You name it, Loewy designed it, more or less
On this day in (engineering) history… November 5, 1893 – Birth of Raymond Loewy, Industrial Designer Question: What do the Greyhound bus, Air Force One livery, the Fanta bottle, the Studebaker Avanti car, the Shell Oil company logo, the Sunbeam Toaster, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 locomotive and the Skylab space station interior all have in common? Answer: Raymond Loewy. Raymond Loewy was one of the biggest names in what became known as mid-century modern industrial design, with an influence still felt in modern design's clean, functional lines. The blank paper ‘ The Man Who Shaped America ’ was born in Paris, today in 1893. His parents were Maximilian Loewy, an Austrian Jewish business journalist, and Marie Labalme, a go-getter whose personal mantra was ‘it is better to be envied…
