A fine romance: Cabe and the Design Council | Magazine Comment | Building.
For example, a recent Design Council highlight is “design bugs out” - 10 redesigns of hospital furniture to reduce MRSA infection rates, harnessing designers and manufacturers for great community benefit. A new take on an apparently intractable problem became, under the Design Council’s stewardship, bug-resistant bedside cupboards without dark crevices, ward chairs with easily removable covers and stay-clean hospital curtains with smooth removable hand grips to stop cross-infection. Such deceptively simple ideas that you wonder why nobody thought of them before. It took the Design Council to give the Department of Health enough confidence to open the door to designers and their manufacturers.
