What famous industrial designer had all of the following clients:
- Omega - Mont Blanc - Frigidaire - Formica - Koehler - IBM - Saks Fifth Avenue - Macy's - Bloomingdale's - Ford - GM - Chrysler - BMW - Jaguar - Revlon - Faberge - Vogue - Harper's Bazaar - Hanes - Levis
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It was none other than Raymond Loewy, whose birthday is today. Wired honors the man with a write-up of his life and work, which is of course fascinating in its span--this is a man who fought in World War I and designed both a 1947 Studebaker and the interior of the Space Shuttle! Loewy not only was one of the fathers of industrial design as we know it, but he lived to the ripe old age of 92.
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