This Travel Tuesday is going DIY with a homemade Avanti, as spotted by industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) on a Moscow street in 1973. Loewy noted the inclusion of two motorcycles used in parallel into this contraption’s design; the rest is a mystery.
This image is part of the Hagley Library’s Raymond Loewy Archive (Accession 2251). To view more images from the career and life of Raymond Loewy, an inventor, engineer, and designer whose work covered everything from automobiles and airplanes to Lucky Strike cigarette packaging, dinnerware, and corporate branding, visit this collection’s page in our Digital Archives by clicking here.
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JVC Television and Radio, 1972. Japan Victor Company, Tokyo. Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Source: design-is-fine, via roguetelemetry)
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Abandoned Quincy Mine at Hancock Shaft House, just outside Hancock, MI:1953
Quincy Mine was a set of copper mines that operated mainly between 1846-1945. It is a designated National Historic Landmark District and some parts can still be toured.
(Source: digital.library.wayne.edu, via architectureofdoom)