Drinking/eating aid
1968
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1968
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Drinking/eating aid is a 1968 by Raymond Fernand Loewy, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing by Raymond Fernand Loewy shows a tool meant to help astronauts eat and drink in space. It was made in 1968 as part of NASA’s Skylab project. The sketch is one of about 10,000 Loewy and his team made for the program. They had to solve problems like zero-gravity eating. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more NASA-era design sketches.
A drawing by Raymond Fernand Loewy or his studio shows a man facing left with a liquid-delivery apparatus positioned at his mouth, designed for astronauts to consume food and drinks in zero gravity. Produced around 1968 as part of NASA’s Skylab project, the sketch reflects the studio’s extensive output of feasibility studies and habitability concepts for space missions. The sheet may be a preliminary black-and-white sketch, with color rendering handled by assistants, and bears Loewy’s signature regardless of authorship. The project’s design language—rectangular forms with rounded corners and…
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