Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian industrial and automotive designer whose work includes the Volkswagen Golf, DeLorean DMC-12, and Lotus Esprit.

Volkswagen Golf: A compact car introduced by Volkswagen in 1974, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Its angular hatchback established a lasting template for the Golf line.
Bertone: An Italian automobile design and coachbuilding company founded in 1912. Giugiaro worked there early in his career and designed the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT.
Wedge design: An automotive styling approach marked by a low nose, rising profile, and sharply angled surfaces. Giugiaro helped popularize the form in sports cars such as the Lotus Esprit.
Marcello Gandini: An Italian automotive designer known for work at Bertone, including the Lamborghini Miura and Countach. His rivaling wedge designs offer a useful comparison with Giugiaro’s approach to the same era.
DeLorean DMC-12: A stainless-steel sports car produced by the DeLorean Motor Company from 1981 to 1982. Its wedge profile and gull-wing doors made Giugiaro’s design widely recognizable.
Ghia: An Italian coachbuilder and automotive design company founded in 1916. Giugiaro became its chief designer in 1965 after leaving Bertone.
Automotive packaging: The arrangement of passengers, cargo, mechanical systems, and structure within a vehicle. The Fiat Panda shows how Giugiaro used packaging to make a small car unusually practical.
Aldo Brovarone: An Italian automotive designer known for his work at Pininfarina. His career provides a parallel to Giugiaro’s within Italy’s influential design-house culture.
Lotus Esprit: A mid-engined sports car made by Lotus from 1976 to 2004. Giugiaro’s wedge-shaped original became one of his signature designs.
Italdesign Giugiaro: An Italian design and engineering company founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani in 1968. The firm gave Giugiaro a platform to develop complete vehicle projects for manufacturers.

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John DeLoreanRelated: Giugiaro designed the car’s distinctive wedge-shaped body.