Saturday, 4 December 2004 | Levent OZLER
Designer of The Year
£25,000 national design prize
5 March to 19 June 2005
Who will win the £25,000 prize awarded by the Design Museum to the
Designer of the Year? The public can judge the work of the four shortlisted
designers and vote for their favourite to win at an exhibition of the nominees’
work at the Design Museum from 5 March to 19 June 2005.
Covering every area of design – from cars and graphics, to furniture and
technology – the £25,000 Designer of the Year prize is given annually to the
UK-born or UK-based designer or design team that made the biggest impact
on design in the past year. Previous winners include: Jonathan Ive, who, as
head of design at Apple, designed the best-selling iMac computer and iPod
MP3 player; and the pioneering multimedia designer Daniel Brown.
Daniel Brown joins the jury for the third Designer of the Year prize together
with creative director Ilse Crawford, Hugo Manassei of NESTA and awardwinning
novelist Hari Kunzru. Chaired by Alice Rawsthorn, director of the
Design Museum, the jury will select the nominees from recommendations
made by the public on the basis of work completed in 2004. The public can
help to choose the winner by voting at the exhibition and on the Design
Museum website. The prize will be awarded at the Design Museum in May.
At a time of unprecedented popularity for design, Designer of the Year
celebrates the richness and diversity of a field where the UK is acknowledged
as an international leader. The £25,000 prize aims to stimulate public debate
about design and to raise awareness of its role improving the quality of daily
life. Now in its third year, Designer of the Year is established as the UK’s preeminent
design award.
The prize generates significant international media
coverage and, for the first two years, was the subject of a BBC documentary.
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