OLPC designer is up for British design award

by Giovanni Glass March 15, 2008 5:38 pm Permalink
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Source: designmuseum, designboom, Awards page

The Design Museum in London, Britain currently has a Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition. The exhibition showcases 100 designs nominated by curators, designers and critics. The 100 designs are broken into seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. The best of each category will be awarded category winner and is eligible for the overall Brit Insurance Design Award. Competition is fierce. On March 11, the category winners were announced. In the product category, the One Laptop Per Child was announced the winner. The OLPC laptop was designed by Yves Béhar of Fuseproject. On March 18, the final winner will be announced.

Category winners

Architecture: National Stadium: the Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing, China, architect: Herzog & de Meuron, client: National Stadium Co. Ltd Beijing, China
Fashion: Airborne Autumn/Winter 07, design by Hussein Chalayan
Furniture: 100 Chairs in 100 Days, design and manufacture by Martino Gamper
Graphics: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Creative director Paul Buckley and co art director Helen Yentus, design by various artists for Penguin Group USA
Interactive: Burble London, design by Haque Design + Research Ltd, with Seth Garlock and Rolf Pixley
Product: One Laptop Per Child, design by Yves Béhar of Fuseproject, for OLPC & Quanta Computer Inc.
Transport: Mex-x, wheelchair for children by Meyra- Ortopedia Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year runs until April 27 at the Design Museum, London SE1

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August 25, 2008 8:20 am
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