Quotes by Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Science

Thinking

Understanding

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.

Airplane

Fun

Science

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

Business

Two

Winning

Design is too important to be left to designers.

Design

Designer

Important

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Comfort

Design

Numbers

Form, which should be the clean – cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

Cutting

Excellence

Expression

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Design

Good Design

Veneer

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Black

Design

Experience

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

Car

Compact

Should

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

Believe

Intuition

Profound

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Cutting

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Design

Designer

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Doe

Enough

Excellence

Exercise

Experience

Expression

Failure

Fun

Goal

Good Design

Ideas

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Littles

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Quotes by Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

Design is too important to be left to designers.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Form, which should be the clean – cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

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