It's a bit broad and uneven, but the Volvo- and Vice-sponsored Creative30 competition/website offers some great creative eye-candy, in the form of 3-minute videos of some of the most phenomenally talented young designers and artists the UK currently has to offer. As the name implies, thirty subjects have been selected to showcase and talk about their work, which ranges from sculpture and visual arts to music, fashion and furniture design. Visitors to the site are invited to cast a vote for their favorite, and the winner drives off in a Volvo (runner up has to settle for £10,000 in cash "to help launch their career").
As a bunch of product designers, we're drawn immediately toward Julian Mayor's structurally complex one-off furniture pieces:
but we have to admit to falling hard for Glaswegian Katie Paterson's beautifully nerdy conceptual art, which includes records made of ice that play back the sounds of glaciers moving:
Voting runs until November 16; vote as many times as you like, but only once per person per day.
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