Design Fancy: Carlo Heckman
March 3rd, 2010 admin
Carlo Heckman was an Industrial Designer from Akron, Ohio whose work in the 1950’s went largely unnoticed until just recently. He was best known for his work with birthday candles. In the late 1950’s, Heckman was at a birthday party for his grandfather and was disturbed by the randomly placed candles on the cake. He immediately started working on a solution and came up with what he called the “Heckman Method.” This involved selling one long candle for every four short ones. People were warm to the idea initially but abandoned the method once they realized that more wax ended up on the cake this way. With the relative success of the candles he took some time to write his first book, A Practical Guide to Sticks: The First…
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