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Raymond Loewy
(5 Nov 1893 - 14 Jul 1986)
French-American inventor and design engineer.
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Science Quotes by Raymond Loewy (6 quotes)
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
— Raymond Loewy
On the official Raymond Loewry website.
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.
— Raymond Loewy
On the official Raymond Loewry website.
Good design is not an applied veneer.
— Raymond Loewy
On the official Raymond Loewry website.
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
On the official Raymond Loewry website. Also quoted in part in Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, Designer (1980).
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.
— Raymond Loewy
As quoted in Christian Science Monitor (7 May 1952).
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.
— Raymond Loewy
On the official Raymond Loewry website.
See also:
- 5 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Loewy's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
