Raymond Loewy: Designation

Raymond Loewy was industrial designer. Explore interesting quotes on designation.

Raymond Loewy: 14 quotes0 likes

“I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.”

Raymond Loewy, cited in: William Marling (1998) The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler. p. 279

“Design is too important to be left to designers.”

Attributed to Raymond Loewy in: Adam Richardson (2010) Innovation X, p. 184

“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”

Raymond Loewy (ca. 1949); Cited in: Paul Greenhalgh (1993) Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts. p. 117

“I never expected that one could fall so completely in love with a nation and a people. I already knew that very soon I would thrill at everything American, love everything American, perhaps blindly, but fervently and forever. I still remember how thrilled I was at the sight of the flag. After all these years, every time I see the Stars and Stripes in the breeze, I get the same emotional feeling. Aesthetically speaking, it is perfect. One of the outstanding "designs" of all times. It may be that a nation gets the flag it deserves.”

Source: Never Leave Well Enough Alone (1951), Chapter 1