Luigi Colani received numerous design awards, although his unconventional approach left him largely an outsider from the mainstream of industrial design.
22 Facts About Luigi Colani
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Luigi Colani's catamaran design was a racing success in Hawaii.
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Luigi Colani rebodied an Abarth Alfa Romeo design, based on two wrecked Abarth 1000 GT Coupes in the early 1960s.
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Luigi Colani had developed a sufficient reputation and income by 1970 to establish a studio with a major design team at Harkotten Castle near Sassenberg, Germany.
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Luigi Colani received invitations by five companies to establish a Colani Design Center Japan.
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The year 1982 saw Luigi Colani relocating to Japan, where a year later he accepted a position as professor in Tokyo.
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Luigi Colani continued to show his designs at international exhibitions, including a 1987 show at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
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Luigi Colani was appointed a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen, as he meanwhile prepared on a wide-scale basis to establish new speed records on land, water and air and economy world records in Utah.
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Luigi Colani set records in a specially-designed Ferrari at Bonneville Speedway in 1991.
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In 1989, Luigi Colani organized AUTOMORROW '89 where 12 futuristic vehicles toured the US from coast to coast in two trucks.
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Luigi Colani mounted an exhibition at the Centre International de l'Automobile car museum in Paris and in 1993 held shopping center expositions through Switzerland.
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Luigi Colani designed new uniforms for aircrew at Swissair, the last designs used by the airline before re-branding as Swiss in 2002.
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Luigi Colani designed new optical frames presented at shows in Milan, Paris and Las Vegas and in 2001 designed a new microscope and photo camera at the Colani Shanghai office.
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Luigi Colani held more than thirty exhibitions in shopping malls throughout Germany.
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Luigi Colani opened of a world-leading museum of design, Pinakothek der Moderne, in Munich, Germany which featured several Colani designs.
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Luigi Colani undertook a "Life on Board" project for Volvo cars and created a futuristic car design called the Speedster shark.
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Luigi Colani continued his large Supertruck designs with extreme streamlining, this time for Spitzer-Silo; the result was presented at the IAA in Hanover, Germany.
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Luigi Colani completed a design study for a 1,000 seat passenger airplane.
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Luigi Colani completed a series of 140 sculptures of athletes for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Luigi Colani carried out a study for a robot shaped like a baby.
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Luigi Colani was married to Ya Zhen Zhao since the 1990s and resided in Shanghai, China.
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Luigi Colani was a guest speaker and presenter at the 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.