Bad Design Amnesty gets rants off the streets

Purpose Design's 'Bad Design Amnesty' started as one of those fun little ideas - an email asking people what they'd put in a 'Room 101' for design.

But it was never going to stay little. It's such an irresistible subject, Purpose was soon flooded with rants about everything from impregnable milk cartons to dangerously enigmatic shower controls and those maddening stickers that leave gluey marks all over your new CDs and books.

So it was that the idea ballooned, as these things do, into a full exhibition at Purpose's basement gallery, as part of the London Design Festival.I was one of the many who couldn't resist the call for design horrors (click here to read my anti-FCUK rant). And I was delighted when Rob Howsam at Purpose asked me to help create the signage for the exhibition. It was great fun to be part of such a brilliant idea.

If you're anywhere near the Edgeware Road, and even if you're not, I'd definitely recommend visiting the exhibition. But get your skates on - it's only on until 30 September. It's at 14a Shouldham Street (see Purpose's website for details) and the doors are open between 10am and 5.30pm Monday to Friday, and between 10am and 2pm at the weekend. Entry is free.