Design Museum reveals 2016 Beazley Designs of the Year nominees

The Designs of the Year Award always presents a flurry of memorable projects, from Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center to human organs-on-chips to an ad campaign promoting the beauty of imperfect fruits and veggies — among hundreds of worthy nominees. Established by London's Design Museum, the slightly renamed Beazley Designs of the Year Award celebrates the most innovative global design in Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphic, Product and Transport from the last 12 months.

Back for its ninth installment, this year's shortlist has more than 70 fascinating nominated designs. The Architecture category features Bjarke Ingels' Via 57 West ‘courtscraper’ in New York, MAD Architects’ stunning Harbin Opera House, Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Switch House, and the well-known Prada Foundation in Milan by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, among others. Some nominees in the other categories include a drinkable book, the redesigned Norwegian passport, MUJI kitchen appliance, and the last album cover of the late David Bowie. 

Category winners will be announced and then one overall winner will be crowned the Beazley Designs of the Year awardee on January 26, 2017. Don't forget that the Design Museum will host the yearly nominees exhibition starting November 24 through February 19, 2017.

Check out the full shortlist below, and some photos of the nominees.

ARCHITECTURE

• Arena for Learning, UTEC, Lima, Peru. Designers: Grafton Architects
• Better Shelter. Designers: Johan Karlsson, Founder & Interim MD; Dennis Kanter, Designer; Christian Gustafsson, Industrial Designer; John van Leer, Engineer and Industrial Designer; Tim de Haas, Head of Technology; IKEA Foundation, Partner; UNHCR, Partner
• Design That Saves Lives. Designers: Clients: Inditex; Bangladesh Accord For Fire & Building Safety; International Labour Organisation; Arup Team - Project Leaders: Rory McGowan, George Faller, Aidan Madden
• Dreamland Margate. Designers: From HemingwayDesign - Wayne Hemingway, Gerardine Hemingway, Jack Hemingway, Kate Costigan, Megan Sadler; Architects - Guy Holloway and Ray Hole Architects
• Fondazione Prada. Designers: OMA
• Granby Workshop. Designers: Assemble
• Harbin Opera House. Designers: MAD Architects
• Nida house in Navidad (Chile). Designers: Mauricio Pezo, Principal Architect; Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Principal Architect; Diego Perez, Collaborator Architect; Carlos Atala, Client; Ricardo Ballesta, Builder
• SL11024. Designers: Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA (Principal-In-Charge), Donnie Schmidt (PM), Ian Dickenson, Abel Garcia Damian LeMons, Lilit Ustayan, Chris Faulhammer; Consultants: Mia Lehrer + Associates (Landscape), KHR Associates (Civil), Edmond Babayan & Associates (Structural), Sullivan Partnership (MP Engineer), Nikolakapulos & Associates (Electrical); Client: Phoenix Property Company
• Sustainable Housing. Designers: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
• The Green, Nunhead. Designers: AOC; Client: Southwark Council
• Tate Modern Switch House. Designers: Herzog & de Meuron
• VIA 57 West. Designers: BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

DIGITAL

• Casa Jasmina. Designers: Bruce Sterling and Massimo Banzi: Curators; Lorenzo Romagnoli: Project manager and interaction designer; Alessandro Squatrito: community manager and product designer
• In the Eyes of the Animal. Designers: Marshmallow Laser Feast
• MTV for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Designers: MTV
• Moth Generator. Designers: Katie Rose Pipkin and Loren Schmidt
• OpenSurgery. Designers: OpenSurgery - a graduation project at the Design Interactions department of the Royal College of Art in 2015. Initial concept originated from the Healthcare Futures Workshop at KYOTO Design Lab (D-Lab) at the Kyoto Institute for Technology in 2014.
• phonvert. Designers: Tomo Kihara / Keisuke Shiro / Kosuke Takahashi / Toshinari Takahashi / Nagomu Sugimoto
• Precious Plastic. Designers: Dave Hakkens
• Refugee Republic. Designers: Jan Rothuizen, Martijn van Tol Concept, Dirk-Jan Visser, Aart Jan van der Linden, Yaniv Wolf, Christiaan de Rooij, Bonno Lange, Joost Wierenga, Thijs Papôt
• SH:24. Designers: Gillian Holdsworth, Chris Howroyd, Mollie Courtenay, Glyn Parry, Paula Baraitser, Michael Brady and Anatole Menon Johansson, Sarah Cox, Leanne Ford, Adam Whittingham, Anders Fisher and Richard Vickerstaff
• This War of Mine. Designers: Przemysław Marszał, Michał Drozdowski
• Unmade. Designers: Ben Alun-Jones, Hal Watts, Kirsty Emery

FASHION

• Agi and Sam AW15. Designers: Agi and Sam
• Craig Green Spring/Summer 2015. Designers: Craig Green
• Children vs. Fashion. Designers: A group of 8-year-old kids from CEIP La Rioja School, Madrid, Spain
• Richard Malone Spring/Summer 2016. Designers: Richard Malone
• Colección 7. Designers: YAKAMPOT

GRAPHICS

• Cuyperspussagi Tile Mural Central Station Amsterdam. Designers: Irma Boon
• GRUPA. Designers: GRUPA
• The Norwegian Landscape. Designers: Neue Design Studio
• ★ (Blackstar). Designers: Jonathan Barnbrook
• Almadía book covers design. Designers: Alejandro Magallanes
• Bottom Ash Observatory. Designers: Christien Meindertsma, Mathijs Labadie, Thomas Eyck
• Channel 4 rebrand. Designers: Channel 4, DBLG and Brody Associates
• Dear Data. Designers: Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
• Dikke Van Dale dictionary of the Dutch language. Designers: Studio Joost Grootens
• First Aid Kit for Refugees & NGOs. Designers: Idea & Design - Erwin K. Bauer, Anne Hofmann, Dasha Zaichanka, Katharina Hölzl, Miriam S. Koller; Cooperations & Partners: Red Cross Vienna, Caritas, Medical Aid for Refugees, New Here, EOOS design / Places for People at Biennale di Venezia 2016, Urbanize Festival ICC Berlin, Implementation all across Europe
• Hello Ruby - the world's most whimsical way to learn about programming, computers & technology. Designers: Linda Liukas and Jemina Lehmuskoski
• P98a Paper #01 & #02. Designers: Susanna Dulkinys, Erik Spiekermann and Ferdinand Ulrich
• Shot on iPhone: World Gallery. Designers: Apple and TBWA/Media Arts Lab
• We Listen. Designers: MullenLowe

PRODUCT

• 2016/ collection Scholten & Baijings. Designers: Designers: Stefan Scholten & Carole Baijings; Pottery by Hataman Touen
• Adaptive Manufacturing. Designers: Olivier van Herpt and Sander Wassink
• Adidas x Parley running shoe. Designers: adidas sustainability team, adidas design team - Alexander Taylor, Parley for the Oceans, Sea Shepherd
• Amazon Echo. Designers: Amazon
• Design Museum Dharavi. Designers: Amanda Pinatih and Jorge Mañes Rubio
• Drinkable Book. Designers: Senior designer - Brian Gartside; Graphic designer - Aaron Stephenson; Chemist - Dr. Theresa Dankovich, Ph.D.
• île / w153. Designers: Inga Sempé
• Joto. Designers: Those - Jim Rhodes (Co-founder & Designer); Jamie Wieck (CoFounder & Designer); Barney Mason (Co-founder & Product Designer); Carmen Domingo (Design & Comms); Guy Moorhouse (UI/UX)
• Kodak Super 8 Camera. Designers: Yves Behar - Principal Designer, fuseproject; Ilgu Cha - Designer, fuseproject; Sarah Neurnberger - Designer, fuseproject; Steven Overman – CMO, Kodak; Danielle Atkins – VP of Brand and Creative, Kodak
• LEGO® City Fun in the park – City People Pack. Designers: LEGO
• Mono-Lights. Designers: OS ∆ OOS

PRODUCT (cont'd)

• MUJI kitchen appliance. Designers: Naoto Fukasawa
• O&G Studio. Designers: Jonathan Glatt and Sara Ossana
• Post/Biotics. Designers: Vidhi Mehta
• Space Cup. Designers: Mark Weislogel: Innovator (IRPI LLC/Portland State University); Andrew Wollman: Designer (IRPI LLC); John Graf: Co-Investigator (NASA Johnson Space Center); Donald Pettit: NASA Astronaut Innovator (NASA Johnson Space Center); Ryan Jenson: Sponsor (IRPI LLC)
• Species II. Designers: Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard
• The BBC micro:bit. Designers: BBC, Technology Will Save Us, ARM, element14, Freescale, Barclays, Lancaster University, Microsoft, Nordic Semiconductor, Samsung, ScienceScope, The Wellcome Trust
• The Smog Free Project. Designers: Daan Roosegaarde
• Tokyo Tribal. Designers: Nendo
• WITT Ltd. Uniquely Harvesting Renewable Energy From All 6 Degrees Of Motion. Designers: WITT Limited

TRANSPORT

• BeeLine - smart navigation for bikes. Designers: Mark Jenner (co-founder) Tom Putnam (co-founder) Map Project Office (design partner)
• Gogoro Smartscooter and GoStation. Designers: Horace Luke, co-founder, CEO and lead designer, Gogoro
• Lumos - A Next Generation Bicycle Helmet with Integrated Lights, Brake, and Turn Signals. Designers: Eu-wen Ding - Co-Founder & CEO, Jeff Haoran Chen - CoFounder & CTO
• OKO e-bike. Designers: Lars Larsen, Bjarke Ingels and Jens Martin Skibsted

Find out more about the nominees here.