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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 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 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 8has claimed the only mobile phone nomination. The Digital category also includes the latest Gov.uk website. Zaha Hadidearns 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, architectLouis Kahnhas 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 anon-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 glassesfor children with
no access to opticians by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World
in Oxford; and a wheelchair that folds completely flatwith 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.
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