Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewywas a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 November 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Raymond Loewy quotes about
support-you long people
People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.
believe people design
I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.
car should compact
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
civilization cities world
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
departure requirements taste
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
race trash modernism
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
science thinking understanding
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
doe sells ugliness
Ugliness does not sell.
numbers design comfort
Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
thinking benefits littles
No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.
america excellence quality
If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
beautiful daily-life claims
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.
cutting expression excellence
Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic.
believe profound intuition
I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.