Beazley Designs of the Year 2019
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Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 by Beatrice Galilee
The second volume in the Beazley Designs of the Year catalogue series, offering a snapshot of the most exciting things happening in design today. Now in its twelfth year, the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year award and exhibition showcase the most innovative, relevant and thought-provoking projects in contemporary design. From the first iPhone to Zaha Hadid’s final building, the nominations for the award have spanned the fields of architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. Introduced by Deyan Sudjic and Beatrice Galilee, this illustrated book brings together all the nominated designs for 2019, along with the reasons for their selection by an international group of design experts, practitioners and critics. It is the definitive record of the year in design. Past nominees and winners include: Zaha Hadid, Gucci, SpaceX, Nike, Foster + Partners, Shepard Fairey, Comme des Garçons, Apple, OMA, Barber & Osgerby, Jasper Morrison, Thomas Heatherwick, Kanye West and David Adjaye. This year’s exhibition runs from 18 September 2019 to 15 January 2020.
Beatrice Galilee is a New York-based independent writer, organiser of events and exhibitions, and a researcher of practices and positions in contemporary architecture and design. She is co-founder and creative director of The World Around, a new platform for critical architectural discourse. Between 2014-2019 she was the first curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beatrice has conceived and organised exhibitions in Shenzhen, Gwangju, Lisbon, Milan, Ordos, Istanbul, London and New York.
Maria McLintock is a writer, curator and lecturer based in London. She is Assistant Curator at the Design Museum, where she co-developed the shows Designers in Residence (2018) and David Adjaye: Making Memory (2018). She also co-runs a research project called System of Systems that explores technology in the European asylum-seeking process, and teaches Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick.
Deyan Sudjic is the director of the Design Museum in London. He was previously editor of Domus magazine, and founding editor of Blueprint magazine. His portfolio of publications includes The Language of Cities (2017), Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things (2015) and B is for Bauhaus (2014), amongst others. He was made an OBE in 2000.
Maria McLintock is a writer, curator and lecturer based in London. She is Assistant Curator at the Design Museum, where she co-developed the shows Designers in Residence (2018) and David Adjaye: Making Memory (2018). She also co-runs a research project called System of Systems that explores technology in the European asylum-seeking process, and teaches Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick.
Deyan Sudjic is the director of the Design Museum in London. He was previously editor of Domus magazine, and founding editor of Blueprint magazine. His portfolio of publications includes The Language of Cities (2017), Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things (2015) and B is for Bauhaus (2014), amongst others. He was made an OBE in 2000.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781872005447 |
| ISBN 10 | 1872005446 |
| Title | Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 |
| Author | Beatrice Galilee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Design Museum |
| Year published | 2019-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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