A Love Letter For You, USA, designed by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Eager to find out how 2010 fared in design terms? Across all design fields, from architecture to graphics, product design to interactive? Well, the Design Museum in London has the answer (well, one answer) for you, with the announcement of this year’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award nominations.
The nominations for the BIDY awards are in seven categories, each representing one area of design: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product, and transport are all featured. All entries have been put forward by people within the design industry, including CR’s Patrick Burgoyne, and the pieces nominated will be shown together at the Design Museum from February 16, in a bumper exhibition that aims to provide a snapshot of the last year in design.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, UK, designed by A Practice For Everyday Life // Published by Visual Editions
As in previous years, this will be an eclectic exhibition, with nominations from 2010 including the Angry Birds game (by Rovio Mobile), Yves Behar’s Swarovski Chandeliers, the Apple iPad, Gareth Pugh’s Spring/Summer ’11 clothing collection, and UVA’s Speed of Light installation, commissioned by Virgin Media. Combining so many genres of design in one show can result in a slightly incoherent display, but the BIDY Awards do offer a clear sense of the impact and importance of design to the world we live in, and how far its reach now stretches.
Speed of Light, UK, designed by United Visual Artists // Commissioned by Virgin Media
After the show has been open to the public for a month, a judging panel chaired by design writer and curator Stephen Bayley (and featuring novelist Will Self, graphic designer Mark Farrow, and Poke and Fray founder Simon Waterfall) will pick one design of the year from across the seven categories. Our money is on the iPad picking up this year’s award, but what do you think?
The full list of nominees are below. They make for a good list, but does this say 2010 in design to you? What’s missing? The list is dominated by design from Europe and the US – is this a flaw of the nomination system or is the best design simply coming from these regions? Are there works you feel shouldn’t have been included? Please give us your views in the comments box below.
1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, USA, Robert Wennett // Herzog & de Meuron
Architecture
1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, USA
Robert Wennett // Herzog & de Meuron
A Forest for a Moon Dazzler, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Benjamin Garcia Saxe
Balancing Barn, Suffolk, UK
Mvrdv // Co-architect: Mole Architects // Client: Living Architecture
Burj Khalif, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) // Client: EMAAR
Concrete Canvas Shelters, UK
Concrete Canvas (Peter Brewin, William Crawford and Phillip Greer)
Ladakh Commonwealth Peace Pavilion and Classroom, Tibet
Sergio Palleroni // Basic Initiative
Media-Tic Building, Barcelona
Enric Ruiz-Geli // Cloud 9
Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Caruso St John Architects // Client: Nottingham City Council
Open-Air-Library Magdeburg, Germany
Karo Architekten // Architektur+Netzwerk // Cllient: Landeshaupstadt Magdeburg
Stonebridge Hillside Hub, Greater London
Edward Cullinan Architects // Client: Hyde Housing Association/Hillside Action Trust
Tape installations, Austria // Croatia
Numen / For Use
UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010, China
Thomas Heatherwick Studio
University of Oxford: Department of Earth Sciences, UK
Wilkinson Eyre Architects // Client: University of Oxford
Vitrahaus – Weil am Rhine, Germany
Herzog & de Meuron // Client: Vitra Verwaltungs gmbh
Void House, Belgium
Gon Zifroni in collaboration with Pom-Archi
Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer ’11, UK
Fashion
Comme des Garçons Trading Museum Tokyo, Japan
Designed and conceived by Rei Kawakubo
Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer ’11, UK
Designed by Gareth Pugh
Lanvin Spring/Summer ’11, France
Designed by Alber Elbaz
Margaret Howell Plus Shirt, UK
Designed by Kenneth Grange and Margaret Howell
Melonia Shoe, Sweden
Designed by Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf
Ohne Titel Spring/Summer ’11, USA
Designed by Flora Gill and Alexa Adams
Organic Jewellery Collection, Brazil
Designed by Flavia Amadeu
Tess Giberson Spring/Summer ’11, Shift, USA
Designed by Tess Giberson // Carol Bove // Alia Raza
Uniqlo +J Autumn/Winter’10
Designed by Jil Sander for Uniqlo
Vigna Chair, Italy, designed by Martino Gamper // Manufactured by Magis
Furniture
Branca, Italy
Designed by Industrial Facility, Sam Hecht, Kim Colin, Ippei Matsumoto
Collec+ors Collection, Australia
Designed by Khai Liew // Kirsten Coelho // Gwyn Hanssen Pigott // Bruce Nuske // Prue Venables // Julie Blyfield // Jessica Loughlin
Drop Table, Italy
Designed by Junya Ishigami // Manufactured by Living Divani
Dune, Austria
Designed by Rainer Mutsch // Manufactured by Eternit
Endless, Netherlands
Designed by Dirk Vander Kooij
Origin Part I: Join, Netherlands
Designed by BCXSY in collaboration with Mr Tanaka
Plytube, UK
Designed by Seongyong Lee
Sayl Task Chair, USA
Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject // Manufactured by Herman Miller
Solo Bench, Brazil
Designed by Domingos Totora // Manufactured by Touch
Spun, Italy
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick Studio // Manufactured by Magis
Thin Black Lines, Japan
Designed by Nendo // Exhibited by Phillips de Pury & Company at the Saatchi Gallery, London
Vigna Chair, Italy
Designed by Martino Gamper // Manufactured by Magis
Four Corners Familiars Series, UK, designed by John Morgan Studio and collaborators
Graphics
A Love Letter For You, USA
Designed by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Coalition of the Willing, UK
Direction and production by Knife Party // Written by Tim Rayner // Voiceover artist Colin Tierne
Design Criminals Edible Catalogue, Austria
Designed by Andreas Pohancenik
Four Corners Familiars Series, UK
Designed by John Morgan Studio and collaborators
Homemade is Best, Sweden
Designed by Forsman & Bodenfors for Ikea
Irma Boom: Biography in Books, Netherlands
Designed by Irma Boom // Published by Grafsiche Cultuurstichting
I Wonder, Canada
Written, illustrated and designed by Marian Bantjes // Published by Thames & Hudson
London College of Communication Summer Show ’10, UK
Designed by Studio Myserscough
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, UK
Designed by A Practice For Everyday Life // Published by Visual Editions
Unit Editions, UK
Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy
Angry Birds, Finland, designed by Rovio Mobile
Interactive
Angry Birds, Finland
Designed by Rovio Mobile
Cellscope, USA
Designed by Professor Daniel Fletcher and the Cellscope Team // Aardman Animation // Wieden + Kennedy // Commissioned by Nokia
E.chromi, UK
Designed by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg // James King // In collaboration with Cambridge University’s Igem Team
Flipboard, USA
Designed by Mike Mccue and Evan Doll
Guardian Eyewitness app, UK
Designed by the Guardian Technology Team (Jonathan Moore, Alastair Dent, Andy Rockie, Martin Redington and Roger Tooth)
Mimosa, Italy
Designed by Jason Bruges Studio for Philips Lumiblade
Paint, UK
Designed by Greyworld for Nokia
Reactable Mobile, Spain
Designed by Reactable Systems
Rock Band 3, USA
Designed by Harmonix Music Systems
Speed of Light, UK
Designed by United Visual Artists // Commissioned by Virgin Media
The Elements iPad app, USA
Designed by Touchpress // Written byTheodore Gray
The Johnny Cash Project, USA
Chris Milk // Aaron Koblin // @radical.media // Rick Rubin // The Cash Estate
Wallpaper* Custom Covers, UK
Designed and developed by Kin // Art direction by Meirion Pritchard // Content by Anthony Burrill, James Joyce, Hort, Kam Tang and Nigel Robinson
Wired Magazine app, USA
Designed and developed by Scott Dadich and Jeremy Clark // Conde Nast Digital
Dyson Air Multiplier Fan, UK, designed by James Dyson
Product
Act Fire Extinguisher, Norway
Designed by Sigrun Vik
Amplify Chandelier, USA
Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject for Swarovski
Apple iPad, USA
Designed by Apple
Blueware Collection, UK
Designed by Studio Glithero
Contemplating Monolithic Design, Italy
Created by Barberosgerby and Sony Design // Exhibition design by Universal Design Studios
Universal Gown, UK
Designed by Ben de Lisi
Diamant Coffin Series, Denmark
Designed by Jacob Jensen Design // Manufactured by Tommerup Kister
Dyson Air Multiplier Fan, UK
Designed by James Dyson
Freecom CLS Mobile Drive, Belgium // Germany
Designed by Sylvain Willenz // Manufactured by Freecom
Flying Future, Germany
Designed by Ingo Maurer
In-betweening Clock, UK
Designed by Hye-Yeon Park
Intimate Rider, USA
Designed by Alan Tholkes
Leveraged Freedom Chair, USA
Designed by Mit Mobility Laboratory
One Arm Drive System, UK
Designed and developed by Mark Owen and Jon Owen // Manufactured by Nomad Wheelchairs Ltd
Pavegen, UK
Designed by Pavegen Systems Ltd
Playing with Lego® Bricks and Paper, Japan // Denmark
Designed by Muji // Lego®
Plumen 001, UK
Concept and design direction: Hulger // Design: Samuel Wilkinson
Prampack, Norway
Designed by Kadabra Produktdesign // Invented by Anne Morkemo // Manufactured by Stokke
Quartz Series, UK
Designed by Max Lamb // Manufactured by J & L Lobmeyr, Austria
See Better to Learn Better, USA // Mexico
Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject // In partnership with Augen Optics
Wall piercing, Italy
Designed by Ron Gilad // Manufactured by Flos
Yii, Taiwan
Conceived by National Taiwan Craft Research Institute (NTCRI) and Taiwan Design Center (TDC) // Creative direction by Gijs Bakker
Diamant Coffin Series, Denmark, designed by Jacob Jensen Design // Manufactured by Tommerup Kister
Transport
Barclays Cycle Hire, UK
Serco // Transport for London
Dezir, France
Designed by Laurens van den Acker for Renault
En-v, USA
Designed by General Motors
Fiat 500 Twinair, Italy
Designed and developed by Fiat Style and FPT Fiat Powertrain
Riversimple, UK
Designed by Riversimple
Vanmoof no 5, Netherlands
Designed by Vanmoof
Yikebike, New Zealand
Designed by Grant Ryan
The Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition opens at the Design Museum in London on February 16 and will run until August 7. For more info on the exhibition and the awards, visit designmuseum.org.