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DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013

CATEGORY WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Official logo (Courtesy of The Design Museum)

LONDON, UK - The Design Museum announces the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months. The overall winner for the Design of The Year 2013 will be announced on Wednesday 16 April at an awards evening held at The Angler, South Place Hotel, London.

The seven category winners include GOV.UK, a new British government website which promises to revolutionise governmental online communications, bringing together different government websites into one single site making it a much easier and user friendly service. Other winners include the renovation and reimagining of a faded 1960s tower block in Paris, a landmark documentary about a fashion icon Diana Vreeland, a reinvention of the wheel in the form of a unique folding wheel which can be applied to bicycles and wheelchairs and a chair constructed using the latest computer technology.

DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL - Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland

The Seven Category winners are:

Architecture: TOUR BOIS-LE-PRTRE, PARIS - Designed by Fredric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Digital: GOV.UK WEBSITE - Designed by Government Digital Service
Fashion: DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL - Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Furniture: MEDICI CHAIR - Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi
Graphics: VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IDENTITY - Designed by John Morgan Studio
Products: KIT YAMOYO - Designed by ColaLife and PI Global
Transport: MORPH FOLDING WHEEL - Designed by Vitamins for Maddak Inc.

MEDICI CHAIR - Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi

Designs of the Year is the Design Museums authoritative review of the most innovative, forward-thinking and culturally relevant projects from the past twelve months. The work selected demonstrates the many ways in which design can transform our physical and cultural landscape. - commented Pete Collard, Curator of Designs of the Year.

The seven winning designs will now compete for the overall Design of the Year 2013, to be announced on 16 April. The winning entries, along with all the shortlisted designs are on show at the Design Museum until 7 July.

VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IDENTITY - Designed by John Morgan Studio

About the Design Museum

The Design Museum is the worlds leading museum devoted to architecture and industrial design. Founded in 1989 and currently located in Shad Thames, its work encompasses all elements of design, including product design, graphic design, and fashion. For the past 22 years, the museum has hosted exhibitions showcasing some of the most important pioneers of design including, Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, and Dieter Rams.

The Design Museum plans to relocate from its current home at Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute building, in Kensington, West London. The project is expected to be completed by 2015. Leading designer John Pawson will convert the interior of the Commonwealth Institute building to create a new home for the Design Museum giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions, showcase its world class collection and extend its learning programme. For more information please visit: designmuseum.org

Source: Design Museum

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