The Design Museum Presents Under A Tenner

The Design Museum Presents Under A Tenner
What is good design? Is it about styling? Function? Sensuality? Innovation?
Sustainability? Inclusivity? Something that makes us laugh? The Design
Museum has invited fourteen people each with a particular perspective on
design from different parts of the world to choose ten examples of what they
believe is "good design". The catch is that nothing can cost more than �10.

From a biodegradable cardboard toilet and Brazilian flip-flop, to a classic Bic
biro and Masterlock padlock, their choices will be exhibited at the Design
Museum in Under A Tenner from 3 December 2004 to 27 February 2005.

The result will offer fascinating insights into the different contributions that
design makes to life today and into the design thinking of such people as:
J Mays, head of global design at the Ford Motor Company; the acclaimed
furniture designer Ron Arad; Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for
Humanity, which designs emergency housing for disaster zones; and Murray
Moss who, as the owner of Moss, runs New York's chicest design store.

Among the other collectors choosing ten examples of inexpensive "good
design" are Foreign Office Architects and the product designers Naoto
Fukusawa in Japan and Hella Jongerius in the Netherlands. The graphic
designers Stefan Sagmeister in the US and Experimental Jetset of the
Net