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America is full
of the work of
Raymond Loewy.
He once jokingly
described himself
as an industrial
beautician, and
he said his aim
was to close the
gap "between the
quality of American
products and
their clumsy, ugly
appearance"
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When Loewy
fought in the first
world war he
redesigned the
French Army's
standard-issue
uniform because
he thought it was
ugly. But his first
design was for a
model airplane
driven by rubber
bands, which he
patented when he
was 15 years old
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The immigrant
Loewy had a
talent for coming
up with designs
which captured
the essence of his
adopted country.
Many of them went
on to symbolise
the American way
of life. Among
Raymond Loewy's
clients were Coke,
Lucky Strike and
the Greyhound Bus
company
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Loewy designed
the logos for two
oil companies,
Shell and Exxon.
His Shell logo of
1971 was a
Loewy classic,
simple and
striking. In 1992
Shell changed
Loewy's bold
colors to give the
company a softer
image for a more
environmentally
conscious age
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In the Thirties
Loewy spent
$18,000 of his
own money on
the design of a
streamlined
sports car. This
concept was later
developed for
Studebaker as
the Avanti. It
went into pro-
duction in 1961
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The Greyhound
bus, like the
Avanti car,
epitomized
Loewy's desire to
streamline and
simplify in a time
when other
designers were
using what he
regarded as
unnecessary
embellishment
and decoration
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Loewy's chief
contribution to
the 1967 Skylab
project was its
large porthole. He
also designed a
triangular table
for the three
astronauts, and
to ease the bore-
dom of weight-
less space travel
he came up with
3-dimensional
billiards and
floating darts
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