2019 nominees
Product
Not too long ago, plastics were synonymous with disposability. Alessandro Mendini scathingly remarked in the late 1980s that his fellow designers dreamed of entire homes – an entire world – cast not in gold, but plastic.
The process of rethinking much-used products and challenging material conventions dominates this year’s selection of product designs, which includes the first reinvention of the pregnancy test in over thirty years, a table comprising pressed flowers suspended in black resin, and a series of tiles whose glazes are formed from the volcanic ash of Mount Etna.
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