brit insurance design awards 2010 category winners

today the seven category winners from about a hundred nominees were announced. they will then compete for the overall brit insurance design of the year 2010, to be announced at the awards ceremony at the london design museum on 16 march.

‘las anacuas’ in monterrey, mexico architecture: monterrey housing mexico by elemental, chile

alexander mcqueen show in paris

fashion: alexander mcqueen spring/summer ’10 and spring/summer catwalk presentation plato’s atlantis, UK

grassworks at aram gallery furniture: grassworks by jair straschnow, netherlands

‘the newspaper club’

the eyewriter interactive: the eyewriter by members of free art and technology, openframeworks, graffiti research LA, the ebeling group and tony quan, USA

folding plug

product: folding plug, by min-kyu choi, UK

the world’s first commercial electric powered flight system

transport: E430 electric aircraft by yuneec international, china

the jury is composed of british artist antony gormley, designer tom dixon, justin mcguirk (editor of icon magazine), graphic designer morag myerscough, style editor of grazia magazine paula reed and david rowan (editor of UK wired magazine).

the judging criteria was to select ‘work that reflects issues raised by one or more of the concerns of the current debate on design; to consider the responsiveness of the design to the social, cultural and economic landscape as well as environmental issues; and to assess the degree to which the project has fulfilled the expectations of users and clients’.