Collection by Olivia Martin
Contenders for Designs of the Year Announced
The Design Museum in London recently released its 90 nominations for the Designs of the Year across seven categories: architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, products, and transportation. The exhibition will run at the The Design Museum from March 20-July 7 and features the best designs from 2012. From The Shard, Renzo Piano's new addition to the London skyline to costumes from Anna Karenina to Australian cigarette packaging, these designs show that ingenuity is thriving throughout all creative disciplines. Because it is 2013, we felt it was only appropriate to show 13 nominations in the slideshow that follows.
Architecture: Book Mountain, Spijkenisse, the NetherlandsFor optimum browsing, a veritable mountain of bookshelves created by MVRDV houses over a quarter mile of passages through the structure. Perched at the top is a reading room and cafe area with panoramic views through the transparent roof. Photo by Jeroen Musch.
Product: Oigen KitchenwareIn honor of the message generated by the Japan earthquake and tsunami that material affluence is not true wealth in life and Japan’s history of producing simple designs, Japan Creative and Jasper Morrison have created a series of minimalist cast-iron products. Photo by Jasper Morrison Studios.