A very rare Lileks 'Oops!'--or I could just be missing something.

In today's Bleat, which you should read every day, and reread over the weekends, Mr. Lileks waxes rhapsodic about the graphic design of Fanstasia and The Wizard of Oz, comparing their striking Moderne-ism to that of Rolie Polie Olie, which he likens to a "Raymond Lowry blueprint."

Now I could be wrong about this, but I think he was searching for the "E" key on the Mac and stumbled across the "R"--there IS a Raymond Lowry, who is an English cartoonist, but I believe Gnat's Dad was thinking more along the lines of Raymond Loewy, one of the world's most influential designers and one who shaped much of the familar objects of the American commercial landscape. He designed the trademarked Coke Bottle, the Studebaker Avanti, the Postal Service Eagle logo (and the round top streetcorner mail box) and a host of other everyday products. If you think the Michael Graves stuff at Target is the ultimate in snazzy hip design, click over to the link above and follow all of the links you find there.
posted by Terry at 9:54:00 AM