Designs of the Year 2020 nominees include a Tik Tok dance and the CDC's coronavirus render
Among the 74 projects that have been shortlisted for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year awards is Tik Tok's viral Renegade dance, a steak grown from the eater's own cells and a 3D graphic of the coronavirus particle.
The annual awards, organised by London's Design Museum, highlight projects from the last year that have made a real-world impact in the spheres of digital, fashion, graphic and product design as well as transport and architecture.
This year's selected designs are on view in a dedicated exhibition from today until 28 March 2021. They are arranged in chronological order, effectively counting down to the months leading up to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The exhibition starts in January 2019 with Australian studio Jack and Huei proposing Bleached Coral, a more realistic alternative to Pantone's Living Coral, as colour of the year. Above: Jack and Huei proposed Bleached Coral as an alternative colour of the year. Top image: the CDC created a digital render of a coronavirus particle
Rather than attempting to track the progress of the still-unfolding pandemic, the exhibition only charts designs created up until January 2020, when the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled a 3D rendering of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the city of Wuhan set out to erect a 1,000-bed coronavirus hospital in only 10 days.
"[We thought] we should leave the designs of the pandemic to breathe a bit and end the show in January 2020," explained Ma...
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