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NOMINEES FOR BEAZLEY DESIGNS OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED

24/11/2016-19/2/2017  
at the Design Museum, London 
 
The Design Museum’s annual exhibition and awards celebrating the world’s best designs returns for its ninth instalment
 
Nominees include the last David Bowie album cover, a robot surgeon and a drinkable book
 
The exhibition will form part of the opening programme at the Design Museum’s spectacular new home in Kensington
 
A coffee cup for astronauts, the David Bowie Blackstar album cover and a sexual health testing kit, the Design Museum in London announce the contenders for the ninth annual Designs of the Year. The annual exhibition and awards has this year acquired a new title sponsor, specialist insurer Beazley, as part of a five year partnership heralding the Beazley Designs of the Year.

Posted 1 September 2016

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Opening 24 November, Beazley Designs of the Year will form part of the opening programme of exhibitions at the Design Museum’s new home on Kensington High Street. Comprising of over 70 nominations, the exhibition celebrates the best designs from around the world in the last 12 months across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and creatives, the awards showcase the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.
 
This year’s nominees include the recently completed Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron and the much-celebrated Prada Foundation in Milan by Rem Koolhaus/OMA, both included in the Architecture category. The SH:24 online STI testing kit and This War of Mine videogame are nominated in Digital; whilst a drinkable book makes it onto Product shortlist.
 
The refugee crisis has given rise to a number of innovative solutions and aids tackling this global issue that are included in the 2016 shortlist. A flat-pack refugee shelter designed by IKEA Foundation; an online experience providing a first-hand insight into the daily lives of refugees in Domiz Syrian; and an icon based communication design to illustrate first aid kits for refugees.
 
In the Architecture category, 2016 Serpentine Pavilion designer Bjarke Ingels has been selected for his Via 57 West ‘courtscraper’ in New York, which combines two well-established building typologies in one structure. MAD Architects’ fluid and organic Harbin Opera House and Wayne Hemmingway’s redesign of Dreamland in Margate have also been included.
 
The Digital category has produced a diverse and potentially life-changing list of projects. Casa Jasmina combines the physical with the digital as a completely digital living experience is placed within the confines of a physical home. An Augment Reality experience which places the viewer into the body of an animal, an open-source robot surgeon and MTV’s commemoration for Martin Luther King Day form just some of 11 Digital nominations.
 
In the Fashion shortlist, Children v Fashion provides an interesting insight into the fashion world through the eyes of a child as they review fashion photography and video footage to reveal gender imbalance and the potential harmful impact of the advertising that we are exposed on a daily basis. Other nominees include Craig Green, Agi and Sam, and Richard Malone.
 
The Graphics nominees include the redesign for the Norwegian Passport, the latest Channel 4 identity by Neville Brody, the Shot on iPhone 6 ad campaign and a secret collective of Malaysian graphic designs pushing for government reform. The Product shortlist compiles an eclectic list including a coffee cup for astronauts, the new Super 8 camera by Kodak and Yves Behar and a pair of 3D printed trainers by Adidas created from recycled fishing nets.
 
The Transport list completes the six categories and includes a digital compass for bicycles, a crowdfunded bicycle helmet and a new communal electronic scooter system in Taipei.
 
Sketches, models, physical pieces and photography will be on display for all nominations and will provide a snapshot into the exciting world of design for visitors. Combining the world’s most established talent alongside graduates and rising stars, Beazley Designs of the Year provides a rare moment to experience a diverse selection of industries, objects and technologies in one exhibition.
 
A winner will be selected in each category and one overall winner will be announced on 26 January 2017. Previous winners have included the 2012 Olympic Torch, the Heydar Aliyev Centre by Zaha Hadid and last year the accolade was awarded to Human Organs-on-Chips, a microdevice lined with living human cells to mimic the complex tissues structures of the human body.
 
Beazley Designs of the Year will be on display from 24 November 2016 – 19 February 2017.
Open: 10am – 5.45pm daily. Last admission: 5pm
224 - 238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG
£10 adult, £7.50 student/concession
+44 (0)20-3862 5900
designmuseum.org
 
Previous Design of the Year Winners:
2015 Human Organs-on-Chips by Donald Ingber and Dan Dongeun Huh at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute
2014 Heydar Aliyev Center by Zaha Hadid Architects
2013 GOV.UK – UK Government website by GDS
2012 London 2012 Olympic Torch by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
2011 Plumen 001 by Samuel Wilkinson and Hulger
2010 Folding Plug by Min-Kyu Choi
2009 Barack Obama Poster by Shepard Fairey
2008 One Laptop Per Child by Yves Béhar
 
The Design Museum
The Design Museum is building the world’s leading museum devoted to architecture and design, its work encompasses all elements of design, including fashion, product and graphic design. Since it opened its doors in 1989 the museum has displayed everything from an AK-47 to high heels designed by Christian Louboutin. It has staged over 100 exhibitions, welcomed over five million visitors and showcased the work of some of the world’s most celebrated designers and architects including Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, Miuccia Prada, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray and Dieter Rams. The Design Museum is relocating to the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, west London. The Design Museum will reopen on 24 November 2016. Leading architectural designer John Pawson has converted the interior of the Commonwealth Institute building to create a new home for the Design Museum giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions and significantly extend its learning programme.
 
Beazley
Beazley is a specialist insurer with operations in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Australia and is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, including professional indemnity, property, marine, reinsurance, accident and life, and political risks and contingency business.
 
For more information please go to: www.beazley.com
 

Richard Malone
Spring Summer 2016, Knitted Spin Dress.
Photo by Chris Yates
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Kids vs Fashion
Still from the video Kids vs. Fashion. Photo by Yolanda Dominguez
©Beazley Designs of the Year

Richard Malone
Spring Summer 2016, Knitted twist hem dress and trousers.
Photo by Chris Yates
©Beazley Designs of the Year

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