Looking Back to the Future: Raymond Loewy

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1986

Creator: Charles Dorian Walker

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Highlights the life of industrial designer Raymond Loewy with a series of interviews filmed in the U.S. and Europe before his death in July, 1986. Reveals Loewy's philosophical views, his creative genius and his concern for the consumer. Loewy's creations include some of the world's most recognized company and government logos, locomotives, cars, boats, pencil sharpeners, refrigerators, sewing machines, and the interiors of the presidential airplane Air Force One, the space station Skylab, and the commercial supersonic airplane, the Concorde. 1987 Red Ribbon Winner, American Film and Video Festival.