About : Awards & Honors

2001Citizen of Honor of Palm Springs

2000Best Design of 20th Century, 1st Runner-up, S1 Locomotive

1997Automotive Hall of Fame

1989Designers Hall of Fame

1986Lycee College Raymond Loewy, 23300 La Souterraine, France, named for Loewy

1982Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London

1980Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Medallion, Paris, at US Embassy

1978Special Award of Merit, American Society of Industrial Design

1970Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Arts Center College of Design, Los Angeles, Calif.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, California Institute of Design,

1969Special Honoree Award "Joy of Living", American Society of Industrial Design

1967Citizen of Honor of Palm Springs

1966Citizen of Honor of New York City

1964Graphic Arts Certificate of Achievement, Artist Guild of Philadelphia
Jacqueline Kennedy asks Loewy to design JFK memorial stamp
Citizen of Honor of France

1960Benjamin Franklin Fellow, British Royal Society of Arts, London

1959French Legion of Honor, Silver Cup, Commander

1956Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati

19542 Certificates of Recognition, US Foreign Operations Administration

1950Citizen of Honor of Chicago

1949First American designer to meet with Japanese emperor and prime minister

1946Fellow of the American Society of Industrial Design

1942Made officer of French Legion of Honor, Silver Cup
Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts, London

1939Royal Designer to Industry of the British Royal Society of Arts, London

1938American Design Award for S1 locomotive design, New York

1937Gold Medal in Transportation, Paris World Exhibition for GG1 locomotive design

1934Office of the Year, Office on permanent display at Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914- 1919Croix de Guerre Medal (French Cross of War) with 4 citations and the Interallied Medal, for military service in WWI

Other Honors:

First Habitability Consultant to NASA for the Saturn-Apollo program, Skylab and Shuttle Orbiter Projects.

"The 100 Events That Shaped America" list established by the Historian-in-Chief of the Smithsonian Institute on the occasion of the US Bicentennial in 1976, included in the section "Inventors and shaping of everyday life". Those listed were: the Wright Brothers, Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Lindbergh, Henry Ford and Raymond Loewy.

Loewy's 1951 autobiography "Never Leave Well Enough Alone" becomes a best seller and is translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and Arabic.