Social issues dominate 2017 nominations for Beazley Designs of the Year
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The nominations for 2017’s Beazley Designs of the Year awards deal with issues such as the scarcity of women in male-dominated industries, political unrest due to Britain’s Brexit vote and the power of design in bringing the world together, notes The GuarSocial issues dominate 2017 nominations for Beazley Designs of the Year
The nominations for 2017’s Beazley Designs of the Year awards deal with issues such as the scarcity of women in male-dominated industries, political unrest due to Britain’s Brexit vote and the power of design in bringing the world together, notes The Guardian.They will be on display at the Design Museum in London from October 18, 2017. In its tenth anniversary, the exhibition will include 62 nominations across six categories — Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Each category will have a winner and an overall winner shall be announced on January 25, 2018.The nominations include the knitted pink pussyhat, a pro-European Union poster campaign motivated by Donald Trump’s remarks and a lending library of protest banners. The fact that merely 23% of the workforce in Egypt is female finds expression in “The Finding Her” poster campaign, designed by the Japanese agency IC4 Design for the UN in Egypt.The poster features various workers in the fields of politics, science and technology with a caption that reads “Finding women in technology shouldn’t be this hard.” Google’s set of emojis featuring women as industry and factory workers also made it to the list of nominations in the graphics category.The world’s first translating earpiece, developed by Waverly Labs; Google and Monotype’s breakthrough Noto typeface, a free font that can work in at least 800 languages and scripts and Brexit-inspired postcards and photographs find themselves among the nominations as well.A three-dimensional model of the Saydnaya prison in Syria, constructed using the memories and narrations of former detainees and commissioned by Amnesty International is among the most notable nominations in the architecture category.Click here for a sneak peek at the nominations. Read more