Author and MoMA curator Paola Antonelli has been awarded this year's London Design Medal, with designer Yinka Ilori receiving the emerging design prize.
Antonelli and Ilori are two of four creatives who will receive medals at the virtual awards ceremony, which takes place online on 14 September as part of London Design Festival 2020, and is supported by SAP.
The Lifetime Achievement Medal will go to British graphic designer Ken Garland, while Dame Ellen MacArthur ? former round-the-world sailor and founder of circular-economy charity Ellen MacArthur Foundation ? will be given the Design Innovation Medal.
The Emerging Design Medal will be awarded to London-based designer Ilori, who is known for his bold and colourful creations that have spanned from a vibrant skate park in France to a colourful railway bridge in south London. The London Design Medal has been awarded to Paola Antonelli
As the most esteemed prize of the four medals, the London Design Medal is awarded to designers who have "distinguished themselves within the industry and demonstrated consistent design excellence".
This year's prize has gone to Antonelli, who is senior curator at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the department of architecture and design, as well as MoMA's founding director of research and development.
Last year, Antonelli curated a major exhibition in Milan called Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, the XXII Triennale di Milano, which explored humankind's fractured relat...