Designs of the year 2013
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Designs of the year 2013
Design Museum, London
The Design Museum announces 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.
The Design Museum announces 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 a
Design Museum exhibition from 20 March – 7 July 2013.
Consisting of over 90 nominations, this year’s contest include the celebrated
Olympic Cauldron by Heatherwick Studio; Western Europe’s tallest
building – The Shard designed by Renzo Piano; the boutique boatshaped
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 Gov.uk website.
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 featuring all the nominations will open 20 March 2013 with
the winners from each category and one overall winner to be announced in
April. Last year the prestigious award was won by design studio
BarberOsgerby for the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
Press enquires, image and interview requests:
Claire Thomas, Press Manager, Design Museum
Tel: +44 (0) 207 940 8787 Email:claire@designmuseum.org
Press View: 19 March at 9am
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames SE1 2YD, London
Hours: 10.00 -17.45 daily. Last admission: 17.15
Admissions: £10.75 Adults, £9.70 Concessions, £6.50 Students, Under
12s Free.