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Designs of the Year The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. They include the best designs from around the world in the last 12 months across seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished nominators, the awards compile the most original and exciting designs, prototypes and designers in the world today – brought together in an exhibition from 20 March-7 July 2013.
Consisting of over 90 nominations, this year’s contest includes the celebrated Olympic Cauldron by Heatherwick Studio; Western Europe’s tallest building – The Shard – designed by Renzo Piano; the boutique boat-shaped hotel room – A Room for London by David Kohn Architects; The Louis Vuitton collection by Yayoi Kusama; and the award-winning Exhibition Road by Dixon Jones, which integrates vehicle and foot traffic with its rejection of boundaries between pavement and road. Microsoft’s Windows phone 8 has claimed the only mobile phone nomination. The Digital category also includes the latest
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Zaha Hadid earns two nominations this year for the Galaxy Soho building in Beijing and the Liquid Glacial Table, which resembles running water. Forty years after his death, architect Louis Kahn has won a nomination for New York’s Four Freedoms Park which was finally completed at the end of 2012. The successful Barbican installation Rain Room by Random International, which produced queues of over three hours has received a nomination, and the venue’s Bauhaus exhibition is recognised for its graphics by APFEL.
Some of the most remarkable prototypes to emerge in the last year include a non-stick ketchup bottle invented by the Varanasi Research Group at MIT, which uses a special edible solution sprayed on the inside of the bottle; a prototype pair of self-adjustable glasses for children with no access to opticians by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World in Oxford; and a wheelchair that folds completely flat with its revolutionary collapsing wheels technology by Vitamins Design.
Key advances in technology are also recognised in the nominations such as the 3D printer and an apparatus coined Magic Arms, which has helped a girl suffering with arthrogryposis to regain mobility. The exhibition will open with the winners from
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LITTLE PRINTER Designed by Berg Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends. Use your smart phone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a miniature newspaper.
THE SHARD. Designed by Renzo Piano.
OLYMPIC CAULDRON Designed by Heatherwick Studio At just 8.5m high and weighing 16 tonnes, it is far smaller and lighter than previous Olympic Cauldrons. Heatherwick Studio incorporated 204 individual copper ‘petals’, each carried at the opening ceremony by every participating country to create an iconic image not only for the Olympics but also for London.
each category and one overall winner to be announced in April. Last year the award was won by design studio BarberOsgerby for the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
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KIOSK 2.0 Designed by Unfold Studio Inspired by the carts used by Berlin’s currywürst vendors, Kiosk 2.0 works as a mobile 3D printing station that brings design out of the studio and onto the streets.
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