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Design ProFILES (DP), is the most comprehensive collection of profiles in design and design-related fields. It provides information about almost 16,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design, including over 1,000 female designers. It is therefore considered the largest product of its kind. It is updated quarterly, with over 5,000 new profiles added each year.
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Loewy, Raymond [1893-1986. USA. Industrial Designer] |
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Biography
Raymond Fernand Loewy [commonly known as Raymond Loewy] was born
in Paris on 8 November 1893. As a child he had an inventive mind.
At the age of 15 he designed and patented a rubber band-powered
model airplane, the Avril, and formed a company to produce it. He
studied electrical engineering at the Université de Paris
(1910-12), and, following military service during World War One,
took a Dip.Ing. at the Ecole de Lanneau, Paris (1918). The
following year he moved to New York, where, for a while he worked
as a window dresser, graphic designer and fashion illustrator,
producing illustrations for âVogueâ and âHarperâs
Bazaarâ. He began to make a name for himself as an industrial
designers in the late 1920s, and in 1929 co-founded the design
office Raymond Loewy William Snaith, Inc., in New York City. The
same year he redesigned the casing of the Gestetner 466S
duplicating machine. Over the next forty years Loewy was to leave
his mark on numerous products, from pencil sharpeners, cameras and
refrigerators to automobiles and trains, often in his trademark
streamlined style. In 1944 [some sources give the date as 1945] he
co-founded Raymond Loewy Associates (later renamed Raymond Loewy
International) and in 1952 he established the Compagnie de
I'Esthetique Industrielle in Paris. Notable projects by Loewy and
his studios include the design of the Coldspot refrigerator
(1929), the design of the CG-1 electric locomotive for
Pennsylvania Railroad (1936), the redesign of the Lucky Strike
cigarette pack (1942. Note: sources consulted also give date as
either 1939 or 1940), the design of the Studebaker Starliner
Coupé (1953), the design of the Greyhound bus (1954), the design
of the Studebaker Avanti (1961), the design of the Exxon logo
(1966), the design of the Shell logo (1967. Note: some sources
consulted give date as 1962), and the design of the U.S. Post
Office logo (1970). Loewyâs last significant contribution to
design was the interiors of the NASA Skylab (1967-73). In 1937 he
was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal
Society of Arts, London. Four decades later he received the
American Society of Industrial Designers Distinguished Achievement
Award (1978). Loewy became a US citizen in 1944. The same year he
was one of the 15 practitioner founders of the Society of
Industrial Designers. He was on the cover of âTimeâ magazine
in 1949, when his yearly gross sales exceeded $3 million and the
yearly sales of his products was $1 billion. At this time the
company employed more than 160 people and yet by the mid-1970s it
had run into serious financial difficulties and in 1977, the
office filed for bankruptcy and subsequently closed. Raymond Loewy
died in Monte Carlo on 14 July 1986.
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Accession Number
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References
Jodard, Paul. Raymond Loewy. London: Trefoil, 1992
Bayley, Stephen. The Lucky Strike packet by Raymond Loewy.
Frankfurt, Germany: Verlag Form, 1998
The designs of Raymond Loewy. Washington, DC: Renwick Gallery and
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975 [Exhibition catalogue]
Loewy, Raymond. The locomotive: its esthetics. London: The Studio,
1937
Loewy, Raymond. Never leave well enough alone. New York, NY: Simon
& Schuster, 1951
Loewy, Raymond. Industrial design. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press,
1979 |
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Resource Location
http://www.art.net/Lile/Loewy/loewy/designer.html |
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Resource Location
http://www.raymondloewy.com/ |
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Resource Location
http://www.djdddesignboom.com/portrait/loewy_bio.html |
Field Codes
The following field codes are used and searchable in the records currently being added to this database. Here they are listed in alphabetical order by two-letter code.
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BG = Biography
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RE = References
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