Designer Investigation

 

Giorgetto Giugiaro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgetto_Giugiaro
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/giugiaro.html

1. Giorgetto Giugiaro is known as an italian automobile designer and was born in Baressio, Cuneo, Piedmont on August 7th, 1938
2. Grew up with painters. His father was a painter and his grandfather was a church painter.After moving to Turin, Giorgetto switched between art, and technical design.  
3. Some of Giugiaro's accomplishments was when he was named Car Designer of the Century 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. 
4.  Giugiaro has designed a number of products for major companies such as, camera bodies for Nikon and computer prototypes for Apple.
5. In 1999, in Las Vegas, a jury of more than 120 journalists coming from all over the world,
   had elected Giorgetto Giugiaro as designer of the century.
6. In 2001 Giugiaro, together with 12 prestigious figures in the automobile industry, was
7. chosen by an international jury to be ‘immortalized’ in the ‘hall of fame’ at the Palaexpo in Geneva.
8. His work is known for more sports cars and has a very unique design model for each of his creations.
9. He is responsible for a stable of super cars and several of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today.
10. His creations make the cars look technical as if they are from the future and fast with the unique designs that make them different than a regular everyday model.

 

Jasper Morrison

 http://www.jaspermorrison.com/html/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Morrison

1. Jasper Morrison is an english product furniture designer that was born in London in 1959.
2. He graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School.
3. He also went to the Royal College of Art for Postgraduate studies and in 1984 studied at Berlins HdK on a scholarship.
4. In 1986 Morrison set up an Office for Design in London.
5. He was later invited to take part in "Design Werkstadt" where he exhibited some of his house items.
6. Later he started designing products for big companies such as FSB, SCP, the Office furniture company Vitra, and the italian furniture producer Cappellini.
7. In 1995 Jasper Morrison's office was awarded the contract to design the new Hannover Tram, the largest European light rail production contract of its time.
8. In 1997, the first vehicle was presented to the public at the Hannover Industrial Fair and awarded the IF Transportation Design Prize and Ecology award.
9. His designs are known to be creative and have a unique style to each one of his furniture pieces that make them look comfortable.
10. Along with furniture, Morrison also creates tableware, lighting, and electricals. All which have their own unique look to them making his products successful.

The creative Eva Zeisel was born in Budapest in 1906. With the intensions of becoming a painter, she entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 17. He mother prevailed upon her to learn some trade so she could learn a living. She felt that the world of fine art was risky. A year later, Eva was displayed at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial where she won an honorable mention. Eva then started working as a designer in the Kispester Factory in Budapest. She loved to travel and always dreamed to widen her experience around the world but at the same time increase her skills. She later moved to Schramber, Germany, where she gained the skills of industrial production and became one of the first to move the ceramic arts into contemporary mass production. Eva is known for her beautiful art work of furniture and collectables. There unique shapes of edges make her work different than any others. An interesting time in Eva’s life was in 1936, she got caught up in one of the Stalinist purges and accused of plotting against the life of Stalin. She was imprisoned in the NKVD prison for 16 months. She was subjected to early forms of brainwashing, torture, and the constant possibility that each day would be her last. Eva has had quite the journey of a lifetime to get to where she is today. With the addition to receiving many honors and achievements, Eva’s work will always be known for its unique designs .

http://www.evazeisel.org/

http://www.evazeiseloriginals.com/