Item 2024-007/016 (01) - Electric Kettle Model 1000

Glenn Murray Moffatt, industrial designer and teacher, was born in Toronto on 23 May 1944 to Fred and Roma Moffatt and grew up in Thornhill. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1967, Moffatt began a successful career designing consumer and industrial products. He ran his own business, Moffatt Associates, while occasionally collaborating with his father. His most successful project was an electric hair setter designed within a year of graduation, which sold between 2 and 3 million units for Samson-Dominion, its Canadian manufacturer. Moffatt worked on a wide variety of products that ranged from the GT Snow Racer and Noma Snowthrowers to amplifiers and public address systems, industrial paint spraying equipment, and a paint store colourant dispenser carousel. He continued his father’s work on electric kettles, developing a plastic kettle for Black & Decker Canada Incorporated in 1984 and updating the designs of Superior Electrics of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada’s last manufacturer of steel kettles which also introduced a plastic model designed by Moffatt. He designed packaging graphics for Black & Decker from 1984 to 1987. Moffatt was a member of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario and served as a Professor of Industrial Design and Coordinator of Special Projects at Humber College from 1995 to his retirement in 2022. Moffatt died on 9 July 2023.