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

—  Raymond Loewy

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

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