Background
Loewy, Raymond was born on November 5, 1893 in Paris. Son of Maximilian and Marie (Labalme) Loewy. naturalized, 1938.
( Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's stream...)
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs for thousands of consumer goods―everything from toasters and refrigerators to automobiles and ocean liners―radically changed the look of American life. Regarded as the father of modern industrial design, he appeared on the cover of Time in 1949; in 1990, he was selected as one of Life's "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Whether they realized it or not, Americans at mid-century lived in a Loewy-designed world, from the cigarettes they smoked (Lucky Strike's packaging), the soda they drank (the restaurant Coca-Cola dispenser), the toothpaste they used (Pepsodent's toothpaste tube), the cars they drove (his organization was Studebaker's design and styling department), the buses (Greyhound) and trains (the Pennsylvania Railroad) in which they rode, and the department stores (Gimbel's, Foley's, and Lord & Taylor) and grocery stores (Lucky) where they shopped. Never Leave Well Enough Alone was first published in 1951 at the height of Loewy's career. His company, Raymond Loewy Associates, served as design consultants to more than a hundred of the world's largest corporations, and products manufactured to their specifications sold in excess of $3 billion annually. Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part autobiography and part design manifesto. Acclaimed for its wit, its idiosyncracies, and its insight into the Loewy aesthetic, this volume stands as a remarkable document of the American Century and a still-vital meditation upon the importance of industrial design in daily life.
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Loewy, Raymond was born on November 5, 1893 in Paris. Son of Maximilian and Marie (Labalme) Loewy. naturalized, 1938.
Student, Paris University, 1910. Graduate engineering, Ecole de Lanneau, 1918. Doctor of Fine Arts, University Cincinnati, 1956.
Doctor of Fine Arts, Art Center College Design, 1970.
Art director Westinghouse Electric Company, 1929. Started private organization of industrial design, 1929. Founder Raymond Loewy International (consultant designers United States and foreign corporations, in fields of product design, transportation, package, retail specialized building design, corpora.
Consultant to National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Skylab station, recuperable earth shuttle orbiter, Saturn-Apollo applications, from 1967. Industrial design consultant to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Committee for Science and Technology, 1974-1986. Raymond Loewy exposition Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1975.
Member Superior Council Industrial Design, France, from 1975. Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Royal Society Arts, London, Leningrad Institute Arts, Moscow Committee Science and Technology, Industrial Design and Ergonometry. Board directors Art Center College Design, French Institute American.
( Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's stream...)
( Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's stream...)
(Never Leave Well Enough Alone, first published in 1951, i...)
Member Advisory Board Vocational Education, New York City Board Education. Member executive board Art Center College, Los Angeles. Member advisory committee industrial designers College Architecture, University California at Los Los Angeles Served as captain C.E., attached to General Staff 5th Army, 1914-1918, France.
Liaison officer, American Expeditionary Force. Fellow American Society Industrial Engineers (past president), Royal Society Arts London. Member French Chamber of Commerce of the United States (vice president 1958), Society Automotive Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Academy Achievement, Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society Space Medicine, American History R.R. Association (honorary life member) Clubs: Racquet (Palm Springs, California).
Son of Maximilian and Marie (Labalme) L. M. Viola Erickson, 1948. 1 daughter, Laurence.