Biography
"Many North Americans have used Jack Luck's simple, functional designs. He designed award-winning pots and pans, kettles and coffee makers, even door pulls under the brand names Wear-Ever Aluminum and Mayfair. His expertise in aluminum was acquired al Alcan, where he spent a large part of his career and in turn introduced the company to the process of creating and documenting sketches, working drawings and models.
Luck immigrated to Canada in 1930 and joined the Alcan subsidiary Aluminum Goods in Toronto. He later moved to its Montreal office to become a draftsman in the engineering department. When the firm became Aluminum Laboratories in 1936, Luck joined the new division but continued to work concurrently as an artist and cartographer. When the lab moved to Kingston, Ontario, in 1949, he uprooted once again and helped to reduce wartime aluminum smelting overcapacity by using the metal to create products for the home. Over the years, Luck won four NIDC awards for aluminum cookware and by 1958 was lecturing on industrial design at the University of Toronto. He also served as president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers."