Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy Celebrated By Google Doodle

By James Brown | Nov 05, 2013 10:45 AM EST

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Industrial designer Raymond Loewy 120th birth anniversary is celebrated by a Google Doodle with a very stylish train-logo.

The iconic Coca-Cola bottle; the Shell logo; the NASA's Skylab space station interior; the Zippo lighter; the Exxon logo and the Air Force One's distinctive blue, white and chrome livery are some of the most notables works he left behind to human kind.

At this time, Google homepage replaced its logo with a fusion between the multicolored "Google" and the K4s Pacific #3768 locomotive engine designed by Loewy using its wheels to resemble the letters of the word "Google".

Raymond Loewy was born in Paris on Nov. 5, 1893. He was injured in World War I, aftwerwards traveled to New York in 1919 with only $50 where he found a work as a window designer for Macy's and Saks, and as a fashion illustrator for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.

"The average person, leading a normal life, whether in the country, a village, a city, or a metropolis, is bound to be in daily contact with some of the things, services, or structures in which R.L.A (Raymond Loewy Associates) was party during the design or planning stage," Raymond Loewy once declared.

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