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.