Word: italic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Ital Design was retained to develop Nikon's F3 35-mm camera, Giugiaro looked beyond styling to make the most of the camera's improved technology. The motor drive attaches to the bottom of the camera, providing a low center of gravity that offsets the weight of a projecting lens. In addition, the comfortable hand grip is constructed in such a way as to permit stable one-hand operation...
Giugiaro rose to early fame with his automobile designs, notably the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT and the first post-Bug Volkswagens. His firm, Ital Design, with some 200 employees, has created such diverse products as Necchi electronic sewing machines, a Nikon camera, Nikon sunglasses, the Isuzu Piazza auto, an electric organ, ski bindings, buses, cigarette lighters and a complete set of street furniture for the city of Turin-trash cans, street signs, lights and tram stations. Constantly adding to his list of international clients, Giugiaro expects to have an exploratory meeting soon with General Motors to talk about designing...
This is the way things work at Ital Design. Giugiaro maintains a large engineering staff to solve functional and production problems as the design evolves. One example of this comprehensive approach, cited by Giugiaro, is the door of his Fiat Panda. The recessed door hinges are covered with plates on the outside. Giugiaro's hinges make it unnecessary for an assembler to work on the cramped inside of an auto-the outside hinges can be installed with ease...
Commissions for Giugiaro now seem to come in faster than the awards Ital Design keeps winning. They include a new electric razor for N.V. Philips of Holland, a television set for Saba of Germany, an electronic scale for Yamato Scale Co. of Japan and the interior for a personal helicopter for the President of Italy...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...