Carlo Bonzanigo is an Italian and Swiss
car designer who has worked for many years for the famous Italian Design House
Pininfarina
Pininfarina S.p.A. (short for Carrozzeria Pininfarina) is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930.
On 14 December 2015, the Indian mu ...
and for
Citroën
Citroën () is a French automobile brand. The "Automobiles Citroën" manufacturing company was founded in March 1919 by André Citroën. Citroën is owned by Stellantis since 2021 and previously was part of the PSA Group after Peugeot acquired ...
Design.
From 2015 to late 2016, he was director of the Automotive Division of Q-ID Industrial Design, Director of the Design Studio Q-Red in Maranello, Italy, and consultant for Ferrari Design, Maranello. From January 2017 to December 2019 he has been Senior Vice President Design at Pininfarina in Cambiano, near Turin.
Biography
Carlo Bonzanigo was born in
Lugano
Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...
in 1966. He holds a Master of Arts in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (specialization in Aeronautical Engineering) from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in
Zurich, Switzerland.
Career
He began his career as a designer in 1995 with Pininfarina Design in Turin. A few years later, as Design Manager under Lorenzo Ramaciotti, he was responsible for the Concept Cars Pininfarina
Citroën Osée (2001) for which he designed the interior and the Pininfarina Ford Start (2003), as well as for the
Maserati Gran Turismo
The Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio are a series of a grand tourers produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Maserati. They succeeded the 2-door V8 grand tourers offered by the company, the Maserati Coupé, and Spyder.
GranTurismo I ( ...
production Coupé (2003).
In 2004, he joined the
PSA Peugeot Citroën Group as Chief Designer at the Citroën Design Studio in
Vélizy near Paris. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Concept Cars and International Cooperation Programs, and one year later Head of Advanced Design.
He was part of the team led by Jean Pierre Ploué that resurrected Citroën Design and created the new DS Brand “ex nihilo”.
In 2021 he published the essay « CARS, DESIGN AND EMOTIONS – In praise of aesthetical pleasure » edited by Artioli Editore 1899, Modena, Italy.
During his tenure with the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group he was Head of Exterior and Interior Design for the production cars
C3 Picasso (2008), C3 Aircross (2010),
C4 Aircross (2012) and C1 (2014), as well as the Concept Cars DS Hypnos (2008), DS Revolte (2009), Citroen Tubik (2011), DS Numéro 9 (2012), C1 Swiss and Me (2014) and C1 Urban Ride (2014).
In 2008, he was appointed “Maître Expert Design” of the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, representing the “Design expertise” of the Group in congresses and international committees from 2008 to 2012.
From 2015 to late 2016, he was director of the Automotive Division of Q-ID Industrial Design, Director of the Design Studio Q-Red in Maranello, Italy, and consultant for Ferrari Design, Maranello.
During his tenure as Pininfarina Senior Vice President Design, the Italian company has carried out a large number of projects: a range of show cars for the Hong Hong based Hybrid Kinetic Brand (HK GT, HK 500 Sedan and HK350 SUV), the GT by Pininfarina for the Californian Brand Karma, presented at the 2019 Shanghai motor show, the Lux A 2.0 Sedan and the Lux SA 2.0 SUV, first 2 models for the Vietnamese OEM Vinfast. His Team has also designed, in collaboration with Automobili Pininfarina, the
Battista electric Hypercar, presented at the 2019 Geneva motor show.
In 2021 he published the essay « CARS, DESIGN AND EMOTIONS – In praise of aesthetical pleasure » edited by Artioli Editore 1899, Modena, Italy.
References
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Italian automobile designers
1966 births
Living people
People from Lugano