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The Good Design Awards were handed out last Friday in a new format event held in two locations: prizes at the Angel Place recital hall (with the car design trophies handed out by my rally mate Samantha Stevens  - in blue below) and drinks and display across the way at the Ivy.
As usual the standard was impressive.  I wasn't a judge this year and so most of the award winners were new to me.  In the exhibition I was particularly taken by the steel "Malibu" cabinetry hardware by Furnipart, the brilliant F3 Compact Metal Detector by a team including my judge mate Paul van der Loo of Applidyne, and of course the main winner, Director James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger which was built in a 
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Years ago I would read designboom.com every week, studying their competitions until I finally found one that pushed my buttons.  The challenge was a bathroom for the future - or a bathroom appliance, I cant quite remember - and I was in the thoes of designing the inwall shower-to-toilet recycling unit, titled reWASH and using a ferris wheel-like structure with internal "cars" filled with zeolite to filter the water to flushable standard.  reWASH would eventually morph into my Rainwater H2OG tank - but I digress.
Completely keyed up with my brilliant inwall filtration device I designed a modular "plug-in" bathroom that took shower and sink water to a toilet "wall" for processing and use as the toilet flush, and I expressed this process in a flowing visual made from a resin product like Corian.  Come to think of it, I think the challenge was to design a bathroom appliance using Corian.....
Anyhoo - because I cant draw on computer I even paid an industrial designer friend to draw my concept up in 3D.  I was SO SURE that I would win.  Here it is:
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Water flows from basin, across shower floor and into back of toilet wall where it is filtered and pumped up for gravity flush. Mains water runs through the grey section - shower head is part of the ceiling. Hell - theres even a nook under for towel storage!
So - I didnt win.  I didnt even get a mention.  Devastated and broker than before, I logged off and stopped visiting.

But now - there is THIS!  Thank you Inhabitat for opening my eyes to a seriously terrific and useful design brought into being by a designboom competition.  Israeli designer Yael Livneh designed the TwoGO back in 2010 for a Seoul Bike competition on Designboom and hey - Yael didnt win either!  Crazy.  Check it out.

HOLD THE BOAT!!  I have just found the original bathroom competition!!  IT was 2004 - and here is the winner Tom Jonkers from Belgium with his all-inclusive floating egg...