Today, in a Google Doodle, Google
commemorates the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the Jewish designer who
achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of
industries.
He was featured on the cover of Time magazine
on 31 October 1949 and, amongst other things, designed the iconic Coca-Cola
bottle, the streamlined Greyhound bus, the John F. Kennedy postage stamp, steam
trains for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the interiors of NASA's Saturn I, Saturn
V, and Skylab, Schick electric razors, several models of Studebaker cars, and
the logos of Exxon oil, Greyhound, Nabisco, Shell and the United States Postal
Service.
I confess that I
knew nothing about Loewy until today but the scale and scope of his design work
is staggering. A true genius.
