Design Museum, London, has announced the 76 nominees for the 12th Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards.This year’s nominees include a meme-inspired dress collection by Viktor & Rolf, a data generated proxy address system created to reduce homelessness, the world’s first hands-free breast pump, Adidas’s collaboration with designer Ji Won Choi, as worn by Beyonce, food sharing app OLIO and The Shed’s extendable building in New York.A major theme in this year’s awards is accessible designs as seen in IKEA’s ThisAbles collection, Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive clothing range, and Chromat’s AW19 fashion collection.This year’s nominees can be viewed as the most international and gender-balanced list of contenders to date. The annual awards and exhibition comprises 76 nominations across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of international designers, curators, critics and — for the first time — the general public, the awards showcase the most impactful products and concepts from designers around the world.The exhibition features sketches, models, prototypes, videos and photography for all the nominations and provides a summary of the latest design trends.This year’s highlights include in the fashion category, vegan sliders from Rombaut, streetwear for Reebok, created by Pyer Moss, and Adidas’ Korean inspired Originals Collection, worn by Beyonce. Graphic nominee MOLD by LinYee Yuan has explored the future of food through a new online platform and magazine that looks at how designers are addressing multiple food crises by working with food design and technology firms. Product nominee CATCH was created to increase early detection of the HIV virus — with a low-cost and pocket-sized device that allows users to self-test for HIV in the privacy of their own home. The transport section highlights designs that improve local services with the GACHA Self-Driving Shuttle Bus designed by MUJI in collaboration with Finnish company Sensible 4, promoting easy autonomous access to public transport in all weather.The focus on accessible design continues in the digital category with wearable virtual assistant AlterEgo by MIT Media Lab. It silently detects electrical impulses from the skin surface and transmits these to the internal device — assisting those unable to speak out loud to communicate without needing to open their mouth.The architecture category features innovations such as the ProxyAddress by emerging British designer Chris Hildrey, which allows those facing homelessness to access support services by generating each user a consistent ‘proxy address.’A winner will be selected in each category and one overall winner will be announced on Thursday, November 21, 2019. Previous winners include Forensic Architecture for their Counter Investigations Exhibition and Sir David Adjaye OBE for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., among others.Beazley Designs of the Year is on view through February 9, 2020, at the Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 6AG, United Kingdom.For details, visit: https://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/design-museum/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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