Author: | Glenn Porter,Raymond Loewy |
Subcategory: | Historical |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Edition edition (December 31, 2002) |
Pages: | 488 pages |
Category: | Biographies |
Rating: | 4.9 |
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Raymond Loewy did not leave well enough alone but instead left us a good book to grace our libraries
Raymond Loewy's Never Leave Well Enough Alone occupies a place in my heart for two reasons: 1. Inspiration. When I read it as a high school student in 1951, he gave me permission to be creative to the best of my abilities, a startling concept for me at the time. None of my teachers did that; I doubt whether it ever occurred to them. Raymond Loewy did not leave well enough alone but instead left us a good book to grace our libraries. Here is a good read about a slice of a life well lived in achievements of many kinds.
Raymond Loewy, Glenn Porter (Introduction). Although Raymond Loewy was instrumental in establishing American design as a relevant powerhouse, this book read like one big ego stroke
Raymond Loewy, Glenn Porter (Introduction). Although Raymond Loewy was instrumental in establishing American design as a relevant powerhouse, this book read like one big ego stroke. There are entire chapters that need to be cut from this book to remain on topic. A proposed updated title: Loewy on Loewy: the Importance of an Important Man as Told by a Prodigy.
His company, Raymond Loewy Associates, served as design consultants . Glenn Porter is director of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, and author of The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.
Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part autobiography and part design manifesto. Raymond Loewy (1893–1986) was born in France and came to America in 1919.
Home Never Leave Well Enough Alone. Raymond Loewy with a new introduction by Glenn Porter
Home Never Leave Well Enough Alone. Raymond Loewy with a new introduction by Glenn Porter. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs for thousands of consumer goods-everything from toasters and refrigerators to automobiles and ocean liners-radically changed the look of American life.
Never Leave Well Enough Alone. Johns Hopkins University Press Porter, Glenn. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-8018-7211-2. Loewy, Raymond" in American National Biography, American Council of Learned Societies (2000). Raymond Loewy Designs for the Consumer Culture, Hagley Museum and Library (2002).
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs for thousands of consumer goods-everything from toasters and refrigerators to automobiles and ocean liners-radically changed the look of American life.
Raymond Lowey (Memoire) Never leave well enough alone. Raymond Loewy; Introduction-Glenn Porter. Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part autobiography and part design manifesto. ISBN 10: 2843237742 ISBN 13: 9782843237744. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press (2002). ISBN 10: 0801872111 ISBN 13: 9780801872112.
By tweaking the popular saying Leave well enough alone . Never Wrestle with a Pig. Never take a problem to your boss without some solutions.
Never Wrestle with a Pig. You are getting paid to think, not to whine. RICHARD A. MORAN, in his 1993 book. Subtitled And Other Business Lessons Too Simple Not to Know, the book contained 355 aphorisms on aspects of work life that are often overlooked.
Authors: Raymond Loewy Glenn Porter.
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs for thousands of consumer goods―everything from toasters and refrigerators to automobiles and ocean liners―radically changed the look of American life. Regarded as the father of modern industrial design, he appeared on the cover of Time in 1949; in 1990, he was selected as one of Life's "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Whether they realized it or not, Americans at mid-century lived in a Loewy-designed world, from the cigarettes they smoked (Lucky Strike's packaging), the soda they drank (the restaurant Coca-Cola dispenser), the toothpaste they used (Pepsodent's toothpaste tube), the cars they drove (his organization was Studebaker's design and styling department), the buses (Greyhound) and trains (the Pennsylvania Railroad) in which they rode, and the department stores (Gimbel's, Foley's, and Lord & Taylor) and grocery stores (Lucky) where they shopped.
Never Leave Well Enough Alone was first published in 1951 at the height of Loewy's career. His company, Raymond Loewy Associates, served as design consultants to more than a hundred of the world's largest corporations, and products manufactured to their specifications sold in excess of $3 billion annually. Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part autobiography and part design manifesto. Acclaimed for its wit, its idiosyncracies, and its insight into the Loewy aesthetic, this volume stands as a remarkable document of the American Century and a still-vital meditation upon the importance of industrial design in daily life.