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DESIGN LEADERS IN THE MAKING
New design talent from around the UK was on show at New Designers 2011. Stacey Sheppard reports from this year’s design graduate showcase
IN 1985, Peta Levi presented ‘Young Designers’ at the RIBA and a year later the Design Council launched a similar event called ‘Graduate Designers for Industry’. When the two events were combined in 1988, New Designers was born.
For the past 23 years the event has brought the latest generation of design talent face to face with some of the most prestigious and forward-thinking companies and organisations in the industry.
At this year’s show there was certainly no shortage of talent on display. Over 3,500 graduates from all major design disciplines presented a wealth of fresh ideas and exciting new work. As a media partner for the exhibition, Designer took a look at Part II of the event at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London and selected a number of outstanding designs produced by tomorrow’s design leaders.
New Designers
www.newdesigners.com
FLO
Flo is an intuitive, hygienic, stylish and user- centred design for a kitchen tap. Inspired by the lack of technological developments within kitchen taps of recent years, Paul Helme, a design student at Loughborough University, took it upon himself to address the problem.
What he came up with is a modern kitchen tap, with tap on and tap off control to start and stop the fl ow of water and touchless hand gesture controls to operate the fl ow rate and temperature of the water.
Paul Helme
paulhelme87@gmail.com VAX EV
Designed by Loughborough University student Jake Tyler for his fi nal degree project, Vax ev is the world’s fi rst ever cardboard vacuum cleaner. Jake developed it with the support of the New Product Design team at the Worcestershire headquarters of VAX, one of the UK’s bestselling fl oor care brands.
The corrugated cardboard panels that make up the body of the vacuum start their life as part of the retail box that the vacuum is sold in. Once separated from the box they pop into place around the motor housing without any need for glue. Parts that cannot be fabricated from cardboard are made from recyclable, pure nylon plastic using rapid process manufacturing, adding to the vacuum’s sustainable credentials.
Jake Tyler
jaketyler.design@
gmail.com
LENTO
In response to the developed world’s obsession with fast food, Joanne Cone, a student at Northumbria University, developed Lento. This family- friendly slow cooker not only cooks food at much lower temperatures over longer periods of time, therefore increasing the intensity of the fl avours, it is also designed specifi cally with children in mind.
Divided into three small cooking compartments, Lento allows children to take ownership and responsibility for their own small part of the cooking process.
The vitro-ceramic cooking pots can also be used on the hob or in the oven and are not restricted to use with the slow cooker.
Joanne Cone
joanne.cone@
gmail.com
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