Posted on 2/3/2016
They say it's not the winning, but the taking part that counts. Nowhere is this old adage more apt than at the 8th Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum - a cornucopia of the best design of the last 12 months.
Somehow, despite a leaderboard looming large on the wall and number of big hitter nominees - Frank Gehry, Tesla, Raf Simons - this exhibition, deftly curated by Gemma Curtin, is more playground than battlefield, albeit with a social conscience (think loos for communities without running water or the Waterbank campus, which harvests rainwater as well as providing a educat...