Friday 20 April 2012

Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition - Design Museum


The Design Museum’s annual ‘best of’ showcases an eclectic mix of the past year’s most innovative design projects from around the world.  Leading design industry minds have selected work within seven categories; Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport.

Tuesday 24 April will see the announcement of one winning project from the 89 strong long-list.  You can see the full list of nominated works here.

We couldn’t be pinned down to one favourite on our visit to the show, but we did like...


Noma Bar and Outline Editions' Cut It Out project (as seen at Design Event Festival 2011!)


1.3 Chair by Kihyun Kim, made from compressed balsa wood 


 
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum


Comedy Carpet by Gordon Young and Why Not Associates



www.designsoftheyear.com
Face Substitution (in real time!) by Arturo Castro and Kyle McDonald


Hepworth Wakefield by David Chipperfield Architects

You can catch the show until 4 July!