Half a Century

To celebrate having reached the half-way point (hopefully), I went into town last week for my annual trip to the Design Museum, accompanied by some of my relatives.

It was a nice, bright shiny day in Old London Town:

The Design of the Year exhibition was on and there was a mix of the practical and strange:

On the left is a wall calendar made of Lego and, on the right, a giant-sized Twitter feed printer. There were cars and smartphone apps and chairs and dresses. There was also a rather nice, if expensive, folding bike:

and a new type of aircraft, similar to the Westland Pterodactyls of the 1930's:

More mundane, but perhaps just as significant, is Fairphone, from Holland. As the name implies, it's an ethically sourced smartphone.