This year’s African American Steering Committee wants to pay attention to some of the long history, including famous creativity, craftsmen, scientists and leaders. Cutting black “You know?” this year will celebrate the invention of inventors and their everyday objects that help storytelling in movies and TV.
Charles Harrison
1931 – 2018
Charles Harrison is one of the most outstanding African-American designers of the 20th century, reinventing post-war American life, his modern designs for durable and affordable household products. Harrison has designed more than 750 items for nearly every area in nearly every area during his 32-year career at Chicago retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., including hair dryers, kitchen utensils, toasters, sewing machines, Sewing machines, lawn mowers and the country’s first plastic trash can. In a transformational early project with Professor and Tutor Henry P. Grass (Henry P.). A transformative early project was his redesign of the popular Toy View Master in 1959, an original at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The stereo mirror device introduced and used by the military of World War II. View-Master is a stereo viewing device that allows users to flip 3D images on cardboard reels. Harrison’s updated (now iconic) model Replaced dark brown, blocky units with lightweight, brightly colored, injection-style plastics, making the equipment cheaper and easier to use, especially for children. View-Master represents Harrison’s design approach, which is based on problem solving and keenly focus on user experience rather than intended aesthetic goals.
