Brit insurance Designs of the year 2011 -Design Museum

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Home made is best, book for IKEA

Margaret Howell plus shirt

The Thin Black Line Chair (doesn't look conformable btw)

What you can see at the Design Museum is not just about Kenneth Grange! You can also see the Brit insurance Designs of the year 2011. “The Design Museum’s annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking new work in design of all kinds, from around the world.”(1) http://www.designsoftheyear.com/about/

The exhibition that surrounds an incredible variety of categories (architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product, transport) is definitely interesting! Among the 100 projects, you can find the Barclays Cycle Hire, little cousins of the Montreal’s Bixis!

One of the projects I found interesting is the E.Chromi project: A strange gathering between synthetic biology and design by undergraduates of Cambridge University. They created bacteria E. Coli that can secrete colors visible to the naked eye. Potentials uses are explained as colored feces for different types of diseases (If it’s red in the toilet your probably have colorectal cancer, if it’s green aids and etc.).

E. chromi from Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on Vimeo.