Industrial design Quotes by Raymond Loewy

Design is too important to be left to designers.

— Raymond Loewy

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

— Raymond Loewy

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper…

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Raymond Loewy

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Raymond Loewy

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as…

— Raymond Loewy

The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure…

— Raymond Loewy

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it…

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Raymond Loewy

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather…

— Raymond Loewy

Good design is not an applied veneer.

— Raymond Loewy

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has…

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Raymond Loewy