The fourth exhibition of the Brit Insurance Design Awards celebrates the best of international design in the fields of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.
The winners were chosen from a selection of themes including graffiti art, recycled electrical appliances made into chairs, LCD screens and the iPad, which were grouped into: city, play, learn, home and share.
The UK took the award for Product design with Plumen 001 by Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson. Mike McCue and Evan Doll of the USA received an award for their Interactive Flipboard. Forsman and Bodenfors for IKEA, Sweden, Graphics. The best Furniture design was won by Branca of Italy. Japan’s +J Autumn’10 by Jil Sander for Uniqlo, Fashion. The award for Architecture went to KARO Architekten of Germany for their design of the Open Air Library.
The trophy for the best of the winners was designed this year by Ross Lovegrove, and the result will be announced by founder Director of the museum, Stephen Bayley. Examples of products which have won in the past are the Folding Plug by RCA graduate, Min-Kyo-Choi, which will be on sale later this year and the One Laptop per Child project by Yves Behar of Fuseproject.
