Design Council Ones to Watch include wellbeing devices

Design Council has announced its 70 Ones to Watch which includes devices to improve an individual’s well-being.

Showcased as part of Design Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations, the designers — each chosen for an individual product or project of outstanding design ingenuity and vision — have been selected from hundreds of entrants and include Hyn Kyung Lee’s the Future Active Wear Collection for Older Adults, a collection of fashion garments designed to encourage the wearer to lead a healthy and active lifestyle by improving muscle strength and flexibility by incorporating gentle exercise functions directly into these garments.

Another design helping the elderly is Hand-Healthy by Simon Kinneir, a behavioral and product invention for people with osteoarthritis, designed to help the user engage better with their joint-health and exercise through cooking. My Med by Matthew Cardell-Williams is a system providing a solution to medication management straight from the pharmacy, aimed at elderly people with limited dexterity, sensory perception and suffering from degenerative mental illnesses.

John Mathers, Design Council chief executive, commented: “We are proud to be marking 70 years of the Design Council in 2015 with the exemplary Ones to Watch line up of new designers.

Ones to Watch offers an exciting vision of our future, with fresh ideas from emerging designers that address important contemporary living challenges from sustainability to health, education to city living and simple but effective ways to improve everyday life. The variety of the designs illustrates the diverse nature of ideas coming out of the UK, and we hope to see these designers producing more exciting work over the coming years.”