Dacă vă doriţi să fiţi la curent cu tot ceea ce s-a întâmplat mai bun în 2010 în domeniul designului, nu trebuie să rataţi expoziţia ce se deschide mâine, 16 februarie, la Design Museum din Londra, prezentând nominalizările celei de-a patra ediţii a Brit Insurance Design Awards. Experţi din industria designului au selectat obiecte şi proiecte inovative din întreaga lume (chiar dacă în continuare Europa şi SUA sunt cel mai bine reprezentate), grupându-le pe 7 categorii: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Interactive, Product şi Transport. Diversitatea proiectelor, de la candelabrele Swarovski ale lui Yves Behar la jocul Angry Birds semnat de Rovio Mobile, de la Apple iPad la adăposturile de urgenţă din beton realizate în Wales sau la colecţia de haine Gareth Pugh, chiar dacă imprimă expoziţiei o înfăţişare eclectică, reflectă importanţa şi impactul designului în societatea actuală.
Pe 28 februarie juriul format din Stephen Bayley, Janice Blackburn (curator de artă şi design), Mark Farrow (grafician), Will Self (scriitor), Penny Sparke (Decan la Kingston University), Simon Waterfall (fondator al agenţiei Poke) şi Bill Moggeridge (Director al Coper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York) va anunţa câştigătorii celor 7 secţiuni, iar pe 15 martie, va fi acordat trofeul Brit Insurance Design of the Year, realizat în acest an de cunoscutul Ross Lovegrove.
Iată nominalizările:
Architecture
- 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, USA Robert Wennett // Herzog & de Meuron
- A Forest for a Moon Dazzler, Guanacaste, Costa Rica Benjamin Garcia Saxe
- Balancing Barn, Suffolk, UK MVRDV / Co-architect: Mole Architects / Client: Living Architecture
- Burj Khalif, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Client: EMAAR
- Concrete Canvas Shelters, UK Concrete Canvas (Peter Brewin, William Crawford and Phillip Greer)
- Ladakh Commonwealth Peace Pavilion and Classroom, Tibet Sergio Palleroni / Basic Initiative
- Media-Tic Building, Barcelona Enric Ruiz-Geli / Cloud 9
- Nottingham Contemporary, UK Caruso St John Architects / Client: Nottingham City Council
- Open-Air-Library Magdeburg, Germany Karo Architekten / Architektur+Netzwerk / Client: Landeshaupstadt Magdeburg
- Stonebridge Hillside Hub, Greater London Edward Cullinan Architects / Client: Hyde Housing Association/Hillside Action Trust
- Tape installations, Austria / Croatia Numen / For Use
- UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010, China Thomas Heatherwick Studio
- University of Oxford: Department of Earth Sciences, UK Wilkinson Eyre Architects / Client: University of Oxford
- Vitrahaus – Weil am Rhine, Germany Herzog & de Meuron / Client: Vitra Verwaltungs gmbh
- Void House, Belgium Gon Zifroni in collaboration with Pom-Archi
Fashion
- Comme des Garçons Trading Museum Tokyo, Japan Designed and conceived by Rei Kawakubo
- Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer ’11, UK Designed by Gareth Pugh
- Lanvin Spring/Summer ’11, France Designed by Alber Elbaz
- Margaret Howell Plus Shirt, UK Designed by Kenneth Grange and Margaret Howell
- Melonia Shoe, Sweden Designed by Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf
- Ohne Titel Spring/Summer ’11, USA Designed by Flora Gill and Alexa Adams
- Organic Jewellery Collection, Brazil Designed by Flavia Amadeu
- Tess Giberson Spring/Summer ’11, Shift, USA Designed by Tess Giberson // Carol Bove // Alia Raza
- Uniqlo +J Autumn/Winter’10 Designed by Jil Sander for Uniqlo
Furniture
- Branca, Italy Designed by Industrial Facility, Sam Hecht, Kim Colin, Ippei Matsumoto
- Collec+ors Collection, Australia Designed by Khai Liew // Kirsten Coelho // Gwyn Hanssen Pigott // Bruce Nuske // Prue Venables // Julie Blyfield // Jessica Loughlin
- Drop Table, Italy Designed by Junya Ishigami // Manufactured by Living Divani
- Dune, Austria Designed by Rainer Mutsch // Manufactured by Eternit
- Endless, Netherlands Designed by Dirk Vander Kooij
- Origin Part I: Join, Netherlands Designed by BCXSY in collaboration with Mr Tanaka
- Plytube, UK Designed by Seongyong Lee
- Sayl Task Chair, USA Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject // Manufactured by Herman Miller
- Solo Bench, Brazil Designed by Domingos Totora // Manufactured by Touch
- Spun, Italy Designed by Thomas Heatherwick Studio // Manufactured by Magis
- Thin Black Lines, Japan Designed by Nendo // Exhibited by Phillips de Pury & Company at the Saatchi Gallery, London
- Vigna Chair, Italy Designed by Martino Gamper // Manufactured by Magis
Graphics
- A Love Letter For You, USA Designed by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
- Coalition of the Willing, UK Direction and production by Knife Party // Written by Tim Rayner // Voiceover artist Colin Tierne
- Design Criminals Edible Catalogue, Austria Designed by Andreas Pohancenik
- Four Corners Familiars Series, UK Designed by John Morgan Studio and collaborators
- Homemade is Best, Sweden Designed by Forsman & Bodenfors for Ikea
- Irma Boom: Biography in Books, Netherlands Designed by Irma Boom // Published by Grafsiche Cultuurstichting
- Wonder, Canada Written, illustrated and designed by Marian Bantjes // Published by Thames & Hudson
- London College of Communication Summer Show ’10, UK Designed by Studio Myserscough
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, UK Designed by A Practice For Everyday Life // Published by Visual Editions
- Unit Editions, UK Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy
Interactive
- Angry Birds, Finland Designed by Rovio Mobile
- Cellscope, USA Designed by Professor Daniel Fletcher and the Cellscope Team // Aardman Animation // Wieden + Kennedy // Commissioned by Nokia
- E.chromi, UK Designed by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg // James King // In collaboration with Cambridge University’s Igem Team
- Flipboard, USA Designed by Mike Mccue and Evan Doll
- Guardian Eyewitness app, UK Designed by the Guardian Technology Team (Jonathan Moore, Alastair Dent, Andy Rockie, Martin Redington and Roger Tooth)
- Mimosa, Italy Designed by Jason Bruges Studio for Philips Lumiblade
- Paint, UK Designed by Greyworld for Nokia
- Reactable Mobile, Spain Designed by Reactable Systems
- Rock Band 3, USA Designed by Harmonix Music Systems
- Speed of Light, UK Designed by United Visual Artists // Commissioned by Virgin Media
- The Elements iPad app, USA Designed by Touchpress // Written byTheodore Gray
- The Johnny Cash Project, USA Chris Milk // Aaron Koblin // @radical.media // Rick Rubin // The Cash Estate
- Wallpaper* Custom Covers, UK Designed and developed by Kin // Art direction by Meirion Pritchard // Content by Anthony Burrill, James Joyce, Hort, Kam Tang and Nigel Robinson
- Wired Magazine app, USA Designed and developed by Scott Dadich and Jeremy Clark // Conde Nast Digital
Product
- Act Fire Extinguisher, Norway Designed by Sigrun Vik
- Amplify Chandelier, USA Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject for Swarovski
- Apple iPad, USA Designed by Apple
- Blueware Collection, UK Designed by Studio Glithero
- Contemplating Monolithic Design, Italy Created by Barberosgerby and Sony Design // Exhibition design by Universal Design Studios
- Universal Gown, UK Designed by Ben de Lisi
- Diamant Coffin Series, Denmark Designed by Jacob Jensen Design // Manufactured by Tommerup Kister
- Dyson Air Multiplier Fan, UK Designed by James Dyson
- Freecom CLS Mobile Drive, Belgium // Germany Designed by Sylvain Willenz // Manufactured by Freecom
- Flying Future, Germany Designed by Ingo Maurer
- In-betweening Clock, UK Designed by Hye-Yeon Park
- Intimate Rider, USA Designed by Alan Tholkes
- Leveraged Freedom Chair, USA Designed by Mit Mobility Laboratory
- One Arm Drive System, UK Designed and developed by Mark Owen and Jon Owen // Manufactured by Nomad Wheelchairs Ltd
- Pavegen, UK Designed by Pavegen Systems Ltd
- Playing with Lego® Bricks and Paper, Japan // Denmark Designed by Muji // Lego®
- Plumen 001, UK Concept and design direction: Hulger // Design: Samuel Wilkinson
- Prampack, Norway Designed by Kadabra Produktdesign // Invented by Anne Morkemo // Manufactured by Stokke
- Quartz Series, UK Designed by Max Lamb // Manufactured by J & L Lobmeyr, Austria
- See Better to Learn Better, USA // Mexico Designed by Yves Behar and Fuseproject // In partnership with Augen Optics
- Wall piercing, Italy Designed by Ron Gilad // Manufactured by Flos
- Yii, Taiwan Conceived by National Taiwan Craft Research Institute (NTCRI) and Taiwan Design Center (TDC) // Creative direction by Gijs Bakker
Transport
- Barclays Cycle Hire, UK Serco // Transport for London
- Dezir, France Designed by Laurens van den Acker for Renault
- En-v, USA Designed by General Motors
- Fiat 500 Twinair, Italy Designed and developed by Fiat Style and FPT Fiat Powertrain
- Riversimple, UK Designed by Riversimple
- Vanmoof no 5, Netherlands Designed by Vanmoof
- Yikebike, New Zealand Designed by Grant Ryan
Expoziţia va putea fi vizitată până pe 7 august 2011, iar mai multe detalii puteţi afla pe: designmuseum.org.