Listening to NPR in the car today, they actually celebrated the life of someone who actually did something useful. Usually NPR is forever droning on and on about someone who wrote a book of suicidally dull poetry or is studying the ways in which the cis-het white patriarchy is oppressing repeat reverse trans-speciesists or some other damn whackadoodle thing, but this time they found someone who was actually worthy of note. Charles Harrison was an industrial designer who used his dyslexia as a tool, rather than an excuse: he used it to help him design things that would need no complex instructions to use, things that would improve lives. He was apparently responsible for the creation of plastic garbage cans. This might not sound like much, but the things are *everywhere.* They have functionally replaced the metal trash cans of my young… loud clanky things forever getting rusted out and busted up, difficult to haul around to anyone not up to hauling by main force a giant inconvenient bucket of steaming hot rancid week-old rubbish.
A number of examples of his art are available HERE. The art style is archaic in a way… but also terribly iconic. Industrial designers from circa WWII into probably the 1970s all used this style, and it just screams “class.” An interesting interview with him is HERE.