"Critics Choice" Time Out

Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, "the Oscars of the design world," showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Last year's winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can have at a grass-root level. Which design will triumph in 2010? The overall winner will be decided by a jury chaired by Antony Gormley and announced on 16 March.

See all the winners, nominations and comment on the designsoftheyear.com blog.

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2010 SHORTLIST

ARCHITECTURE
Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany - Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton and Juan Lucas Young for Sauerbruch Hutton
British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland - Tony Fretton Architects
High Line Park, New York, USA - James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Hutong Bubble 32, Beijing, China - Ma Yansong and Dang Qun, MAD Architects
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Architecture Award: Monterrey Housing, Mexico - ELEMENTAL, Chile
MAXXI, National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy - Zaha Hadid Architects
Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre Project, Melbourne, Australia - Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany - David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects
Ningbo Historic Museum, Ningbo, China - Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Amateur Architecture Studio
Porchdog House Prototype, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA - Marlon Blackwell Architects
Raven Row, London, UK - 6a Architects
TEA, Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Canary Islands, Spain - Herzog & de Meuron
Youl Hwa Dang Book Hall, Paju Book City, South Korea - Architecture Research Unit (ARU), London Metropolitan University with Network in Architecture (NIA), Seoul

FASHION
Accessories and Artefacts: Women’s Lives in Paris 1940-1944 Exhibition, France - Realised with the Musée Galliera, shown at the Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris- Musée Jean Moulin, Paris. Curated by the Musée Galliera and the Memorial-Musée, designed by Jean-Jacques Raynaud, graphics by CL Design.
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Fashion Award: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer ’10 and Spring/Summer ’10 Catwalk Presentation, Alexander McQueen
Beth Ditto at Evans, UK - Beth Ditto and Lisa Marie Peacock
The Balmain Jacket Spring/Summer ‘10 - Christophe Decarnin
Boudicca Spring/Summer ’10 Real Girl Lookbook, UK - Boudicca
Christopher Kane Spring/Summer ’09, UK - Christopher Kane
Comme des Garçons’ Autumn/Winter ‘09, Japan - Designed by Rei Kawakubo
Goggle Jacket ‘989–‘009, UK - Aitor Throup for C.P. Company
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, V&A Museum, London, UK - Curated by Stephen Jones and Oriole Cullen
Madeleine Vionnet, Puriste de la Mode Exhibition, Musée Mode et du Textile, Paris, France - Curated by Pamela Golbin, designed by Andrée Putman

FURNITURE
360° Work Chair, Germany - Konstantin Grcic
Breathe Furniture, Australia - Helen Kontouris
Carbon Fibre Chair, Japan - Shigeru Ban Architects
Extrusions, UK - Thomas Heatherwick Studio
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Furniture Award: Grassworks, Netherlands - Jair Straschnow
Houdini Armrest Chair, Germany - Stefan Diez
Palindrome Series, UK - Peter Marigold
Pallet Furniture, UK - Nina Tolstrup, Studiomama
PARCS, Austria - PearsonLloyd for Bene
Polytopia, Australia - Lucas Chirnside
Repair Project, Lisbon, Portugal - Linda Brothwell
Setu Office Chair, Germany - Studio 7.5

GRAPHICS
032c Magazine, Germany - Art Direction by Mike Meiré
Altermodern: Tate Triennial Catalogue and Poster Design, UK - M/M (Paris)
Cafe of Equivalent$, UK - Kennardphillipps
Corporate Diversity, Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy 1940-1970, Switzerland - NORM, edited by Andres Janser and Barbara Junod
Daily Visual Column for de Volkskrant, Netherlands - Gorilla
It’s Nice That, UK - Alex Bec and Will Hudson in collaboration with Joseph Burrin
PIG 05049, Netherlands - Written and designed by Christien Meindertsma and co-designed by Julie Joliat
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III, UK - FUEL Design and Publishing
The Happy Hypocrite, UK - A Practice for Everyday Life
The Indian Type Foundry, India - Peter Bilak and Satya Rajpurohit
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Graphics Award: The Newspaper Club, UK - Ben Terrett, Russell Davies and Tom Taylor
The New Yorker, 2 Nov 2009 Edition, USA - Chris Ware
Trillion Dollar Campaign, Zimbabwe - TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, South Africa for The Zimbabwean Newspaper
Typographic Trees, Crawley Library, UK - Gordon Young and Why Not Associates
Voltaic: Songs from the Volta Tour - M/M (Paris) for Björk
War Memorial, UK - Harry Pearce for the Science Museum, London
Yes, UK - Farrow Design for the Pet Shop Boys

INTERACTIVE
BBC iPlayer, UK - BBC
Bloom, UK - Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, France - Evan Roth
Kindle 2, USA - Amazon.com
L-E-D-LED-L-ED, Japan - Dilight
onedotzero Festival Identity, UK - Karsten Schmidt and wieden + kennedy London
OpenFrameworks, USA - Zach Lieberman, Theodore Watson, Arturo Castro and the OF community
Pachube, UK - Usman Haque, Sam Mulube and Christopher Burman
Panda Eyes, UK - Jason Bruges Studio for WWF
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Interactive Award: The EyeWriter, USA - Developed by members of Free Art and Technology (F.A.T), openFrameworks, Graffiti Research Lab,The Ebeling Group and Tony Quan
The Incidental, Milan and London Design Festival, Italy and UK - Concept and creative direction by Daniel Charny, From Now On
YCN Library, UK - Young Creative Network

PRODUCT
Beehaus, UK - Omlet
Blown-fabric lanterns, Japan - Nendo
CASE Abyss, Norway - Abyssus Marine Services for SeaBed Geophysical
Clouds, Denmark - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat
Design and Democracy: Blanke Ark, Norway - Blueroom, Innovativoli and KADABRA
Design Bugs Out Commode, UK - Designed by PearsonLloyd
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Product Award: Folding Plug, UK - Min-Kyu Choi
Hope Chandelier, Italy - Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto for Luceplan
Kyoto Box, Kenya - Jon Bohmer of Kyoto
L’Eau d’Issey ETTORE SOTTSASS Edition, France - Issey Miyake
PACT Underwear, USA - Yves Béhar
PlantLock, UK - Front Yard Company
Real Time, Netherlands - Maarten Bass
Samsung N310 Mini Notebook, Japan - Naoto Fukasawa
Ski Helmet for Girls, Norway - Per Finne Industrial Design for Kari Traa
Soma, Tel Aviv, Israel - Ayala Serfaty
Sugru, UK - Jane ni Dhulchaointigh
The Idea of a Tree, Austria - Katharina Mischer & Thomas Traxler
The Story of Stuff, USA - Annie Leonard
Worldmade Sport Wheelchair, UK - David Constantine

TRANSPORT
GINA Light Visionary Model, Germany - BMW
CATEGORY WINNER - Brit Insurance Transport Award: E430 Electric Aircraft, China - Yuneec International
Gocycle, UK - Karbon Kinetics Ltd.
Honda EV-N Concept, Japan - Kanna Sumiyoshi
Land Glider, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Mission One Superbike, USA - Yves Béhar for Mission Motors
Urbikes, Fourth Generation Urban Bicycle, Spain - Eduard Sentís

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