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Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year nominees for 2018
United Kingdom Architecture News - Oct 02, 2018 - 05:26 17012 views
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna, the world’s first plastic-free shopping aisle, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum are named among Beazley Designs of the Year nominees for 2018, by London's Design Museum.
The Design Museum has announced the 87 nominees for the eleventh Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards, revealing the most innovate designs of the last year
Nominees include a water bottle by Will and Jaden Smith, Nike’s crest for the Dutch women’s football team by Wieden+Kennedy and the LEGO House by Bjarke Ingels Group.
Bjarke Ingels Group's Lego House in Denmark. Image © Iwan Baan
Concern over the environment is a major theme, as seen in Formafantasma’s recycled furniture, LADbible’s Trash Isles campaign and an animation illustrating the dangers of mounting space debris
Nominations also include electronic self-healing and recyclable skin, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Burberry’s rainbow check and Royal Ballet costumes designed by Erdem.
The annual exhibition and awards, supported by specialist insurer Beazley, comprises of 87 nominations across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and critics, the awards showcase the most original and impactful products, concepts and designers in the world today.
Nigeria National Football Team: National Team Collection by Nike
Sketches, models, prototypes, videos and photography will be on display for all the nominations and will provide a compelling snapshot of the currentworld of design. Combining the world’s most established talent alongsidegraduates 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.
Beazley Designs of the Year will be on display from 12 September 2018 to 6 January 2019.
Scroll down to see the full list of nominees below:
Nigeria National Football Team: National Team Collection by Nike
Fashion
Burberry Rainbow Check by Burberry
Nigeria National Football Team: National Team Collection by Nike
Black Panther costume design by Ruth E Carter
Royal Ballet costumes for Christopher Wheeldon’s production of Corybantic Games by Erdem Moralıoğlu
Zoa by Modern Meadow
Goldwin Ski Jacket by Goldwin with Spiber materials
Hotel Palomo: Spring Summer 2018 Menswear by Palomo Spain
D-Staq RFTPi denim jacket by G-Star RAW with Artistic Milliners, DyStar and Saitex
TELFAR Fall-Winter 2018 Collection by TELFAR
Vigilamus by Matty Bovan
Made by Rain by Aliki van der Kruijs
Horizon Infinity by Marisa and Marie Gnanaraj
Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum in the UAE. Louvre Abu Dhabi - Germination by Giuseppe Penone © Roland Halbe - Louvre Abu Dhabi - Architecte Jean Nouvel
Architecture
MycoTree by Sustainable Construction (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Block Research Group (ETH Zürich)
Copenhagen Islands by Marshall Blecher and Magnus Maarbjerg
The Common Stove by Matali Crasset
SESC 24 de Maio by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB Arquitetos
Digua Community by Shu Zhou
Small is Meaningful by Design Trust Futures Studio
Jintai village reconstruction by Rural Urban Framework
Chaoyang Park Plaza by MAD. Image © Iwan Baan
Chaoyang Park Plaza by MAD
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa by Heatherwick Studio
Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel
Qatar National Library by OMA
Gulshan Society Jame Mosque by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA
Stone Matters by AAU Anastas/Scales and Laboratoire GSA
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa by Heatherwick Studio. Image © Iwan Baan
Microlibrary at Taman Bima by SHAU Indonesia
Fuyang Cultural Complex by Amateur Architecture Studio
Ganga Maki Textile Studio by Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai
LEGO House by BIG
Lumen by Jenny Sabin Architects
Bío Bío Regional Theatre by Smiljan Radic, Eduardo Castillo and Gabriela Medrano
Franchise Freedom by Studio Drift
Digital
aibo ERS-1000 by Sony Corporation
Franchise Freedom by Studio Drift
Technology interfaces for Blade Runner 2049 by Territory Studio
Choose Love shop by Help Refugees in partnership with Glimpse
Bad News by Gusmanson and DROG
Gucci Spring Summer 2018 campaign: #GucciHallucination by Ignasi Monreal (artwork), Alessandro Michele (creative direction) and Christopher Simmonds (art direction)
Verificado19s by Anonymous Collective
Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London by Forensic Architecture
Space Debris – A Journey to Earth by European Space Agency with ID&SENSE and ONiRiXEL
Oto Nové Swiss by Studio Feixen
Graphics
Mushpit #10 by Mushpit with Richard Turley
Netherlands Women’s National Football Team crest by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for Nike
Migrant Journal by Offshore Studio (art direction) and Justinien Tribillon (editor)
Aravrit by Liron Lavi Turkenich
Visual identity for the Czech Railway Infrastructure Association by Studio Marvil
Hoarding for the Apple Store Taipei 101 by Yang Shiyi
Oto Nové Swiss by Studio Feixen
Trash Isles by Plastic Oceans Foundation with LADbible
Plastic-free aisle by A Plastic Planet and Made Thought for Ekoplaza
Save Our Species T-shirt by Lacoste with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Bleached by Erez Nevi Pana
Product
Algae Lab by Studio Klarenbeek & Dros at Atelier Luma
Totomoxtle by Fernando Laposse
Self-healing e-skin by Jianliang Xiao, Wei Zhang, Zhanan Zou and Chengpu Zhu
Glowing Plants by Seonyeong Kwak and Michael Strano, Strano Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bleached by Erez Nevi Pana
Paperfuge by Prakash Lab
Nest ceramic heaters by Estudio äCo
Unhomely by Chris Schanck
Quicksee by PlenOptika
SurgiBox by Debbie Teodorescu, Mike Teodorescu, Stephen Okajima and Team SurgiBox
Ori Studio Collection by Ori with fuseproject
Medal design for PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics by Sukwoo Lee at SWNA
Pretziada by Ivano Atzori and Kyre Chenven
You & I rug collection by Nada Debs and FBMI
Excavation: Evicted by Paul Cocksedge, supported by Friedman Benda and Beatrice Trussardi
Excavation: Evicted by Paul Cocksedge, supported by Friedman Benda and Beatrice Trussardi
Unhomely by Chris Schanck
Nintendo Labo by Nintendo
New £1 coin by Royal Mint and David Pearce
Tetra countertop dishwasher by Heatworks and frog
Ceramic Tap Water Carafe by Lotte de Raadt
Jellyfish Vase by Nendo
JUST Water by Drew FitzGerald, Kara Rubin, Madwell and Tetra Pak
Ore Streams by Studio Formafantasma
Trashpresso by Miniwiz
Metamorphism by Shahar Livne
Metamorphism by Shahar Livne
Caskia/Growing a MarsBoot by Liz Ciokajlo (OurOwnSkin) with Maurizio Montalti (Officina Corpuscoli)
Arrangements by Michael Anastassiades for Flos
JINS Design Project #01: New Normal by JINS and Jasper Morrison
Re-engineered Brown Betty Teapot by Ian McIntyre
ENEA walking stick by Shiro Studio with Arup UK and MHOX
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna
Virgin Hyperloop One by Hyperloop One
Transport
City Brain by City Brain Open Research (Wang Jian, Xue Guirong, Li Zhengui and Wang Min)
Virgin Hyperloop One by Hyperloop One
Kalk electric motorbike by CAKE
Falcon Heavy by SpaceX
Mobike Lite by Naoto Fukasawa for Mobike
Top image: Copenhagen Islands by Marshall Blecher and Magnus Maarbjerg
All images courtesy of Design Museum, unless otherwise stated.
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