Luigi Colani

Truck prototype designed by Colani

Truck prototype Designs by Colani

Personal Computer for Vobis

AGOS Computer Serie: Opus Magnum, Design by Colani, 2009

Luigi Colani, (born in Berlin on 2 August 1928 as Lutz Colani), is a Swiss-born German industrial designer^[1] whose father came from Madulain near St. Moritz in Switzerland.

The prime characteristic of his designs are the rounded, organic forms, which he terms "biodynamic" and claims are ergonomically superior to traditional designs. His "kitchen satellite" from 1969 is the most prominent example of this school of thought. Many of his designs for small appliances are being mass-produced and marketed, but his larger designs have not been built, "a whole host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option."^[2]

The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round. — Luigi Colani^[3]

He has received numerous design awards.

Colani currently resides in Karlsruhe, Germany. His son Solon Luigi Lutz also works as a designer. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

Career timeline[link]

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1946

Studied sculpture at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (academy of fine arts).

1948

Study of aerodynamics at Université Paris-Sorbonne in Paris, France.

1953

Head of New Materials project group at McDonnell-Douglas in California.

1954

Receives the Golden Rose international prize for creation and design, in Geneva, Switzerland, for special Fiat bodywork; he is the originator of many Fiat designs in the coming years.

1957

Colani's Alfa Romeo design is the first sports car to clock a lap of under 10 minutes at the Nürburgring; it can now be seen in the Martini Rosso Museum.

1958

Catamaran racing success in Hawaii

1959

The world's first monocoque sports car: BMW 700

1960

World's first kit car in series: 1700 cars, Colani GT

1963

Elephant piggy bank

1965

Worldwide success with furniture design: Asko, Fritz-Hansen, Cor, Kusch+Co.

1966

Sports coupe, IAA Frankfurt

1968

Two piece plastic cutlery for Thai airlines, Museum of Design Zurich^[4]

1970

Headquarters with major design team at Harkotten Castle near Sassenberg, Germany. Enormous success, work and exhibitions worldwide for many companies of major repute.

1972

Design of Eifelland Formula One car. First contacts with Japanese companies. Unsuccessful design for an Olympic rowing boat ^[5]

1973

First Far East study trip; Japan recognizes Colani's potential. Invitation by five companies to establish a Colani Design Center Japan. Rosenthal's Teapot Drop designed by Colani in Cooper-Hewitt Museum in N.Y.

1976

RFB Fanliner, the first plastic sports airplane with a Wankel rotary engine constructed

1978

Revolutionary trucks, aircraft, car and ship studies at exhibitions worldwide

1981

Fuel economy world record set by the Colani 2CV (based on the French Citroën 2CV, 1.7 litres for 100 km with the original 2CV engine and chassis.

1982

Relocation to Japan

1983

Professor in Japan/Tokyo "5 Systems" camera prototypes for Canon^[6]

1984

No. 1 industrial designer in Japan; Otaru exhibition, 60 m large shell

1985

Colani Robot Theatre most-attended at the Tokyo Tsukuba Expo. Pontresins propeller-driven airplane unveiled, having two contra-rotating coaxial pusher propellers with scimitar blades mounted in the tail. The propellers, also known as "centripetal supersonic propellers", were a new design idea. The plane was a design study and is not airworthy.

1986

Receives the Golden Camera Award for the Canon T90. Colani motorcycle world record in Italy. Foundation of the Colani Design Bern, Switzerland.

1987

Colani exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Car design for Mazda, Japan. Pen design for Pelikan A.G., Germany. Cormoran aircraft design displayed as mockup at Paris Air Show

1988

Toulouse and Bremen branch offices. Professor h.c. of the University of the Arts Bremen Preparation on a widescale basis for record speed on land, water and air and economy world records in Utah, USA

1989

Sony headphones by Colani placed in Museum of Modern Art, New York. Formation of the company Colani Trading AG in Zürich, Switzerland

1990

Exhibition in Centre International de l'Automobile car museum in Paris; Presentation of the new Swissair uniforms designed by Colani

1991

Creation of optical frames and jewelry collection; Colani Ferrari sets record at Bonneville Speedway in Utah

1992

Computer mouse design for Sicos; creation of the Colani cosmetics collection; Colani signs a contract with European computer chain Vobis of Germany

1993

Presentation of the Colani field glasses; Shopping center exposition through Switzerland

1994

Colani Vobis Highscreen computer gets award for the Computer of the Year 1994. Cooperation with Carl Zeiss Jena

1995

Cologne, Germany opens new head office of Colani's design works. Designs for major companies in the construction and building industry. China's ambassador invited Colani for future projects to Shanghai, China. Awarded Honorary professorship in the Department of architecture college of architecture and urban planning at Tongji University, Shanghai^[7]

1996

Office furniture designs for Grahl, Michigan USA. Architecture project presentation for Shanghai, China, called Bio-City.

1997

Created a new piano for famous piano builder Wilhelm Schimmel. Start of the DESIGN-show through more than 30 shopping centers in Germany.

1998

Start of a bank terminal design project with one of the world's leading computer manufacturers. Design for a new microscope and photo camera at the Colani Shanghai office. Water bottle design for Carolinen-Brunnen, Germany.

1999

Presentation of a new "shower" (bathroom-combination)-generation for the German company Dusar. Furniture project with Kusch & Co., Germany. A world leader in porcelain, Rosenthal, Germany, plans to promote a special edition of the famous "Drop" teapot designed by Colani.

2000

"Human-City" architecture model by MW Energie AG in Mannheim, Germany. Colani optical frames presentation at optical shows in Milan, Paris and Las Vegas.

2001

Design for a new microscope and photo camera (for Seagull) at the Colani Shanghai office. Six exhibitions through shopping malls (ECE-group) throughout Germany. COLANI-Calendar for Castrol-Germany.

2002

Leading Swiss mineral-water company Valser (acquired by Coca-Cola in 2002) presents new bottle design by Colani. Start of another exhibition-tour through over 25 shopping malls (until 2004) by ECE-Group. Opening of a world-leading museum of design, Pinakothek, in Munich, Germany (including several Colani designs). Spitzer-Silo presents new Colani truck at IAA in Hannover, Germany.

2003

Uniforms designed for the Hamburg Police (adopted later in whole Germany). Designed the tt-62-plane for hp-aircraft.de. Futuristic car design: Speedster shark (see "Visions").

2004

Guest Speaker and Presenter at World Economic Forum WEF in Davos, Switzerland. Porcelain giftware creations (Cappuccino, Espresso mugs). "Life on Board" project for Volvo cars House design for Hanse-Haus, Germany.

2005

Design study for a passenger airplane with 1,000 seats Study for a robot shaped like a baby

Completion of a series of 140 sculptures of athletes for the Olympic Games in Beijing Participation in the "Germany in Japan 2005-6" event in the form of the "Colani Back in Japan" exhibition in the Museum for Kunst and Design attached to the Kyoto Institute of Technology.

2006

Completion of a Colani Supertruck with extreme streamlining Colani lecture at Nancyhalle/Karlsruhe with Karim Rashid Tokyo designers week speech in Tokyo.

2009

Presentation of the first AGOS Computer Series, Opus Magnum, designed by Colani at the Nowa Zukunftsmesse in Marburg, Germany. ^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Colani Design Germany GmbH
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• Colani Museum
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• Japanese Colani fan web site
• 3 pictures of the Kitchen Satellite
• TT62 Alekto
• 1968 Two piece plastic cutlery in Museum of Design Zurich collection
• Concept Trucks of Future
• Website of his son's design company

Luigi Cozzi
Cozzi in 2011.
Born	(1947-09-07) September 7, 1947 (age 64) Busto Arsizio, Italy
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Luigi Cozzi (born September 7, 1947) is an Italian movie director and screenwriter who directed mainly science fiction and horror films in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s. He was born in 1947 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.

Biography[link]

Cozzi has been interested in film making since his teen years, producing a low budget science fiction film at age 21 called The Tunnel Under the World^[1], which brought him to the attention of producer Dario Argento. Cozzi worked as an assistant director and screenwriter on a number of Argento's most famous movies, even directing a made-for-TV movie called The Neighbor for the "Doorway To Darkness" television series produced by Argento in 1973.

Cozzi's first professional film was a 1975 giallo he made called The Killer Must Kill Again after which he was hired to direct a number of bigger budget science fiction and fantasy films, such as Contamination, Starcrash^[2], Hercules and Hercules 2. Cozzi worked with a lot of well-known genre actors such as Caroline Munro, Sybil Danning, Lou Ferrigno, Joe Spinnell, Klaus Kinski, and Brett Halsey.

In 1986, he wrote and planned to direct Sinbad of the Seven Seas, but the producer replaced him at the last minute with director Enzo Castellari. Castellari changed Cozzi's script drastically and several million dollars later, wound up submitting three hours of non-releasable footage to the producer, who shelved the project. In 1989, Cozzi was hired back to come in and fix up the picture, the producer spending an additional half million dollars finishing it.

Cozzi wrote a script he called De Profundis, which was supposed to be an unauthorized finale to Dario Argento's unfinished "Three Mothers" Trilogy (begun in his films Suspiria and Inferno). Cozzi shot the film as "De Profundis" (which means "From the Deep") starring Caroline Munro, but the American distributors (who at that time were planning a series of Edgar Allan Poe films) changed the title of Cozzi's film to "The Black Cat" at the last minute, although the film had no connection to Poe. Their Poe film series, however, never materialized. Cozzi's retitled film received very poor (if any) distribution, and does not seem to have ever been released on video. Cozzi later discovered that director Lucio Fulci had expressed an interest in directing his screenplay, without realizing that Cozzi had already directed the film himself. (It's probably just as well, since Fulci had already directed a film called The Black Cat back in 1981.

Cozzi also worked on the special effects in Dario Argento's Phenomena, and was an assistant director on The Stendahl Syndrome, Two Evil Eyes and Nosferatu in Venice (a sequel to Nosferatu the Vampyre which gave him the chance to work with Klaus Kinski). When Mario Caiano (the director on Nosferatu in Venice) quit the picture unexpectedly, Kinski attempted to finish directing it himself, and the producer brought Cozzi in to help Kinski co-direct it. The film did very poorly, mainly because Kinski refused to wear the Nosferatu make-up he wore in the earlier film. Cozzi also co-wrote the screenplays for Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Lamberto Bava's Jaws knock-off Monster Shark. Some of his work was done under his Americanized stage name Lewis Coates.

Cozzi's final horror film Paganini Horror was a major disappointment to him, since he was unable to work effectively within the tiny budget he was given. Argento's wife Daria Nicolodi co-wrote the script with Cozzi and starred in it. In 1987-88, Cozzi directed 9 episodes of the Italian television series Turno Di Notte (some of which starred Asia Argento and Daria Nicolodi). He later made two documentaries on the films of Dario Argento, and for years operated and managed Dario Argento's retail movie memorabilia store in Italy.

Filmography (as Director)[link]

• The Neighbor (1973) Italian made-for-TV Movie, this was an episode of Dario Argento's "Doorway To Darkness" series
• Eyewitness (1973) Italian made-for-TV Movie (Cozzi just wrote the screenplay; he didn't direct this film)
• The Killer Must Kill Again (1975) aka "The Spider/ Il Ragno", giallo starring George Hilton
• Take All of Me (1978) aka "Dedicated to a Star" (drama)
• Starcrash (1979) aka "Stella Star", aka "Female Space Invaders". starring Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff and Joe Spinnell
• Contamination (1980) aka "Toxic Spawn", aka "Alien Contamination", starring Ian McCulloch
• Hercules (1983) starring Lou Ferrigno & Sybil Danning
• Hercules 2 (1985) aka "The Adventures of Hercules", starring Lou Ferrigno & William Berger
• Turno di Notte (1987–88) Cozzi directed nine episodes of this Italian TV series (some of which starred Asia Argento and Daria Nicolodi)
• Nosferatu in Venice (1988) aka "Vampire in Venice", starring Klaus Kinski (Cozzi co-directed this film)
• Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) starring Lou Ferrigno (Cozzi co-wrote, co-directed and edited this film)
• De Profundis/ From The Deep (1989) aka "The Black Cat" or "Demons 6" (starring Caroline Munro & Brett Halsey)
• Paganini Horror (1989) co-written by Daria Nicolodi
• Dario Argento: Master of Horror (1991) (documentary on Dario Argento)
• Il Mondo di Dario Argento 3: The Museum of Horrors (1997) aka "The World of Dario Argento 3" (documentary on Dario Argento)

References[link]

• Luigi Cozzi at the Internet Movie Database

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Caroline Munro (born 16 January 1949^[1]) is an English actress and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Biography[link]

Early career[link]

According to Munro, her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain's The Evening News "Face of the Year" contest.

I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to Art School in Brighton but I was not very good at it. I just did not know what to do. I had a friend at the college who was studying photography and he needed somebody to photograph and he asked me. Unbeknownst to me, he sent the photographs to a big newspaper in London. The famous fashion photographer, David Bailey, was conducting a photo contest and my picture won.^[2]

This led to modelling chores, her first job being for Vogue magazine at the age of 17. She moved to London to pursue top modelling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and TV advertisements while there. Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale (1967) and Where's Jack? (1969). One of her many photo ads got her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark's daughter in the comedy/western A Talent for Loving (1969).

1969 proved to be a good year for Munro, because it was then that she began a lucrative 10 year relationship with Lamb's Navy Rum. Her image was plastered all over the country, and this would eventually lead to her next big break.

1971 saw her appear alongside Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes, playing the deceased Mrs. Victoria Regina Phibes:

The most challenging scenes involved lying in the coffin with Vincent," she reveals. "You see, I’m allergic to feathers and I was attired in this beautiful negligee — but it was covered with feathers! It took a great deal of willpower not to sneeze or sniffle. On occasion, I would simply have to sneeze and this would result in having to do another take.

She would reprise the role in the sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again in 1972. In the same year, she was referred to in Colin Blunstone's song "Caroline Goodbye", a song about the break-up of their relationship.

Hammer Horror films[link]

Hammer Films CEO Sir James Carreras spotted Munro on a Lamb’s Navy Rum poster/billboard. He asked his right hand man, James Liggett, to find and screen test her. She was immediately signed to a one-year contract. Her first film for Hammer proved to be something of a turning point in her career. It was during the making of Dracula AD 1972 that she decided from this film onward she was a full-fledged actress. Up until then, she was always considered a model who did some acting on the side.

Munro completed her contract for Hammer with Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter in 1974. Directed by Brian Clemens, she plays the barefoot gypsy girl Carla. In Paramount Pictures DVD commentary, Clemens explains that he envisioned the role as a fiery, Raquel Welch type, red-head. Hammer pushed for Munro, and the script was adapted accordingly.

Munro has the distinction of being the only actor ever signed to a long-term contract by Hammer Films. She would later turn down the lead female roles in Hammer's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, and the unmade Vampirella because they required nudity.

[edit] The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Brian Clemens later helped her get the role of Margiana, the slave girl in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974).

I got the part — I had been signed by Hammer, for one year, for a contract, out of which I did two films, one being Dracula AD 1972, and the second one being Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter, which, kind of, would come full-circle, to Sinbad. It was written and directed by Brian Clemens, who wrote the screenplay for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, so, I was lucky enough to be chosen for Captain Kronos, and they were searching for somebody to do Sinbad, and they wanted a big name, somebody American, or well-known, but Brian said "No". He kept lobbying Charles Schneer [producer] and Ray Harryhausen — saying: 'I think you should come and look at the rushes, and see what you think, because I think she's right'. So, they said "No", but, eventually, Brian persuaded them to do that, and they saw the rushes, and that was how I got the part. So, it was lovely, like work-out-of-work. I was very lucky to have done that.^[3]

Other appearances during this time included I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) with Joan Collins, and At the Earth's Core (1976) with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure. She appeared also as Tammy, a nursing employee of a sinister health farm, in "The Angels of Death" (1977),^[4] an episode of the TV series The New Avengers that featured also rising stars Pamela Stephenson and Lindsay Duncan. This was notable, among other things, for a vicious fight between Munro and Joanna Lumley's Purdey.

James Bond[link]

In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman in favor of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, who seductively winks at Bond while trying to gun him down from her helicopter. In her role as Naomi, she holds the distinction of being the first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond. Cubby Broccoli urged Caroline to make her way to America in search of more lucrative offers. She declined, preferring to stay close to her family.

Late 1970s and 1980s[link]

Munro continued to work in numerous British and European horror and science fiction films through the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Starcrash (1979) with David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer and Marjoe Gortner.

Munro's career continued to thrive well in the 1980s, appearing in many slasher and Eurotrash productions. Her first film shot on American soil was the William Lustig production Maniac (1980). This was soon followed by the "multi-award winning, shot during the Cannes Film Festival" shocker The Last Horror Film (1982) (directed by David Winters), in which she was reunited with her Maniac co-star Joe Spinell. She had a cameo role in the cult classic slasher Don't Open 'Til Christmas as a singer (1984), Slaughter High (1986), Paul Naschy's Howl of the Devil (1987), and Jess Franco's Faceless (1988), followed in rapid succession. She reteamed with Starcrash director, Luigi Cozzi, for Il Gatto nero in 1989. This would be Caroline's last major film appearance.

Throughout the 1980s, Munro was often cited by the press as being a candidate for the co-starring role in a proposed (but never produced) feature film based upon Doctor Who. The feature was being co-produced by her second husband George Dugdale. At various times, press reports linked her with numerous actors touted to play the role of The Doctor.

Music and television[link]

In 1984, she signed a recording contract with Gary Numan's label Numa Records, and released a catchy dance single called "Pump Me Up". Written and produced by Numan, the single hardly sold, and Numan admitted later that his label was probably to blame. His original version of the single can be found on his 1984 album Berserker.

Munro also provided vocals and lyrics for the song "Warrior of Love" which she sang in the film Don't Open Till Christmas. The song was never officially released, although it can be found easily on the internet.

Between 1984 and 1987, Munro was also a hostess on the Yorkshire Television game show 3-2-1. Munro was also a popular pin-up girl during this time, though she refused to pose nude. In the early 1980s, she appeared in music videos with Adam Ant and Meat Loaf.

Reduced appearances in the nineties[link]

By the 1990s, Munro had decided to focus more on her family, daughters, Georgina and Iona, and husband George. Her sole film roles were confined to cameos as herself in Night Owl (1993), as Mrs. Pignon in To Die For (1994), and playing the counsellor in director and friend Jeffrey Arsenault's Domestic Strangers (1996). Other work included a guest-starring spot in a 1992 episode of Tropical Heat, interviews for Ted Newsom's 100 Years of Horror documentaries and the Hammer Films tribute: Flesh and Blood - The Hammer Heritage of Horror.

Other information[link]

• The song "Caroline Goodbye" on the 1971 LP "One Year" by Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies, is about the break-up of their relationship. This was his first solo album.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Caroline Munro at the Internet Movie Database
• Caroline Munro at AllRovi
• Caroline Munro Official Website
• Caroline Munro at HorrorStars
• interview with Munro
• Audio interview at BBC Wiltshire
• Den Of Geek interview Caroline Munro
• Cult Sirens profile
• Margiana website
• The World of Hammer Glamour's extensive overview over Caroline Munro's life and career
• Caroline Munro Interview 2008

Luigi Vitale

Personal information
Full name	Luigi Vitale
Date of birth	(1987-10-05) October 5, 1987 (age 24)
Place of birth	Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	Bologna on loan from Napoli
Number	19
Youth career
2002–2004	Avellino
2004–2005	Napoli
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005–	Napoli	28	(1)
2007–2008	→ Lanciano (loan)	28	(0)
2009–2010	→ Livorno (loan)	22	(1)
2011–	→ Bologna (loan)	0	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:21, 12 July 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Luigi Vitale (born 5 October 1987) is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Bologna, on loan from Napoli.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile on Napoli's official website

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Luigi Sacco (Alba, 1 August 1883 – Rome, 5 December 1970) was an Italian general and cryptanalyst.^[1]

Bibliography[link]

Manual of Cryptology ("Manuale di Crittografia") (1936) ISBN 0-89412-016-6

References[link]

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