Enrico Fumia

Enrico Fumia is an Italian automobile and product designer. He is widely known for his work with the car design firm Pininfarina, helping to design and package a new sports car version of the Alfa Romeo, which included front-wheel drive and traversely-mounted engines. Today he runs Fumia Design Studio.

Career

1966: Fumia wins a Grifo d'Oro Bertone Design competition at age 18. Also this year he is responsible for a front end design of a Siata Spring
1967: Collaboration with Italian magazines Mark 3 and Autosprint.
1970: Collaboration with Count Mario Revelli di Beaumont's Office.
1976: Graduated Aeronautic Engineer at the Politecnico of Turin with an experimental thesis about vehicle's aerodynamics tested at the Pininfarina Wind Tunnel. Same year hired by Pininfarina - in charge of Styling and Industrial Design, Pre-engineering, Models and Prototyping manufacturing.
1982: Manager at Pininfarina R&D - Models and Prototypes Development.
1988: Manager at Pininfarina R&D - Design and Development.
1989: Deputy General Manager at Pininfarina R&D.
1991: Director of Centro Stile Lancia at Fiat Auto.
1996: Director of Diversified Design at Fiat Auto.
1999: Partnership with A. Sessano at Master Design Intl.
2002: Fumia Design Associati - Design & Engineering Studio.
2009: Fumia Design Studio - Creative Design Studio.