Founding editor of Modern Plastics, where he began work in 1934. Lougee introduced the subject of industrial design to the new magazine, which had evolved from the earlier Plastics Products. His article "Industry and the Soy Bean," for Modern Plastics (April 1936) led to his book 1943 book Plastics from Farm and Forest.

Lougee began his career with the Dry Goods Economist then in 1918 joined the staff of Bush Terminal Co. in New York. He was subsequently general manager of Mitchell & Co. in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he then established the E. F. Lougee Advertising Service.

See:

Editor & Publisher, Vol 51 (1918)

Lougee, E.F. Plastics from Farm and Forest (New York: Plastics Institute, 1943).

Marketing/communication, Vol. 116 (Aug 11, 1921)

Meikle, Jeffrey l. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979), 81.