‘Eco Seed’ designed by a team of students from Cambourne Village College in Cambridge is the overall winning project of Design Ventura 2021-2022

The ten shortlisted state school teams will have their work on display at the Design Museum from 29 April – 26 June 2022, with the winning product being manufactured for sale in the Design Museum Shop

Design Ventura is the annual design and enterprise compeMMon for schools run by the Design Museum in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s global youth engagement programme ‘Born to Be’.

Design Museum and Deutsche Bank announce the year 10 team from Cambourne Village College, Cambridge, as the winners of the 2021-2022 Design Ventura prize. This year, more than 18,000 students from 397 schools parJcipated in the compeJJon, out of which ‘Eco Seed’, designed by the students from Cambridge

has been selected as the winning design. The design will be manufactured and sold at the Design Museum Shop for £11.99 with all profits going to Rainforest Concern, a charity of the student’s choice.

This year, students were invited to answer a live brief which was set by award- winning arJst and Pentagram Partner Yuri Suzuki. Students work as a design team to develop a product concept for a target audience, considering the packaging, cost and ways to market their idea.

A record 397 schools took part in this year’s Design Ventura compeJJon.

Significantly this is 9.5% of the 4,190 registered secondary schools in the UK. The overall winner was selected from a shortlist of ten schools who pitched their ideas to a panel of leading design and business experts including Yuri Suzuki, Sound ArJst and Designer and Design Ventura 2021-22 brief seZer; Rosa Bertoli, Design Editor at Wallpaper*; SebasMan Conran, Designer and Trustee at the Design Museum; Preena Patel, Buying and Merchandising Manager at the Design Museum; and Christoph Woermann, Chief MarkeJng Officer of Corporate Bank MarkeJng at Deutsche Bank
Lareena Hilton,