera bodies, Seiko watches and a pasta shape called Marille, and he won the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times.