Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy (November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was an industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949.
Born in France to a Jewish family, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machines, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 and S-1 locomotives, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti and Champion, and the Air Force One livery. His career spanned seven decades.

Raymond Loewy
Loewy standing on one of his designs, thePennsylvania Railroad's S1 steam locomotive
Born	November 5, 1893 Paris, France
Died	July 14, 1986 (aged 92) Monte Carlo, Monaco
Cause of death	illness
Resting place	Rochefort-en-Yvelines Cemetery,Rambouillet, France
Citizenship	France, United States
Occupation	Industrial Designer
Years active	1909–1980
Notable work(s)	The slenderized Coca-Cola bottle, the streamlined Greyhound bus, the John F. Kennedy postage stamp, the Lucky Strike cigarette package, locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the interiors of NASA's Saturn I, Saturn V, and Skylab, the Sears Coldspot refrigerator, Schick electric razors, several Studebaker models, and the logos of Chubb Corp., Exxon, Greyhound, Nabisco, Shell, and the U.S. Postal Service
Spouse(s)	Jean Thompson Loewy (m. 1931–1945; divorced) Viola Erickson Loewy (m. 1948)
Children	Laurence Loewy
Parents	Maximillian Loewy Marie Labalme Loewy
Website
http://www.raymondloewy.com/

Loewy was born in Paris in 1893, the son of Maximilian Loewy, a Viennese journalist, and his French wife, Marie Labalme. An early accomplishment was the design of a successful model aircraft, which then won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1908. By the following year he was selling the plane, named the Ayrel.

He served in the French army during World War I, attaining the rank of captain. Loewy was wounded in combat and received the Croix de guerre. He boarded a ship to America in 1919 with only his French officer's uniform and $50 in his pocket.