French born Loewy became a U.S. citizen in 1938, eighteen years after his first visit to America.

Though trained as an engineer, Loewry's first job in the U.S. was for Macy's Department stores as a window dresser.  During the 1920s he found work doing fashion illustration for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines, working for retailers Bonwit-Teller, Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Loewy's first contract for industrial design came in 1929 from Sigmund Gestetner, to redesign the appearance of a duplicating machine.

Later would come work from Westinghouse, on the Hupmobile auto (1932) and Coldspot refrigerator for Sears Roebuck -- that sold over 200,000 units the first year.

By the late 1930s Loewy was designing locomotives, passenger cars and advertising materials for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Another of his anchor accounts was Studebaker, for which he designed a logo and several automobiles, including the Avanti.

• Raymond Loewy - father of industrial design - website maintained by Loewy's family

• Raymond Loewy on Wikipedia

• Raymond Loewy Foundation

• Art Directors Club, NYC, Raymond Loewy Hall of Fame

• 1949 TIME magazine article about Raymond Loewy