User:Gionny123/Luciano Bove

Professional experience
Luciano Bove was born in Nocera Inferiore in 1963 in Province of Salerno in Regione Campania.

He graduated in 1989 in Human Science in the field of Transportation Design in ArtCenter College of Design at Pasadena California- USA.

At the end of 1989 he starts his exterior designer career at FIAT Design Center in Mirafiori Torino, under the leadership of the architect Ermanno Cressoni e Chris Bangle.

After completing some important projects such as the Fiat Seicento, Luciano Bove moved to France to pursue his career as design manager at Renault under the direction of Patrick Le Quément.

During this period Luciano Bove was part of the LCV (Light Commercial Vechicles) design team under the direction of Jean-François Venet and Piero Stroppa, one of the most significant projects being the Renault Kangoo II. The latter completed under the direction of Louis Morasse.

In 2007, Patrick Lecharpy (Advanced Design Director) entrusted him with the design management of the Twizy project, the first electric vehicle in Renault's EV (Electric Vehicle) range, designed by François Leboine.

In 2010, Luciano Bove integrated the LCI (Centre for Research and Design) design team headed by Patrick Lecharpy by developing several projects, combining high technology and design with the creation of working prototypes. Many of these projects, however, have not been published for reasons of confidentiality.

In 2017, with Patrick Lecharpy, he organised the Renault Design Academy India in the Renault Design studio in Chennai. An innovative recruitment programme for young talent in India implemented through the use of socials and a new website organised for the occasion. In simple terms, an online selection of the best four talents, who were taken on an internship for six months in the Renault Design studio in Chennai to realise four projects with related scale models. At the end of the internship, the winning project was designed in full scale and presented in 2018 at the New Delhi Motor Show.

From 2018 to 2021 Luciano Bove took over the design projects of the Jinbei brand in Shenyang, China (Renault/Brilliance joint venture). During this period he designed the Haise King project (a commercial vehicle for the Chinese market) that went into production in 2021.

From 2021, reintegrated at Renault's Design Centre in France, Luciano Bove will direct production LCV design projects but also light concepts such as the Renault Trafic Hippie Caviar Hotel (2021) & the Renault Kangoo Hippie Caviar Motel (2022).

From 1992 to 2000, Luciano Bove taught (as a second professional activity) Car Design in 3 schools (Art Center Europe in Vevey in CH, IED & IAAD in Turin in Italy) in order to spread his passion for Car Design as much as possible to young talents.

Since 2006, Luciano Bove has had his own website and continues to share his expertise with many car design enthusiasts through educational videos and tutorials on his YouTube channel and Instagram.

Since 2000, he has lived and worked in France near Paris.