london design museum announces designs of the year 2015 nominees

london design museum announces designs of the year 2015 nominees

in its eighth year, the london design museum‘s ‘designs of the year‘ announces the nominees for 2015. the annual award acknowledges the global breadth of creativity and design talent across the diverse sectors of architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product, and transport design.

the 2015 shortlist of 76 studios and design practitioners — from over thirty countries across five continents — which include emerging practices, as well as some of the industry’s biggest names, were selected by design academics, experts and practitioners from across the world which the design museum invited to suggest potential projects. over the course of the next couple of months a prestigious jury composed of anish kapoor, artist (chair of the committee); nicole farhi, sculptor and fashion designer; tom lloyed, pearsonloyd; and farshid moussavi, architect and professor at harvard GSD (more to be announced), will review the nominations and select the category winners (announced on monday, may 4th), with the overall winner being revealed at an event at the design museum on thursday, june 4th.

the 2015 ‘designs of the year’ cover a wide-ranging scope of issues, and provide a snapshot of contemporary concerns in the creative world. here is a look at this years nominees:

‘arena do morrow’ in brazil by herzog & de meuron
photo © [email protected]
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architecture

arena do morro in natal, brazil — designed by herzog & de meuron
beijing no.4 high school fangshan campus in beijing, china — designed by open architecture
desert courtyard house in scottsdale, arizona, USA — designed by wendell burnette architects
forfatterhuset kindergarten in copenhagen, denmark — designed by COBE
fondation louis vuitton in paris, france — designed by frank gehry and gehry partners
house for trees in ho chi minh city, vietnam — designed by vo trong nghia architects
la última esperanza – the last hope in manabi, ecuador — designed by al borde
long museum west bund in shanghai, china — designed by atelier deshaus
markthal rotterdam in rotterdam, the netherlands — designed by MVRDV
one central park in sydney, australia — designed by ateliers jean nouvel
philharmonic hall szczecin in szczecin, poland — designed by barozzi / veiga
sancaklar mosque in istanbul, turkey — designed by emre arolat architects
saw swee hock student centre, london school of economics in london, UK — designed by o’donnell + tuomey
UC innovation center – anacleto angelini in santiago, chile — designed by elemental
waterbank campus at endana secondary school in laikipia, kenya — designed by pitchafrica

‘house in arizona’ in the USA by wendell burnette architects
photo by bill timmerman
image courtesy of wendell burnette architects
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‘fondation louis vuitton’ in france by frank gehry and gehry partners
image © iwan baan
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‘house for trees’ in vietnam by vo trong nghia architects
photo by hiroyuki oki
image courtesy of vo trong nghia architects
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‘markthal’ in the netherlands by MVRDV
photo by ossip van duivenbode
image courtesy ®provast, MVRDV
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‘innovation center UC’ in chile by elemental
photo © nico saieh
image courtesy of elemental
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‘waterbank campus’ in kenya by PITCHAfrica
photo by aggrey maganga
image courtesy of PITCHAfrica
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digital

disclosed —  designed by marion ferrec at the royal college of art, in collaboration with kate wakely
megafaces — designed by asif khan
monument valley — designed by ustwogames
no man’s sky — designed by sean murray
of instruments and archetypes — designed by claire warnier + dries verbruggen, unfold (concept, design & hardware),responsive street furniture — designed by ross atkin (conceptual design and digital system development), jonathan scott (physical design and engineering)
shadowing — designed by jonathan chomko, matthew rosier
the ocean cleanup — designed by boyan slat (CEO and founder), jan de sonneville phd (lead engineer), erwin zwart (designer)
the refugee project — designed by hyperakt
the walls have eyes — designed by libby miller, jasmine cox, andrew nicolaou (BBC research and development)

‘the refugee project’ by hyperakt
image courtesy of the refugee project
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fashion

archivist — designed by jane howard (fashion director, co-founder), michael harrison (art director, co-founder), dal chodha (editor), axel hoedt (photography), judith clarke (contributor)back ss15 collection — designed by ann-sofie backfausto puglisi AW14/15 collection — designed by fausto puglisiJ.W. anderson SS15 women’s catwalk show — designed by jonathan anderson with collection stylist benjamin bruno and milliner noel stewart for J.W. andersonraf simons / sterling ruby AW14/15 — designed by raf simons (designer) and sterling ruby (artist)rodarte AW14 – designed by kate and laura mulleavy
satu maaranen / collection SS15 geometry of futufolk — designed by satu maaranen
thomas tait AW13/14 — designed by thomas tait

‘MIT media lab identity’ by pentagram
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graphics

100 years of swiss graphic design — designed by christian brändle, karin gimmi, barbara junod, christina reble, bettina richter (editors), norm/dimitri bruni, manuel krebs, teo schifferli, ludovic varone (design), martina mullis (production), lars müller (publisher)
designing for the sixth extinction — designed by alexandra daisy ginsberg
franchise animated — designed by jeroen krielaars (initiator and participating artist), derek weathersby (type designer), clark rhee + wesley slover (music and sound design)
glasgow international — designed by kellenberger–white
inglorious fruits & vegetables — designed by marcel for intermarché
jurriaan schrofer (1926-1990) — designed by jaap van triest and karel martens (design), frederike huygen (author), astrid vorstermans, valiz (publishers)
kenzopedia — designed by toni halonen for kenzo paris
MIT media lab identity — designed by pentagram
no.5 culture chanel — designed by irma boom
proposals for banknote designs for the central bank of norway — designed by metric design and snøhetta design
riposte magazine — designed by danielle pender (founder & editor), shaz madani (creative director)
the way of the shovel: art as archaeology scratch-off campaign — designed by romain andré and michael savona
wired custom typeface — designed by sawdust (typeface design) and andrew diprose (art direction)

proposals for the banknote designs for the central bank of norway by metric design and snøhetta
image courtesy of snøhetta
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product

10 100 1000 (tenhundredthousand) — designed by la metropolitana (project management + conceptualization),
air-purifying billboard — designed by the university of engineering and technology of peru
blue diversion — designed by eawag (the swiss federal institute of aquatic science and technology) and eoos
BRCK — designed by erik hersman, reg orton, philip walton
the brydgeair — designed by nicholas smith (CEO) and eddy vromen (technical director)
current table — designed by marjan van aubel in collaboration with solaronix
DIY gamer kit — designed by technology will save us
double O — designed by paul cocksedge studio
dragonfly — designed by odo fioravanti
endgrain — designed by yael mer and shay alkalay
the extrapolation factory — designed by elliott p. montgomery and chris woebken
field experiments: indonesia — designed by benjamin harrison bryant, paul marcus fuog and karim charlebois-zariffa
‘grow it yourself’ mushroom® materials — designed by eben bayer (ceo), gavin mcintyre (chief scientist), gordon macpherson (project manager), danielle trofe (designer), sam harrington, stephen nock
human organs-on-chips — designed by donald ingber and dan dongeun
kano computer kit — designed by kano and map
man machine — designed by konstantin grcic for galerie kreo
miito — designed by nils chudy, jasmina grase, rebekka mueller
moocall SMS calving alert sensor — designed by lyndsey bryce, christopher murphy and niall austin
project daniel: 3D printing limbs — designed by mick ebeling / not impossible
qardioarm — designed by marco peluso (inventor), rosario iannella (inventor), clara gaggero westaway (designer),
sabi space — designed by map project office
strap chair — designed by scholten & baijings
switch light — designed by joel hoff

‘double O’ bike light by paul cocksedge
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‘endgrain’ by yael mer and shay alkalay
photo by max creasy

‘man machine’ by konstantin grcic for galerie kreo
image courtesy of galerie kreo
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‘google self-driving car’ by yoojung ahn, jared gross and philipp haban
image courtesy of google
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transport

dainese D-air bag street — designed by vittorio cafaggi
google self-driving-car — designed by yoojung ahn (lead industrial designer), jared gross (industrial designer), philipp haban (industrial designer)
i8 — designed by adrian van hooydonk
loopwheels — designed by sam pearce for jelly products
model S — designed by franz von holzhausen / tesla motors
yamaha motor company motiv.e city car — designed by masato suzuki (yamaha motor company) and gordon murray design limited

‘tesla model S’ by franz von holzhausen
image courtesy of tesla motors
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