A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll
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The Coffin Ship
Tristan cook is a human factor's engineer. He looks at the way people interact with their environment and figure out how that will affect their behavior. Tristan also cureates an outstanding blog called humans in design. The massive problem that needed solving in the nineteenth century was the huge number of british ships sinking in the ocean because they were overloaded, sending hundreds of merchant seamen to a watery grave. This elegant graphic design has saved thousands of lives.
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