london's design museum unveils 2017 designs of the year shortlist

the design museum in london has announced the contenders for the tenth edition of beazley designs of the year. the nominated projects include david adjaye’s national museum of african american history and culture in washington DC, the augmented reality mobile game pokémon GO, and BIG’s ‘alphabet of light’ produced for artemide. celebrating some of the world’s best and most influential pieces of design, the annual exhibition and awards comprises 62 nominations across six categories: architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product, and transport.

port house by zaha hadid architects / see more of the project on designboom here
image © hélène binet / all images courtesy of the design museum

alongside david adjaye, the architecture category includes some of the field’s biggest names, with zaha hadid architects nominated for the antwerp port house and OMA shortlisted for fondaco tedeschi, a contemporary urban department store which recently opened in venice. a plug-in hutong dwelling by beijing-based practice people’s architecture office and flores & prats’ revitalized theater in barcelona were also nominated.

graham: the only person designed to survive on our roads by patricia piccinini
see more of the project on designboom here

in addition to niantic’s pokémon GO, the digital category features graham, an interactive lifelike sculpture that illustrates the bodily features that would be needed to withstand a car crash, and OTHR, a 3D printing company that creates functional products for the home. the rapid liquid printing technique, described as an experimental new fabrication process, has also been shortlisted.

a performance hijab by NIKE that could ‘change the face of sport for muslim women’

fashion nominees feature a hijab designed by NIKE and the ‘pussyhat’ made and worn by anti-donald trump protesters. other shortlisted projects include a collaboration between levi strauss & co and google that adds touch and gesture interactivity into textiles.

contenders in the graphic category include the refugee nation flag by yara said and german photographer wolfgang tillmans’ remain campaign for the brexit referendum.

the refugee nation flag designed for the first ever olympic refugee team

in addition to bjarke ingels’ ‘alphabet of light’, the product category puts forward the world’s first translating earpiece, which currently works with 15 different languages but can be updated with more. gt2P’s furniture line made from molten lava is also included alongside a commercially available ink made from air pollution.

the transport list completes the six categories and includes the world’s first 3D printed self-driving bus and a new intersection road system developed by carlo ratti at MIT that could replace traffic lights.

‘scewo’ is a stairclimbing mobility device
see more of the project on designboom here

the selected projects were chosen by a panel of international designers, curators and creatives, and will be on display — in the form of sketches, models, physical pieces, videos and photography — from october 18, 2017 to january 28, 2018 at london’s design museum. a winner will be selected in each category and one overall winner will be announced on january 25, 2018. see the full list of nominated projects below.

mrs fan’s plug-in house by people’s architecture office
see more of the project on designboom here

architecture

— mrs fan’s plug-in house by people’s architecture office
— warka water by arturo vittori
— hegnhuset, memorial and learning centre on utøya, norway, 2016 by blakstad haffner architects
— wind and rain bridge by donn holohan
— smithsonian national museum of african american history and culture in washington D.C. by adjaye associates
— sala beckett theatre and international drama centre by flores & prats
— the calais builds project by grainne hassett with architecture students from university of limerick
— croft lodge studio by kate darby architects and david connor design
— lycée schorge secondary school by kéré architecture
— weltsadt- refugees’ memories and futures as models
— the environmental enhancement of the five dragons temple by urbanus
— port house by zaha hadid architects
— il fondaco tedeschi, venice by OMA

rapid liquid printing by self-assembly lab, MIT in collaboration with steelcase
see more of the project on designboom here

digital

— premier league on-air branding by dixonbaxi
— pierre chareau: modern architecture and design
— saydnaya: inside a syrian torture prison
— pokémon GO by Niantic Inc
— rapid liquid printing by self-assembly lab, MIT in collaboration with steelcase
— OTHR by joe doucet, dean disimone and evan clabots
— meet graham: the only person designed to survive on our roads by patricia piccinini for transport accident authority
— professional women emoji by agustin fonts, rachel been, mark davis, nicole bleuel and chang yang
— refugee text by kåre m. s. solvåg, caroline arvidsson, ciarán duffy
— google noto by google and monotype

levi’s® commuter™ trucker jacket with jacquard™ by google
see more of the project on designboom here

fashion

— pussyhat project by krista suhjayna zweiman, kat coyle and aurora lady
— new object research ‘the rite of spring/summer/autumn/winter’ by aitor throup
— upcycling the oceans by ecoalf
— life of pablo merchandise and pop-up stores by kanye west and mat vlasic for bravado
— levi’s® commuter™ trucker jacket with jacquard™ by google
— NIKE pro hijab

finding her by IC4 design for UN women egypt

graphics

— protest banner lending library
— finding her by IC4 design for UN women egypt
— ibiza mykonos jeremy corbyn (political posters) by michael oswell
— new logo and identity for reykjavik art museum by karlssonwilker
— N.A.A.F.I design identity
— me & EU by nathan smith and sam t smith
— real review by REAL with OK-RM
— wales nation brand by smörgåsbord studio
— sufferhead original stout by emeka ogboh
— fractured lands. the new york times magazine, august 14, 2016
— unit edition
— pro-EU anti-brexit poster campaign (vote remain 23 june), 2016
— the refugee nation flag by yara said

alphabet of light by BIG – bjarke ingels group for artemide
see more of the project on designboom here

product

— avy search and rescue drone by paul vastert, david wielemaker, christian mccabe and patrique zaman
— dansbana! vårby gård by dansbana!, anna fridolin, anna pang and teres selberg
— gita by piaggio fast forward
— buffalogrid – connecting the next billion
— alphabet of light by BIG – bjarke ingels group for artemide
— flax chair by christien meindertsma for LABEL/BREED
— AIR-INK by graviky labs
— remolten by gt2P (great things 2 people) with friedman benda
— wedge dowel by IKEA
— solid textile board benches by max lamb for really ApS and kvadrat
— rapid liquid printing by self-assembly lab, MIT in collaboration with steelcase
— nimuno loops by anine kirsten and max basler
— the pilot translating earpiece by waverly labs
— SNOO smart sleeper by yves béhar, fuseproject

‘olli’ by local motors is the world’s first 3D printed self-driving bus
see more of the project on designboom here

transport

— autonomous rail rapid transit (ART) by CRRC zhuzhou institute
— mahjouba initiative by eric van hove
— light traffic by carlo ratti at senseable city, massachusetts institute of technology (MIT)
— olli by local motors
— seabubbles by ailain thebault
— honda moto riding assist
— scewo by thomas gemperle, adrien weber, naomi stieger, stella mühlhaus, bernhard winter, pascal buholzer at the swiss federal institute of technology

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NIKE hijab, 3D-printed bus, and zaha hadid included on designs of the year shortlist

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