Prince Philip Designers Prize 2011

Among the runners up this year was the co-designer of Anish Kapoor's 'Orbit' for London's 2012 Olympics, Cecil Balmond; environmental and exhibition designer Dinah Casson; and architects Chris Wilkinson OBE and Jim Eyre OBE. Meanwhile, architect Sir David Chipperfield and medical prosthetic designer Saeed Zahedi both received Special Commendations.
With this being the final year of The Duke of Edinburgh's involvement with the Prize, the Design Council marked his long contribution to the promotion of design with two gifts, presented to him at the ceremony. The first, was a hand-drawn certificate featuring a Quentin Blake cartoon of the Prince. The second was a one-off book of original artworks by past winners, nominees and judges, who were asked to produce a sketch illustrating what design means to them.
See more from the certificate and book presented to Prince Philip
Illustrator Quentin Blake
One of twenty lifesize mural images for the Unicorn Theatre for young people, Bermondsey, by Quentin Blake, 2011
’Mother and Child’, one of six panels in the glass façade of the new Angers Maternity Unit, by Quentin Blake
Wrap for the Stanley Building facing St Pancras International, by Quentin Blake, 2007
’You’re Only Young Twice’, by Quentin Blake, 2006
Cover illustration for ’The BFG’, by Quentin Blake, 1982
Architect David Chipperfield, who received a Special Commendation from the judges
The Hepworth Gallery, by Sir David Chipperfield
The Hepworth Gallery interior, by Sir David Chipperfield
America’s Cup Building, by Sir David Chipperfield
Medical prosthetics designer Saeed Zahedi, who also received a Special Commendation
Prosthetic, by Saeed Zahedi
Structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond
Arcelormittal Orbit, by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond, 2012
’Serial’, by Cecil Balmond, 2011
’Marysas’, by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond, 2011
Serpentine Pavilion by Toyo Ito with Cecil Balmond, 2002
Museum of the Penn, by Cecil Balmond, 2009
CCTV Headquarters, by OMA with Cecil Balmond, 2009
Fashion designer Sir Paul Smith
A/W 2011 menswear, by Paul Smith
A/W 2011 womenswear, by Paul Smith
Paul Smith store, Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
CEO of global design and innovation firm IDEO, Tim Brown
Spyfish, by Tim Brown
Environmental and exhibition designer, Dinah Casson
’Crimes Against Humanity’, Imperial War Museum, by Dinah Casson
’The Garden’, Science Museum, by Dinah Casson
Milliner Stephen Jones
Wash ’n’ Go, by Stephen Jones, 1993
Digital design curator and Onedotzero founder Shane Walter
Adventures in Motion Festival, by Shane Walter
Morfism, by Shane Walter
Wilkinson Eyre Architects founders Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre
Gateshead Millenium Bridge, by Wilkison Eyre
Bridge of Aspiration, Royal Ballet School, by Wilkinson Eyre
Nesciobrug, Amsterdam, by Wilkinson Eyre
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