DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012

The Design Museum has announced the projects nominated for the Designs of the Year 2013. Last years winner was The Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby, see more details of last years winners and exhibition here. This year my vote goes to Thomas Heatherwick, for his beautiful and unique olympic torch, but will they have olympic torches winning on two consecutive years? I also think 'The Shard' by Renzo Piano is another strong contender. In my opinion, a beautiful building and such a huge project! Sometimes, its almost invisible as light is reflected off every side of it. Here is the not-so-short shortlist: ARCHITECTURE A Room For London, (Southbank Centre), UK Designed by David Kohn Architects in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner Astley Castle, Warwickshire, UK Designed by Witherford Watson Mann Book Mountain, Spijkenisse, Holland Designed by MVRDV Clapham Library, London, UK Designed by Studio Egret West Four Freedoms Park, New York, USA Designed by Louis Kahn Galaxy Soho, Bejing Designed by Zaha Hadid Home For All, (Venice 2012 Architecture Biennale) Designed by Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto, Kumiko, Inui and Toyo Ito Ikea Disobedients, (Performed at MoMA PS1), New York Designed by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos Kukje Art Centre, Seoul Designed by SO-IL La Tour Bois-Le-Prêtre, Paris Designed by Druot, Lacaton and Vassal Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast Designed by Hackett Hall McKnight MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Cleveland, USA Designed by Farshid Moussavi Architects Museum of Innocence, Istanbul Designed by Orhan Pamuk with Ihsan Bilgin, Cem Yucel and Gregor Sunder Plassmann Thalia Theatre, Lisbon Designed by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos & Barbas Lopes Arquitectos The Shard, London, UK Designed by Renzo Piano T-Site, Tokyo Designed by Klein Dytham Superkilen, Nørrebro, Denmark Designed by BIG, TOPOTEK1 and Superflex DIGITAL Candles In The Wind Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer for Ingo Maurer City Tracking Pt 2 Designed by Stamen Chirp Designed by Patrick Bergel Dashilar App Designed by Nippon Design Centre Inc. Digital Postcard and Player Designed by Uniform English Hedgerow Plate Designed by Andrew Tanner and Unanico for Royal Winton Free Universal Construction Kit Designed by Free Art and Technology Lab Gov.UK Website Designed by Government Digital Service Light Field Camera Designed by Lytro Superstitious Fund Project Designed by Shing Tat Chung Rain Room, (The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery) Designed by rAndom International Raspberry Pi Computer Designed by Eben Upton Wind Map Designed by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Bertini Viegas Windows Phone 8 Designed by Microsoft Zombies, Run! App Designed by Six to Start FASHION A/W12 Collection Designed by Craig Green A/W12 Womenswear Designed by Giles Deacon Anna Karenina Costumes Designed by Jacqueline Durran Christian Dior RTW S/S13 Designed by Raf Simons Commes De Garçons RTW A/W12 Designed by Rei Kawakubo Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel Directed by Lisa Immordino I Want Muscle Directed by Elisha Smith-Leverock Louis Vuitton Collection Designed by Yayoi Kusama Prada S/S12 RTW Collection Designed by Miuccia Prada Proenza Schouler A/W12 Collection Designed by Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough FURNITURE 100 Chairs Designed by Marni A-Collection Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bourellec for Hay Corniches Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra Engineering Temporality Designed by Studio Markunpoika Future Primitives Designed by Muller Van Severen Gravity Stool Designed by Jolan Van Der Wiel Liquid Glacial Table Designed by Zaha Hadid Medici Chair Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi Re-Imagined Chairs Designed by Studiomama (Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama) Tié Paper Chair Designed by Pinwu The Sea Chair Designed by Studio Swine & Kieren Jones Well Proven Chair Designed by James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel GRAPHICS Kapow! Written by Adam Thirlwell and designed by Studio Frith Austria Solar Annual Report Designed by Serviceplan Australian Cigarette Packaging Commissioned by Australian Government Department for Health and Ageing Bauhaus: Art As Life Exhibition (Barbican Art Gallery) Designed by A Practice For Everyday Life Dekho: Conversations on Design in India Designed by CoDesign Doc Lisboa '12 Designed by Pedro Nora Made in Los Angeles: Work by Colby Poster Printing Co. Designed by Anthony Burrill Occupied Times Of London Designed by Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis Organic Designed by Kapitza Ralph Ellison Collection Designed by Cordon Webb Rijksmuseum Identity Designed by Irma Boom Strelka Identity Designed by OK:RM The Gentlewoman #6 Designed by Veronica Ditting Venice Architecture Biennale Identity Designed by John Morgan Zumtobel Annual Report Designed by Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor PRODUCT Bang & Olufsen 'Beolit 12' Designed by Cecile Manz Child Vision Glasses Designed by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World Colalife Designed by Simon Berry Colour Porcelain Designed by Scholten & Baijings/1616 Arita Japan E- Source Designed by Hal Watts Faceture Vases Designed by Phil Cuttance Federic Malle Travel Sprays Designed by Pierre Hardy Flyknit Trainers Designed by Nike Kiosk 2.0 Designed by Unfold Studio Liquiglide Ketchup Bottle Designed by Dave Smith/Varanasi Research Group MIT Little Printer Designed by Berg Little Sun Designed by Olafur Eliasson 3D Printed Exoskeleton 'Magic Arms' Designed by Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Philadelphia Oigen Kitchenware Designed by Jasper Morrison/Japan Creative Olympic Cauldron Designed by Heatherwick Studio Papa Foxtrot Toys Designed by PostlerFerguson Plug Lamp Designed by Form Us With Love Replicator 2 Designed by MakerBot Switch Collection Designed by Inga Sempe for Legrand Surface Tension Lamp Designed by Front Tekio Designed by Anthony Dickens w127 Lamp Designed by Dirk Winkel TRANSPORT Air Access Seat Designed by Priestmangoode Donky Bicycle Designed by Ben Wilson Exhibition Road Designed by Dixon Jones / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea i3 Concept Car Designed by BMW Mando Footloose Chainless Bicycle Designed by Mark Sanders Morph Folding Wheel Designed by Vitamins Design/Maddak Inc. N-ONE Designed by Honda Olympics Wayfaring Designed by TfL /JEDCO / LOCOG The exhibition is on at the design museum from 20 March – 07 July. I went last year, and its usually a great exhibition if your in or around London at some point in the next few months! JS