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'''Roberto Giolito''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] automobile designer, and [[Fiat]]'s head of design,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9e956d3bd1f725201ccd9bde20d11778|title= (dead link) Fiat's Design Approach: A Family in Harmony |date=1 December 2010|publisher=[[The New York Times]] (subscription required)|accessdate=8 January 2013}}</ref> known widely known<ref>{{cita web|url=http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=GIOLITO+Roberto|titolo=Il contributo di Roberto Giolito al design automobilistico moderno|accesso=18 ottobre 2014}}</ref><ref name=automoto>{{cita web|url=http://www.automoto.it/news/roberto-giolito-dalla-multipla-ad-oggi-20-anni-di-evoluzione-del-design-auto.html|titolo=Giolito dalla multipla ad oggi, 20 anni di evoluzione del design auto|accesso=18 ottobre 2014}}</ref> for the [[Fiat Multipla]] 1998 (exhibited at the MoMA in New York), and the [[Fiat 500 (2007)|Fiat 500]] of 2007, voted Car of the Year in 2008 and World Car Design of the Year 2009. |
'''Roberto Giolito''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] automobile designer, and [[Fiat]]'s head of design,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9e956d3bd1f725201ccd9bde20d11778|title= (dead link) Fiat's Design Approach: A Family in Harmony |date=1 December 2010|publisher=[[The New York Times]] (subscription required)|accessdate=8 January 2013}}</ref> known widely known<ref>{{cita web|url=http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=GIOLITO+Roberto|titolo=Il contributo di Roberto Giolito al design automobilistico moderno|accesso=18 ottobre 2014}}</ref><ref name=automoto>{{cita web|url=http://www.automoto.it/news/roberto-giolito-dalla-multipla-ad-oggi-20-anni-di-evoluzione-del-design-auto.html|titolo=Giolito dalla multipla ad oggi, 20 anni di evoluzione del design auto|accesso=18 ottobre 2014}}</ref> for the [[Fiat Multipla]] 1998 (exhibited at the MoMA in New York), and the [[Fiat 500 (2007)|Fiat 500]] of 2007, voted Car of the Year in 2008 and World Car Design of the Year 2009. |
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Roberto Giolito is an Italian automobile designer, and Fiat's head of design,[1] known widely known[2][3] for the Fiat Multipla 1998 (exhibited at the MoMA in New York), and the Fiat 500 of 2007, voted Car of the Year in 2008 and World Car Design of the Year 2009.
Biography and career
Born in 1962 in Ancona, Italy, Giolito began his design career in 1980 with Fiat. In 2001, he was nominated to be chief director at Fiat S.p.A. and is currently the head of Fiat & Abarth Design. He continues to work on new small models for the company.
Giolito graduated in industrial design at the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries (ISIA) in Rome in 1985. For four years he worked in graphic, communications and furniture design before joining Fiat in 1989 — where he conceived environmentally friendly, alternative fuel prototypes.
In 1998 he designed the much discussed and highly controversial Fiat Multipla, both criticized and praised, achieving only meager commercial success, and becoming part of the New York MoMa permanent collection. Proclaimed "Car of the Year" by the magazine "Top Gear" and for several consecutive years was awarded the " Family car of the year". +
Beginning in 2001, Giolito directs Fiat's Advanced Design Center: a team of designers, visual communication experts, engineers and independent marketers independent studying alternative mobility solutions.
In 2007, after the introduction of the FIAT 500, his most commercially successful design, Giolito was promoted to Design Chief for Fiat and Abarth. He currently still acts as vice president of the Design Center for the European market for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Giolito is responsible, with Giorgio Blacks, for the FIAT 500 brand, overseeing the 500 family, now including the Fiat 500L and Fiat 500X.
Giolito designs
Honors
- Designer of the year 2009[citation needed]
References
- ^ "(dead link) Fiat's Design Approach: A Family in Harmony". The New York Times (subscription required). 1 December 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Il contributo di Roberto Giolito al design automobilistico moderno". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "Giolito dalla multipla ad oggi, 20 anni di evoluzione del design auto". Retrieved 18 October 2014.