Raymond Loewy was a designer and an engineer who studied engineering in the University of Paris before he emigrated to the United States. In 1929 Loewy founded his out Industrial design firm which he started to do the work he is famous for which was redesigning existing products. Such design helped to increase in sales and by redesign by Loewy the amount of interest in the products increased.
Raymond Loewy was the pioneer of streamlining which was very popular and dominated the work in every aspect as it was used in products and even in automotive design for aerodynamics. In today's automotive design we can notice that some factor of the design itself are taken and improved from original designs from designer such as Loewy himself.
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