Raymond Lowey Exhibit
This weekend I saw the Raymond Lowey exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA.
To think that the father of my profession, industrial design, started as a graphic designer and was proud of being a ‘stylist’ as written on the stationary of his resume “Raymond Lowey, Industrial Designer and Stylist”.
Nonetheless, it was great to see the range and beauty of his work from graphics, advertising and logos to functional, decorative products and machinery. I was impressed to see the streamline style side-by-side with products that existed previous to Lowey’s influence and style. Lowey’s Rosenthal China Tableware was particularly interesting to me. The surface patterns used were just as beautiful as the simplicity in lines and plain color that Lowey used on various pieces of Rosenthal China. To imagine that one person could be successful in so many lines of work- advertising, graphics, cars, boats, household products and packaging. At this point in my early career, I could only dream of accomplishing a fraction of what Lowey did.
added: Wired article 1, Wired article 2