The Design Museum in London announced today the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year, which are awarded to the best international design output across seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. The 90 nominations will be on display in an exhibition at the Design Museum between 20 March and 7 July 2013 and the winners will be announced in April.
The shortlist for the 2013 Designs of the Year is as follows:
Architecture
- La Tour Bois-Le-Pretre, Paris – Designed by Druot, Lacaton and Vassal
- Clapham Library, London – Designed by Studio Egret West
- MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Cleveland – Designed by Farshid Moussavi Architects
- Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast – Designed by Hackett Hall McKnight
- A Room For London – Designed by David Kohn Architects in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner
- Kukje Art Center, Seoul – Designed by SO-IL
- Ikea Disobedients – Designed by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos
- Book Mountain, Spijkenisse – Designed by MVRDV
- The Shard, London – Designed by Renzo Piano
- Thalia Theatre, Lisbon – Designed by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos & Barbas Lopes Arquitectos
- Astley Castle, Warwickshire – Designed by Witherford Watson Mann
- Museum Of Innocence, Istanbul – Designed by Orhan Pamuk with Ihsan Bilgin, Cem Yucel and Gregor Sunder Plassmann
- Home For All – Designed by Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto, Kumiko Inui and Toyo Ito
- T-Site, Tokyo – Designed by Klein Dytham
- Galaxy Soho, Beijing – Designed by Zaha Hadid
- Superkilen, Nørrebro – Designed by BIG, TOPOTEK1 and Superflex
- Four Freedoms Park, New York – Designed by Louis Kahn
Digital
- Rain Room – Designed by Random International
- Superstitious Fund Project – Designed by Shing Tat Chung
- Raspberry Pi Computer – Designed by Eben Upton
- English Hedgerow Plate – Designed by Andrew Tanner and Unanico for Royal Winton
- Digital Postcard And Player – Designed by Uniform
- Windows Phone 8 – Designed by Microsoft
- Gov.uk Website – Designed by Government Digital Service
- Zombies, Run! App – Designed by Six to Start
- Free Universal Construction Kit – Designed by Free Art and Technology Lab
- Wind Map – Designed by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Bertini Viegas
- Candles In The Wind – Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer for Ingo Maurer
- Chirp – Designed by Patrick Bergel
- Dashilar App – Designed by Nippon Design Centre Inc.
- City Tracking pt2 – Designed by Stamen
- Light Field Camera – Designed by Lytro
Fashion
- Anna Karenina Costumes – Designed by Jacqueline Durran
- A/W12 Womenswear – Designed by Giles Deacon
- Louis Vuitton Collection – Designed by Yayoi Kusama
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel – Directed by Lisa Immordino
- I Want Muscle – Directed by Elisha Smith-Leverock
- A/W12 Collection – Designed by Craig Green
- Commes De Garcons RTW A/W12 – Designed by Rei Kawakubo
- Christian Dior RTW S/S13 – Designed by Raf Simons
- Prada S/S12 RTW Collection – Designed by Miuccia Prada
- Proenza Schouler A/W12 Collection – Designed by Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough
Furniture
- The Sea Chair – Designed by Studio Swine & Kieren Jones
- Liquid Glacial Table – Designed by Zaha Hadid
- A-Collection – Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bourellec for Hay
- Gravity Stool – Designed by Jolan Van Der Wiel
- Well Proven Chair – Designed by James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel
- Tié Paper Chair – Designed by Pinwu
- 100 Chairs – Designed by Marni
- Medici Chair – Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi
- Re-Imagined Chairs – Designed by Studiomama (Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama)
- Engineering Temporality – Designed by Studio Markunpoika
- Corniches – Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra
- Future Primitives – Designed by Muller Van Severen
Graphics
- Zumtobel Annual Report – Designed by Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor
- Bauhaus: Art As Life Exhibition – Designed by A Practice For Everyday Life
- Strelka Identity – Designed by OK:RM
- Occupied Times Of London – Designed by Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis
- The Gentlewoman #6 – Designed by Veronica Ditting
- Austria Solar Annual Report – Designed by Serviceplan
- Rijksmuseum Identity – Designed by Irma Boom
- Adam Thirwell: Kapow! – Designed by Studio Frith
- Organic – Designed by Kapitza
- Doc Lisboa ’12 – Designed by Pedro Nora
- Ralph Ellison Collection – Designed by Cordon Webb
- Venice Architecture Biennale Identity – Designed by John Morgan
- Dekho: Conversations On Design In India – Designed by CoDesign
- Made In Los Angeles: Work By Colby Poster Printing Co. – Designed by Anthony Burrill
- Australian Cigarette Packaging – Commissioned by Australian Government Department for Health and Ageing
Product
- Olympic Cauldron – Designed by Heatherwick Studio
- Bang & Olufsen ‘Beolit 12’ – Designed by Cecile Manz
- Liquiglide Ketchup Bottle – Designed by Dave Smith/Varanasi Research Group MIT
- Colour Porcelain – Designed by Scholten & Baijings/1616 Arita Japan
- E-Source – Designed by Hal Watts
- Little Printer – Designed by Berg
- Switch Collection – Designed by Inga Sempe for Legrand
- Papa Foxtrot Toys – Designed by PostlerFerguson
- Child Vision Glasses – Designed by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World
- W127 Lamp – Designed by Dirk Winkel
- Plug Lamp – Designed by Form Us With Love
- Replicator 2 – Designed by MakerBot
- Magic Arms – Designed by duPont Hospital for Children
- Kiosk 2.0 – Designed by Unfold Studio
- Oigen Kitchenware – Designed by Jasper Morrison/Japan Creative
- Tekio – Designed by Anthony Dickens
- Little Sun – Designed by Olafur Eliasson
- colalife – Designed by Simon Berry
- Federic Malle Travel Sprays – Designed by Pierre Hardy
- Faceture Vases – Designed by Phil Cuttance
- Surface Tension Lamp – Designed by Front
- Flyknit Trainers – Designed by Nike
Transport
- Morph Folding Wheel – Designed by Vitamins Design/Maddak Inc.
- Air Access Seat – Designed by Priestmangoode
- i3 Concept Car – Designed by BMW
- Mando Footloose Chainless Bicycle – Designed by Mark Sanders
- N-One – Designed by Honda
- Exhibition Road – Designed by Dixon Jones/ The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Olympics Wayfaring – Designed by TfL/JEDCO/LOCOG
