Alma mater Art Center Home town Greenwich Role Designer | Name Jason Castriota Years active 1997–present | |
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Known for Mantide, among many other designs Website JasonCastriotaDesigns.comfacebook.com/castriotadesign Employer |
Jason castriota saab designer at the 2011 geneva auto show on driving the nation
Jason Castriota is an American automobile designer born in White Plains, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston and attended but dropped out of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. After his internship at the Pininfarina design studio, he decided to stay in Turin rather than return to the US to complete his studies. As a designer he took part in the design of production cars such as the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and Maserati GranTurismo, concept cars like the Maserati Birdcage 75th and the Rolls Royce Hyperion, and, as Head Designer for Special Projects, one-off exclusive cars for particular customers, such as the "Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina", a restyled Enzo Ferrari for American car collector James Glickenhaus, and the Ferrari 612 Kappa, a restyling of the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti for car collector Peter Kalikow.
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- Jason castriota saab designer at the 2011 geneva auto show on driving the nation
- Saab design chief jason castriota drives the new 9 5 saloon mpg
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Castriota left his position at Pininfarina on the eve of the Paris Motor Show in September 2008, and was set to become Design Director at Stile Bertone. He started his new position on December 1, 2008.

He took up the position of Director of Design at Stile Bertone in 2008 and then opened a design consultancy with offices in New York and Turin.

In June 2010, Saab Automobile hired Jason Castriota as its new design director. In 2014, Castriota joined a small product design firm in New York, Skylabs.
