Pokémon Go, IKEA furniture, the Olympic refugee flag and Wolfgang Tillmans’ Remain Campaign; the Design Museum in London announces the contenders for the tenth edition of the Beazley Designs of the Year. The annual exhibition and awards, supported by specialist insurer Beazley, comprises of 62 nominations across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and creatives, the awards showcase some of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.
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Award-winning architectural practice Carmody Groarke has designed the exhibition environment. It takes the shape of a sequence of sculptural cave-like forms, made from a sprayed paper pulp called Soundcel. The assertive materiality of the gallery was a response to the exhibition design brief, which specified a powerful spatial experience that would act as a strong counterpoint to the diversity of the nominated designs. The existing gallery is completely abstracted into a series of amorphous spaces, blending continuously into one another. Rather than using conventional exhibition walls and plinths, the angled and curved spaces are covered entirely in the recycled newspaper material, smothering over the sculpted ledges and recesses that display the work.
- Title:
- Beazley Designs of the Year
- Exhibition dates:
- until 28 January 2018
- 2D design:
- Micha Weidmann Studio
- 3D design:
- Carmody Groarke
- Venue:
- The Design Museum
- Address:
- 224-238 Kensington High Street, London