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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Justin McGuirk

Designs of the Year – in pictures

Designs of The Year: Seomyeon subway station
Tesco Virtual Store in Seomyeon subway in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Home plus
These touchscreen supermarket shelves offer online shopping on an underground platform
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: jeroen van Oirschot
Mine Kafon, a landmine clearance device by Massoud Hassani
This wind-controlled mine clearer is designed to roll over a limited territory detonating mines. Still in trial, it's not 100% effective but its GPS tracker reveals the route it has cleared
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: ambulance design
A mockup of the ambulance design by Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
A long-overdue redesign, with a more spacious, easier-to-clean interior for treating patients in situ, not just transporting them to the hospital
Photograph: Tim Saunders/Design Museum
Designs of The Year: solar panel
Solar Sinter designed by Markus Kayser Studio
This 3D printer uses a concentrated beam of sunlight to turn sand into glass objects
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: Guangzhou Opera House
Guangzhou Opera House, China, by Zaha Hadid Architects
More glitzy abstraction from the London architect, this time for a manufacturing city in the Pearl River Delta
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: Folly for a flyover
Folly for a Flyover designed by Assemble, Hackney Wick, London
Wedged under two flyovers in east London, this wooden folly became a cultural hotspot in no man's land last summer
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: SILO table
Not So Expanded Polystyrene (NSEPS) Table by Silo
Polystyrene is more commonly known for its use as disposable packaging, but if you don't expand it fully it makes solid, characterful furniture
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: folders
AA Files magazine designed by John Morgan Studio
A conservative but beautifully dignified design for this architecture journal
Photograph: Michael Harvey/Design Museum
Designs of The Year: artek white bright lights
White Collection range of daylight therapy lights designed and produced by Artek
Designed in Finland, where there is limited daylight in winter, these are more like windows than lamps, with the frames taking a backseat to the quality of light itself
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: bouroullec chair
Osso chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, produced by Mattiazzi
This chair, made of four distinct pieces, combines computer-cutting machinery and traditional craftsmanship
Photograph: Design Museum
Designs of The Year: wheelchair
Carbon Black wheelchair designed by Andrew Slorance and produced by British manufacturer I Imagine
This wheelchair, made of super-lightweight carbon fibre, is designed to make users not feel like they're sitting in a medical device
Photograph: Richard Foster/Design Museum
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