In today’s online issue of Fast Company, Michael Cannell asks a critical question of inflential designers.  He asked some distinguished design figures to come up with their picks for everyday objects in need of improvement. You can read the entire article here, http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/blog/michael-cannell/cannell/eight-picks-improving-everyday.

I was especially interested in three of them beginning with this one by Maya Lin, designer and artist. 

Plastic Furniture
“Plastic lasts forever, so why not create amazing furniture designs that are collectible and made from all of our old plastic bottles and bags?”

Julie Lasky editor of Change Observer, a forthcoming web magazine affiliated with Design Observer.
Wire grocery cart
“Clumsy, child-unfriendly (despite kiddie seats), and hard to pull out of their clumps. I’m sure we can do better.”

Mitchell Owens, executive editor, Elle Décor
Plastic Lids for Take-Out Coffee
“No matter how well-designed such lids appear to the naked eye, they always end up leaking or dribbling when in use; the latter reaction could be a design flaw related to my own mouth, but I don’t believe so.”

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