Viktor Schreckengost, American artist and industrial designer,
is the most amazing artist you have never heard of. His body of
work is simply incredible. As an artist, he is extremely
accomplished, though not well known - perhaps his best known
work is the Jazz Bowl, comissioned by Eleanor Roosevelt. As an
artist, he has produced a large volume of work in clay and with
watercolors, including the largest freestanding ceramic
sculpture in the world. As an inventor and designer, he created
the cab over engine truck, the riding lawnmower, the chopper
bicycle, and changed much of the way printing is done.
Schreckengost completely redesigned the pedal car so that it
could be mass produced at a reasonable price, designed the most
popular china in America for a few decades, and a host of other
things. He has about 110 patents to his name. As a professor,
artist, and designer, Viktor Schreckengost has made the world a
more beautiful and interesting place, as well as one that
functions better, too.  Viktor Schreckengos