Designs of our Time : 10 Years of Designs of the Year Paperback

This book brings together all the nominations and winners for the Design Museum's annual Designs of the Year Award over the last decade. It is a unique worldwide survey of contemporary design reflecting a period of enormous social and technological change that began with the launch of the iPhone in 2007. In politics we have gone from Shepard Fairey's `Hope' poster for Barack Obama to the Pussyhat protest against Donald Trump. Selected by 205 expert nominators a total of 840 innovative and thought-provoking designs from across the world are featured ranging from the scale of Zaha Hadid's architecture to Harvard's human organs-on-chips project. The designs that have defined this moment in history include Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium the Plumen light bulb Google's self-driving car and many more. This book is divided per the categories for the Designs of the Year award: architecture digital fashion graphics product and transport. Introduced by acclaimed writer editor and director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic the book features all of the Designs of the Year winners over the past decade. show more " Product details Format Paperback | 976 pages Dimensions 119.38 x 165.1 x 53.34mm | 1120g Publication date 20 Aug 2019 Publisher Design Museum Publication City/Country London United Kingdom Language English Illustrations note 840 colour illustrations ISBN10 1872005381 ISBN13 9781872005386 Bestsellers rank 646104