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
accused designer
I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
design black clients
Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.
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.
numbers design comfort
Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
design important designer
Design is too important to be left to designers.
design veneer good-design
Good design is not an applied veneer.
design black graphic-artist
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
becoming believe business competition gets however impressive instead leading match points public smug states sufficient trivial united valid vulnerable
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor.
function products
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
automobile changed member society
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
avoiding career colleagues create difficult early ecstasy essence found helped life meant reconcile rest styles success total tried
My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
poorly
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
alarm archaic banks filled objects places
The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.
noisy smelly
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.