A ladder with just one step secured a new £40,000 prize for a graduate designer. Cameron Rowley, 23, won the Conran Shop’s inaugural Designer of the Future award with his One Step Ladder design. Mr Rowley, a graduate of Kingston University, said: “When using step stools and ladders around the house, it is usually for a very brief moment and with only one step. Mr Rowley’s ladder was one of 97 entries into the inaugural competition and won out over 11 other finalists. The judging panel, which included architect Lord Norman Foster and designer Anya Hindmarch, said: “Sir Terence Conran always voiced a philosophy of good design being ‘plain, simple, useful’.

Source: Irish Independent August 17, 2021 20:26 UTC