Design Museum: the shortlist for the 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year has just been revealed
What a portfolio! Now in its eleventh year, Beazley Designs of the Year is the Design Museum's annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.
Every year since 2008 hundreds of design experts from around the world nominate the most innovative and thought-provoking designs from the past 12 months.
The international awards and exhibition showcase design projects from the previous 12 months, across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Product, Graphics, and Transport.
Design experts, practitioners and academics from across the world are asked by the Design Museum to suggest potential projects, from which the museum has selected 87 for nomination to display in the exhibition.
A specially selected jury will choose a winner for each category and an overall winner – to be announced in November 2018.
From Liron Lavi Turkenich’s Aravrit, the experimental writing system that combines Arabic and Hebrew, Aravrit words consist of an upper half in Arabic merged with its Hebrew equivalent below through the Migrant Journal, the publication which explores the global migration of people, goods, information and nature, questioning the relationship between global systems of flow and notions of territory and space by Offshore Studio (art direction) and Justinien Tribillon (editor) or the clear and simple branding by A Plastic Planet and Made Thought for Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza’s world’s first plastic-free shopping aisle every nominee deserves to be discovered.
Following is the shortlist in the graphic design category
Netherlands Women’s National Football Teamcrest by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for Nike
Oto Nové Swiss interactive poster by Studio Feixen
Trash Isles campaign by Plastic Oceans Foundation with Ladbible
Visual identity for the Czech Railway Infrastructure Association by Studio Marvil
Mushpit #10 women’s magazine by Mushpit with Richard Turley
Save Our Species T-shirt by Lacoste with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Hoarding for the Apple Store, Taipei by Yang Shiyi
Aravrit by Liron Lavi Turkenich
Migrant Journal by Offshore Studio (art direction) and Justinien Tribillon (editor)
Plastic-free aisle, Netherlands by A Plastic Planet and Made Thought for Ekoplaza
Explore how the future is fast becoming the present with newly-developed materials, innovative ways of managing scarce resources, playful designs for all ages and local communities claiming new spaces for themselves here.
Tags/ design, inspiration, fashion, exhibition, visual identity, nike, transport, digital, netherlands, architecture, design museum, migrant journal, justinien tribillon, award, lacoste, product, studio feixen, graphics, taipei, beazley designs of the year, wieden+kennedy amsterdam, netherlands women’s national football team, oto nové swiss, trash isles, plastic oceans foundation, ladbible, czech railway infrastructure association, studio marvil, mushpit, richard turley, save our species, international union for conservation of nature, iucn, hoarding for the apple store, yang shiyi, aravrit, liron lavi turkenich, offshore studio, plastic-free aisle, a plastic planet, made thought, ekoplaza
