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From Now to Eternity: Plastic in DesignFrom Now To Eternity is a celebration of and debate around design, with a focus on one material: plastic.
Plastic is with us virtually from now to eternity: impervious to bacteria, acid, salt, rust, breakage and, in some cases, able to withstand heat, plastic is something of a miracle substance.
One hundred years ago, when it was first invented, no one could have anticipated that plastic would present one of our biggest recycling challenges.
Pioneering arts consultancy Arts Co is commissioning ten leading contemporary designers and design collectives to celebrate plastic through their work and look at ways to re-think our growing mountains of discarded plastic.
Their ingenious creations will be on display at From Now To Eternity, an exhibition launching during the 2008 London Design Festival and continuing through Frieze Art Fair, at the Biscuit Building in London's East End.
The designers will show how plastic's versatility - transparent or opaque, hard or pliant, able to take on a myriad of colours and forms - can serve their creativity.
Committee, Stuart Haygarth, Raw Edges and FAT take a witty, playful and imaginative approach: Committee will build on their improbable towers of household objects to create extraordinary designs, while Haygarth's ebullient plastic chandelier is made from 1,000 exploded party poppers.
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