London, 11 January 2012: The Design Museum announces the longlist for the fifth annual Designs of the Year Awards. Showcasing a year in design, the 2012 longlist is a celebration of the best in global designs. Industry experts have nominated innovative and engaging designs across seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport.
They include Textile Field, by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec with Kvadrat, a major Landmark Project for the 2011 London Design Festival, and Noma Bar's Cut It Out at Outline Editions, also from the London Design Festival 2011.
Noma Bar, Cut It Out, Outline Editions, London Design Festival 2011
The longlist covers an eclectic mix of designs including the Olympic Torch 2012 for London, designed by Barber Osgerby, the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding Dress, designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and a wind-propelled Landmine Detonator which cost $40 to produce. Nominations also include the Kinect for Xbox 360, the first ever Virtual Tesco Store, the Olympic 2012 Velodrome and a pop-up cinema (Folly for a Flyover, pictured below) in Hackney, East London.
Yves Béhar winner of the inaugural Design of the Year in 2008 for his One Laptop per Child, continues his run of being nominated in each year since the awards inception, this year Béhar is nominated for his JAMBOX wireless music speaker. Bethan Laura Wood, a previous Designer in Residence at the Design Museum, receives her first two nominations in this year's awards, her Totem Chandelier and Moon Rock tables, both of which were showcased at Milan's Salone del Mobile in 2011 are nominated in the Product and Furniture category.
All of the nominations will be on show at the Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum from 8 February - 15 July 2012. From this comprehensive list of nominations, a prestigious jury will select the seven category winners and an overall winner for the Design of the Year 2012. The winners will be announced at an Awards Night held at the Design Museum on 24 April.
Exhibition curator Ria Hawthorn comments 'From the everyday practicality of a carefully crafted dining chair to the thought-provoking solar powered3D printing machine that points to the future, this year's nominees reflect the diversity of design in all its forms, showcasing designs that will have an impact on our everyday and future lives'.
Details of the jury and Awards Night will be announced shortly.
Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition runs 8 February - 15 July, Design Museum, London
2012 NOMINATIONS
ARCHITECTURE
Butaro Hospital, Butaro, Rwanda
MASS Design Group
Folly for a Flyover, London, UK
Assemble CIC
Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou, China
Zaha Hadid Architects
Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
David Chipperfield Architects
Home for Senior Citizens, Huise-Zingem, Belgium
Sergison Bates Architects LLP
Maggies Centre, Gartnavel, Glasgow, UK
OMA
National Park of Mali Buildings, Bamako, Mali
Diébédo Francis Kéré of Kéré Architecture
Moses Bridge, Fort de Roovere, Netherlands
RO&AD Architects
Olympic 2012 Velodrome, London, UK
Hopkins Architects
Spaceport America, New Mexico
Foster + Partners
The Iron Market, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
John McAslan + Partners
Youth Factory, Mérida, Spain
Selgascano, Gestaltskate and Jarex
DIGITAL
BBC Homepage Version 4, London, UK
BBC
Beck's Green Box project
Beck's
Face Substitution, New York, USA
Arturo Castro and Kyle McDonald
Guardian iPad edition, London, UK
Guardian News and Media in consultation with Mark Porter
High Arctic, National Maritime Museum, London, UK
United Visual Artists
Homeplus Tesco Virtual Store, Seoul, South Korea
Homeplus Tesco
Letter to Jane, Portland, USA
Tim Moore
Microsoft Kinect and Kinect SDK
Microsoft Games Studios, Microsoft Research and Xbox, UK and USA
Musicity, London, UK
Concept by Nick Luscombe and Simon Jordan and designed by Jump Studios
The Stanley Parable, California, USA
Written and created by Davey Wreden
Suwappu, London, UK
Dentsu London, UK, in consultation with BERG
FASHION
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Andrew Bolton with the support of Harold Koda of The Costume Institute, New York, USA
The Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding Dress, London, UK
Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen
Céline Autumn/Winter '11, Paris, France
Phoebe Philo at Céline
Late Night Chameleon Café, London, UK
Store design: Gary Card, Creative director: John Skelton, Brand director: Dan Mitchell
Mary Katrantzou Autumn/Winter '11, London, UK
Mary Katrantzou
Melissa + Gaetano Pesce Boot and Flip Flip, New York, USA
Gaetano Pesce, Manufactured by Melissa, Brazil
Oratory Jacket, London, UK
Will Carleysmith, Head of Design at Brompton Bicycle Ltd
Suno Spring/Summer '11, New York, USA
Suno
Vivienne Westwood Ethical Fashion Africa Collection, Autumn/Winter '11
Vivienne Westwood, London, UK
132.5, Tokyo, Japan
Miyake Design Studio
FURNITURE
Balsa Furniture, London, UK
Kihyun Kim
Chassis, Munich, Germany
Stefan Diez
The Crates, Beijing, China
Naihan Li & Co
Earthquake Proof Table, Jerusalem, Israel
Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno
Harbour Chair, London, UK
André Klauser and Ed Carpenter
Hemp Chair, Berlin, Germany
Studio Aisslinger
Lightwood, London, UK
Jasper Morrison
Moon Rock Tables, London, UK
Bethan Laura Wood
Not So Expanded Polystyrene (NSEPS) , London, UK
Attua Aparicio & Oscar Wanless at SILO
Oak Inside, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Christien Meindertsma
Osso, Paris, France
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Textile Field at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, fabric by Kvadrat
Tip Ton, London, UK
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby
Waver, Munich, Germany
Konstantin Grcic
XXXX_Sofa, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Yuya Ushida
Harbour Chair, London, UK
GRAPHICS
AA Files, London, UK
John Morgan Studio
Beauty is in the Street, London, UK
Four Corners Books, Cover designed by John Morgan
Book interior designed by Pierre Le Hors
Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, USA
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, UK
Why Not Associates
Cover artwork and video for Join Us by They Might Be Giants, New York, USA
Paul Sahre
Cut it Out, London, UK
Noma Bar
Matthew Hilton identity and website, London, UK
Spin
Nokia Pure Font, London, UK
Dalton Maag
One Thousand Cranes for Japan
Concept by Anomaly and Unit 9, London, UK
Photo-Lettering, Yorklyn, USA
House Industries
Promotional sample book for GF Smith, London, UK
SEA Design
Stockmann packaging, Helskinki, Finland
Kokoro & Moi
Self Service
Editor-in-chief: Ezra Petronio
What Design Can Do! , Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Designpolitie
Your Browser Sent A Request That This Server Could Not Understand, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Koen Taselaar
Video for Join Us by They Might Be Giants, New York, USA
Life-Size Paper Monster Hearse
Paul Sahre
Comedy Carpet, Blackpool
Gordon Young and Why Not Associates
PRODUCT
Ascent, London, UK
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
A-frame and Corbs
Ron Arad
Botanica, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Studio Formafantasma
Carbon Black Wheelchair
Andrew Slorance
Defibtech Lifeline VIEWTM Automated External Defibrillator (AED), LLC Guilford, USA
Defibtech
Heracleum, Schiedam, Netherlands
Studio Bertjan Pot
Hövding Invisible Cycle Helmet
Hövding
Jawbone JAMBOX, San Francisco, USA
Yves Béhar, Fuseproject
The Learning Thermostat, USA
Nest, Palo Alto
Mine Kafon, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Massoud Hassani
Olympic Torch 2012, London, UK
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
Orb-it
Black and Decker
Shade, London, UK
Simon Heijdens
Solar Sinter, London, UK
Markus Kayser Studio
Thixotrope, London, UK
Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel and Eva Rucki of Troika
TMA-1 Headphones
KIBiSi
Totem, London, UK
Bethan Laura Wood in collaboration with Pietro Viero
White Collection, Finland
Ville Kokkonen
TRANSPORT
787 Dreamliner
Boeing
Autolib' 3000, Paris, France
Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, France
Bike Hanger - Bicycle Storage, New York, USA
Manifesto Architecture
Mia Electric Car
Mia Electric
Re-design for Emergency Ambulance, London, UK
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and Vehicle Design Department, Royal College of Art
T27 Electric Car, Surrey, UK
Gordon Murray Design
Taurus Electro G4
Pipistrel doo Ajdovscina
