Found an article on a hometown boy from Akron, OH.... Carlo Heckman was an industrial designer and in the 1950's he created a method for organizing birthday candles by essentially creating tally marks in fives with one long candle across four short candles. Interesting. Later he wrote a book called, "A Practical Guide to Sticks," laying out the... practical use of different kinds of sticks you can find in your backyard. After moderate success in Italy, he recorded a tape cassette of him reading the book and sold them at rock shows for a buck. He then faded into the abyss and died in 1998. It seems now that his designs are finally picking up pace. Why? Urban Outfitters and hipsters? Maybe.
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