The Future of Food?

The Electrolux Design Lab announced the winners of its 2009 competition yesterday afternoon. As in past years, the relatively narrow brief—it challenges industrial-design students to “create thoughtfully-designed products that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes and do dishes over the next nine decades”—yielded a range of interesting proposals for the domestic sphere. Top prize went to Rickard Hederstierna, of Sweden’s Lund Institute of Technology, for his Cocoon meat an