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The Design Museum opens 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition
The year’s most innovative designs go on view at the Design Museum for the 11th edition of the Beazley Designs of the Year, opening during London Design Festival for the first time. The mammoth shortlist of 87 nominees has been announced today and is split into categories of fashion, graphics, architecture, product, digital and transport. From Thomas Heatherwick’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa and the sets of Blade Runner 2049 by Territory Studio, to Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi and Studio Drift’s drones, the shortlist gives a dynamic overview of the design climate of today. Sustainability has been honoured throughout with many impressive eco-friendly projects including the first plastic-free supermarket aisle, an emission-free bike and Formafantasma’s recycled e-waste furniture. Plus, pioneering medical equipment is included from a hand-powered centrifuge to self-healing e-skin. This year’s exhibition has been curated by Aric Chen of M+ museum in Hong Kong, and the winner will be announced on 15 November. For now, delve into the exhibition and explore the inspiring shortlist below...
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Carsten Höller gives a Mexican museum a fresh perspective
The art trickster’s new installation at Museo Tamayo is guaranteed to keep you in suspended animation
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Hot stones: the Noguchi Museum stages its first group exhibition alongside Isamu Noguchi's work
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Gavin Turk lights up The Bowes Museum in Durham with a new exhibition of neon artworks
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Plain space: inside John Pawson's gracefully reductivist world
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Charting the unique make-up of Japanese architecture
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Amsterdam's Foam museum stages a compelling line up of photography exhibitions from Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs to Kaveh Golestan
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Design Awards 2016: Best Cultural Draw – National Museum of African-American History and Culture
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Design Awards 2016: Best Building Site – Museum of Image and Sound
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A designer's universe: Vitra opens first Alexander Girard retrospective
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Herzog & de Meuron gifts collection of architectural sketches and models to MoMA
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Fotografiska breathes life into historic New York landmark
The Swedish photography museum’s first global outpost is taking shape in the former Church Missions House
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Machine age: a new show explores the blurring boundaries between humans and robots
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Juergen Teller captures football fans as World Cup frenzy reaches fever pitch
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Carlo Scarpa’s Venetian glassware for Venini goes on show at the Met in New York
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China Through the Looking Glass: celebrating cultural interplay at the Met
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The Bauhaus Archive Museum reveals its first corporate identity
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Alec Soth’s intoxicating photographic chronicles of Middle America
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Heatherwick Studio provides insight into creative process at LA’s Hammer Museum
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How the art of Burning Man ignited a cultural movement beyond the desert
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Architectural drawing celebrated with an annual prize at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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Maths rebranded: London’s Science Museum opens Zaha Hadid-designed gallery
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’In Reverse’ by Ron Arad at Design Museum Holon, Israel
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’So Far, So Goude’: Jean Paul Goude retrospective arrives in Milan
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A new Tokyo museum designed by Kume Sekkei brings us closer to the art of Yayoi Kusama
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Campana Brothers look back on 35 years of revolutionary design
On view at modernist Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, ‘Campana Brothers – 35 Revolutions’ is a retrospective of the Brazilian designers’ impactful oeuvre
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Tracing the radical evolution of domestic interior design
Vitra Design Museum presents ‘Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors,’ a major exhibition that celebrates the power of interior design in the last century
