Designs of the Year

Nominations announced

Nominations have been announced for this years Brit Insurance Design Awards.

2010 SHORTLIST

**ARCHITECTURE**
Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany - Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton and Juan Lucas Young for Sauerbruch Hutton
British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland - Tony Fretton Architects
High Line Park, New York, USA - James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Hutong Bubble 32, Beijing, China - Ma Yansong and Dang Qun, MAD Architects
MAXXI, National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy - Zaha Hadid Architects
Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre Project, Melbourne, Australia - Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Monterrey Housing, Mexico - ELEMENTAL S.A., Chile
Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany - David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects
Ningbo Historic Museum, Ningbo, China - Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Amateur Architecture Studio
Porchdog House Prototype, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA - Marlon Blackwell Architects
Raven Row, London, UK - 6a Architects
TEA, Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Canary Islands, Spain - Herzog & de Meuron
Youl Hwa Dang Book Hall, Paju Book City, South Korea - Architecture Research Unit (ARU), London Metropolitan University with Network in Architecture (NIA), Seoul

**FASHION**
Accessories and Artefacts: Women’s Lives in Paris 1940-1944 Exhibition, France - Curated by the Musee Galliera and the Memorial-Musee, designed by Jean-Jacques Raynaud, graphics by CL Design
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer ‘10 and Spring/Summer ‘10 Catwalk Presentation, France - Alexander McQueen
The Balmain Jacket Spring/Summer ‘10 - Christophe Decarnin
Beth Ditto at Evans, UK - Beth Ditto and Lisa Marie Peacock
Boudicca Spring/Summer ‘10 Real Girl Lookbook, UK - Boudicca
Comme des Garcons Autumn/Winter ‘09, Japan - Designed by Rei Kawakubo
Christopher Kane Spring/Summer ‘09, UK - Christopher Kane
Goggle Jacket ‘989-’009, UK - Aitor Throup for C.P. Company
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, V&A Museum, London, UK - Curated by Stephen Jones and Oriole Cullen
Madeleine Vionnet, Puriste de la Mode Exhibition, Musee Mode et du Textile, Paris, France - Curated by Pamela Golbin, designed by Andree Putman

**FURNITURE**
360′ Work Chair, Germany - Konstantin Grcic
Breathe Furniture, Australia - Helen Kontouris
Carbon Fibre Chair, Japan - Shigeru Ban Architects
Extrusions, UK - Thomas Heatherwick Studio
Grassworks, Netherlands - Jair Straschnow
Houdini Armrest Chair, Germany - Stefan Diez
Palindrome Series, UK - Peter Marigold
Pallet Furniture, UK - Nina Tolstrup, Studiomama
PARCS, UK - PearsonLloyd
Polytopia, Australia - Lucas Chirnside
Repair Project, Lisbon, Portugal - Linda Brothwell
Setu Office Chair, Germany - Studio 7.5

**GRAPHICS**
032c Magazine, Germany - Art Direction by Mike Meire
Altermodern: Tate Triennial Catalogue and Poster Design, UK - M/M (Paris)
Cafe of Equivalent, UK - Kennardphillipps
Corporate Diversity, Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy 1940-1970, Switzerland - NORM, edited by Andres Janser and Barbara Junod
Daily Visual Column for de Volkskrant, Netherlands - Gorilla
It’s Nice That, UK - Alex Bec and Will Hudson in collaboration with Joseph Burrin
PIG 05049, Netherlands - Christien Meindertsma and Julie Joliat
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III, UK - FUEL Design and Publishing
The Happy Hypocrite, UK - A Practice for Everyday Life
The Indian Type Foundry, India - Peter Bilak and Satya Rajpurohit
The Newspaper Club, UK - Ben Terrett
The New Yorker, 2 Nov 2009 Edition, USA - Chris Ware
Trillion Dollar Campaign, Zimbabwe - TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, South Africa for The Zimbabwean Newspaper
Typographic Trees, Crawley Library, UK - Gordon Young and Why Not Associates
Voltaic: Songs from the Volta Tour - M/M (Paris) for Bjork
War Memorial, UK - Harry Pearce for the Science Museum, London
Yes, UK - Farrow Design for the Pet Shop Boys

**INTERACTIVE**
BBC iPlayer, UK - BBC
Bloom, UK - Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, France - Evan Roth
Kindle 2, USA - Amazon.com
L-E-D-LED-L-ED, Japan - Dilight
onedotzero Festival Identity, UK - Karsten Schmidt and wieden + kennedy London
OpenFrameworks, USA - Zach Lieberman, Theodore Watson, Arturo Castro and the OF community
Pachube, UK - Usman Haque, Sam Mulube and Christopher Burman
Panda Eyes, UK - Jason Bruges Studio for WWF
The EyeWriter, USA - Developed by members of Free Art and Technology (F.A.T), openFrameworks, Graffiti Research Lab,The Ebeling Group and Tony Quan
The Incidental, Milan and London Design Festival, Italy and UK - Concept and creative direction by Daniel Charny, From Now On
YCN Library, UK - Young Creative Network

**PRODUCT**
Beehaus, UK - Omlet
Blown-fabric lanterns, Japan - Nendo
CASE Abyss, Norway - Abyssus Marine Services for SeaBed technologies
Clouds, Denmark - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat
Design and Democracy: Blanke Ark, Norway - Blueroom, Innovativoli and KADABRA
Design Bugs Out Commode, UK - Designed by PearsonLloyd
Folding Plug, UK - Min-Kyu Choi
Hope Chandelier, Italy - Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto for Luceplan
Kyoto Box, Kenya - Jon Bohmer of Kyoto
L’Eau d’Issey ETTORE SOTTSASS Edition, France - Issey Miyake
PACT Underwear, USA - Yves Behar
PlantLock, UK - Front Yard Company
Real Time, Netherlands - Maarten Bass
Samsung N310 Mini Notebook, Japan - Naoto Fukasawa
Ski Helmet for Girls, Norway - Per Finne Industrial Design for Kari Traa
Soma, Tel Aviv, Israel - Ayala Serfaty
Sugru, UK - Jane ni Dhulchaointigh
The Idea of a Tree, Austria - Katharina Mischer & Thomas Traxler
The Story of Stuff, USA - Annie Leonard
Worldmade Sport Wheelchair, UK - David Constantine

**TRANSPORT**
GINA Light Visionary Model, Germany - BMW
E430 Electric Aircraft, China - Yuneec International
Gocycle, UK - Karbon Kinetics Ltd.
Honda EV-N Concept, Japan - Kanna Sumiyoshi
Land Glider, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Mission One Superbike, USA - Yves Behar for Mission Motors
Urbikes, Fourth Generation Urban Bicycle, Spain - Eduard Sentis