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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Creation, Italian-Style | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...Stanford, where he later earned a graduate business degree, the running-shoe market continued to intrigue Knight. Would it be possible, he thought, for Japanese-made running shoes to grab a big share of the U.S. market, just as Nikon cameras were beginning to do in the field of photography? Two years after Knight's graduation in 1962, he and Bowerman went into partnership. They put up $500 each for 300 pairs of Tiger running shoes made by Onitsuka of Japan and stored them in Knight's father's basement. At first they sold them only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sagas of Five Who Made It | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...that he also became interested in learning how the general public would respond to the images. Would these viewers perceive the images differently? Would their reactions be more or less intense? Two years ago, Walker organized a "participatory exhibit" of his prints called "See & Tell," at Manhattan's Nikon House. Under each print were two boxes, labeled TAKE IT and LEAVE IT. Viewers could remove a card from one box and record their impressions, then drop it in the other box. They could also sample other people's opinions. "I had no intention of doing therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: See & Tell: Color Phototherapy | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...there are still a few shreds of the masculinity left. "Get that camera out of here, one newspaper man shouted when another reporter produced a Nikon. "My friends back home, not to mention my editor, would solder me if they knew I was here." And so the photographer left, but not before picking up a "Hospitality Bag" filled with free samples of products from hairspray to No-Doz. In the corner, Norma Lee is explaining one more time that business, or hospitality, is booming. "So far today, we've had over 100, more than half of them...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democracy in America | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...father? The estranged, British-born wife of Billionaire Saudi Dealmaker Adnan Khashoggi, 44, and former mistress of British M.P. Winston Churchill, 39, refuses to say. She is, however, happy to discuss another private passion: photography. And in the seclusion of her Venice villa she has turned her Nikon on her favorite subject-herself. "I have been a professional photographer for 15 years," she confides. "My work has been published, but Adnan never let me use my name, so they gave me all kinds of crazy credits." Her credit should improve if she wins the $2.5 billion divorce settlement Palimony Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 21, 1980 | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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