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Multi-award-winning designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell review and renew everyday items that have outlived their usefulness.

Tackling everything from economy airline seats to the humble kitchen bin, they approach leading manufacturers who agree to take on the design should it be successful. The next challenge comes when they test their products on the public – will shoppers welcome a five-wheel shopping trolley? Will a new vest-like life jacket save lives? Better By Design finds the problem is often not how to make a revolutionary product, but to bring it in under budget and in similar size and use to the original. “You have to remember we are on a mission,” says Dick. “Our mission is to show there are better ways of doing things out there and those ways might have a commercial interest for manufacturers.”

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Science

  • Producers: TV6 LIMITED

  • Broadcaster: Channel 4 UK

  • Duration: 6 x 26'

  • Tags: Design Lifestyle Technology

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