Millennium Products is an international exhibition that focuses on communication through activity. A 16m x 6.3m pavilion – designed to be dismantled, transported and reconfigured – holds a series of cabinets that promote intimate engagement with more than a hundred innovative UK-designed products. Four inflatable-wing-plus-video-screen devices (developed with Nick Crosbie of Inflate and precursors to those at the Work & Learn Zone) line the pavilion’s far end. Inspired by the film ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, and offering adaptations of objects as far ranging as submarine periscopes to inflatable toys, the video booths embrace visitors with their angelic appendages. Other elements, including a 3D viewing area showing specially-commissioned videos of products in motion and an ‘abacus wall’ of bar-coded images that visitors access via hand-held scanners, are tied together by the use of strong graphics. Commissioned jointly by the Design Council and British Council, the exhibition has toured extensively including the UK, Singapore, Brunei, South Korea, India, China, Japan and Australia.

1998
Location
Singapore, Brunei, China, Korea, Japan, Australia
Cost
£200,000
Client
British Council & Design Council