Hasta La Ideas

Also on display at the V&A in London this week, is a selection of design proposals for electricity pylons. Not the most glamourous of subjects, perhaps, but serious food for thought for industrial designers.

The design of the humble British pylon has barely changed from Sir Reginald Bloom’s 1927 design. An icon of technological progress to some; an ugly scar on the countryside to others; the British National Grid predict—what with the development of technology, and perhaps even an eventual switch to electric cars—that we will need more pylons rather than less in the coming years.

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