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Share 15 Design Museum selects its picks of the Today's best video year T weet 27 The Designs of the Year contenders include the Olympic 2 cauldron and Beijing's Galaxy Soho building Sharre 2
Oliver Wainwright The Guardian, Tuesday 19 March 2013 23.09 GMT Jump to comments (0) Article history
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UK news Diana's dresses at auct io n in Lo ndo n Mo re news Ten dresses worn by the Princess of Wales go under the hammer Mo re o n t his st o ry Ko mo do drago n babies hat ch at zo o Seven baby komodo dragons successfully hatched at a zoo in Indonesia Designs of the Year Designs of the Year contenders 2013 – in pictures Bees halt f o o t ball Take a look at some of mat ch A f olding wheel, a non-stick ketchup bottle and a chair made f rom sea the world's best Swarm forms colony waste are some of the more innovative products unveiled today at the design, from London's on a crossbar before Olympic cauldron to Design Museum's annual designs of the year exhibition, which this kick-off at a game in Australia's gruesome Brazil year sees a welcome emphasis on practical problem-solving rather anti-smoking than f antastical f orms. campaign
Comprising more than 90 nominations, covering f ields f rom Guardian Audio Edition architecture and f ashion to f urniture and transport, the design of the year in each category will be announced at a ceremony in April.
The longlist includes some of the more obvious blockbuster achievements of the year, f rom Renzo Piano's Shard to Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron and Random International's Rain Room installation, which saw a torrential downpour installed in the Barbican. Zaha Hadid earns two nominations, f or the Galaxy Soho building in Beijing and the Liquid Glacial Table, which resembles running water.
But the show also f eatures many lesser-known designers whose work is tackling big issues around the world. T his Week In this edition, John Harris asks, if George With scarcity of resources high on the agenda, several projects f ocus Osborne has no answers to our economic on combining new techniques f or low-cost, low-skilled recycling and difficulties, who has? Simon Jenkins writes on the election of a new Pope as God's Olympics, from mobile manuf acturing. Lagos Monica Mark meets the first black female professional polo player. E-Source, developed by Hal Watts, is a bicycle-powered cable recycling system that tackles the widespread practice in developing countries of burning electrical wire to remove the plastic coating and recover the valuable copper within. Watts's ingenious solution takes On Art & desig n the f orm of a granulator, f ixed to the bike's gearing, that shreds the Most viewed Latest cable and separates the materials – increasing the metal's value and Last 24 hours providing healthier working conditions. 1. Designs of the In a similar vein, the Sea Chair project, by Kieren Jones and Studio Year 2013 – in Swine, explores a process of mobile manuf acture f rom waste at sea. pictures The designers have developed a system that harvests plastic f rom the oceans' vast f loating garbage islands and transf orms it into f urniture while still on the boat. 2. Portrait of a pacifist: Jo Metson Scott's images of dissenting soldiers in Iraq Jolan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool is made by a medieval-looking 3. Design Museum selects its picks of the year contraption that physically pulls a gloopy bowl of magnetic resin apart into the f orm of a stool, in an inverse process of conventional 4. Haroon Mirza's unsettling TV transmission is casting. A mobile 3D-printing kiosk and custom vase-casting station ahead of its time also join the growing trend f or projects that predict a return to 5. The view from the top of the Shard: London itinerant makers and menders, with production increasingly seen as a panorama of sights and sounds – interactive collaborative, social process, decentralised f rom mainstream manuf acturing. More most viewed
Challenges in healthcare have provoked some of the most groundbreaking solutions in the exhibition, with several projects that tackle obstacles in the processes behind getting the products to the people that need them most. T his week's bestsellers ColaLif e, designed by Simon Berry, f ocuses on the problem of distributing medicine in f ar-f lung corners of developing countries. 1. Go d Bless t he NHS Berry realised that Coca Cola had the f urthest reaching supply chain by Roger Taylor £6.99 around the world, and so developed a medical packaging case that neatly slots into the gaps between crated Coke bottles – and which also serves as a measure and drinking cup.
Piggy-backing of f an existing distribution network, this unlikely alliance 2. Penguin Undergro und Lines Bo xset allows these "social products", f rom oral rehydration salts to zinc £38.00 supplements, to reach f urther than ever bef ore. 3. T rue No rt h The Centre f or Vision in the Developing World presents an equally by Martin Wainwright £6.99 revolutionary design f or a pair of children's glasses that can be 4. Lif e Af t er Lif e manually adjusted, providing corrective eyewear f or those without by Kate Atkinson £14.99 access to opticians. Incorporating clear silicon-f illed lenses, which can 5. Capit al be calibrated by two removable adjusters, the glasses could help by John Lanchester £4.79 millions of children worldwide that don't have access to clinical eyecare. Search the Guardian bookshop
Many of the products on show seem so obvious that it's hard to Search imagine how we have survived without them f or so long. One such invention is the Morph f olding wheel, developed by young design agency Vitamins, f or a new generation of f olding wheelchairs. Taking up almost half the volume of a f ixed wheel when f olded, the Morph is Weekend+ Print and Dig ital designed to be easy to pack away into the storage compartments of Subscription aeroplanes and small cars.
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