Roger Tallon is one of France's foremost industrial designers and his highly engineered designs are both materially and structurally innovative.

Tallon designed numerous innovative products, including the Chronograph X watch for LIP (1973). He also worked as a consultant for General Motors from 1957 to 1964. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Tallon acquired an international reputation for his transportation design, which included work for Mexico City's underground system (1969) and the Corail locomotive (1977) for SNCF.