A’ Design Award and Competition — the gargantuan awards roll-call that believes our collective futures will be shaped by arts, design, and technology; and recognises creativity that masters those sectors — have announced this year’s winners, a breathtaking array of design talent from across countless disciplines.
Loyly Public Sauna and Restaurant by Ville Hara
Photo © kuvio.com
With 1,958 winners hailing from 98 countries and representing 97 different design disciplines, the A’ Design Award and Competition 2017 is an impressive ode to international creativity. Branding; interiors; system design; transport; product design; fahion; marketing, and oodles more. From Creative Prototyping Unit’s high-tech lighting installation at China’s Sinan Mansions to Mark Talbot and Youngjin Yoon kitschy homage to the Postmodern radicalism of Ettore Sottsass’s Memphis design movement; complex interior structures like PTANG STUDIO LIMITED’s whimsical wooden whisky bar and on to Zhang WeiMin’s bold and brilliant typography.
The beautiful simplicity of Matt McCormick’s lighting designs; Martina Taranto’s 3D-printed chair informed by nomadic lifestyles; Takeshi Sawada’s irresistible Bambi Chair … We Heart’s editors have handpicked 20 winning designs from almost 2,000 winners; the diversity of design from almost 100 countries distilled into a bitesized nugget of the huge number of creative talents who took the honours at this year’s glamorous gala-night and award ceremony on Lake Como.
Think you’ve got what it takes to walk away with a gong at next year’s monumental celebration of pioneering creativity? Want to bask in the unique prestige that only winners of an A’ Design Award and Competition can? Register your work now for next year’s competition. For those of you simply here for the eye candy, peel back those eyelids and dive in …
Bob by Mark Talbot. Photo © Joon Hyun Hwang
Colors Urban Hotel by Urban Soul Project
Natural Healing Workshop by Pei-Ying Lee. Photo © SU,DONG-SHAN
Lingering Fonts by Zhang WeiMin
Halo Pendants by Matt McCormick
PS150 Bar by Genius Loci Pte Ltd
La Smilza Darwinian Chair by Martina Taranto
Synthesis by Merve Uçar. Photo © Barbara Franzo
Heaven is a Place On Earth by Dr. Regina Dahmen-Ingenhoven. Photo © Holger Knauf
Copper Whiskey Bar & Lounge by PTANG STUDIO LIMITED
Resonet Sinan Mansions by William Hailiang Chen.
Photo © Steven Chang
Parka Craft Beer Bar by Valeriy Lizunov. Photo © Olga Melekestseva
Tribeca Loft by Andrew Franz. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto
Léon by Lewis Power
Bambi Chair by Takeshi Sawada. Photo © kamina&C
A Chairs by Yi-An, Hung. Photo © Clivelan
Bolina Room Divider by Alessandra Meacci
Chris Cran Exhibition Catalogue by Stefan Canuel, RGD
VacuumGlow Clock by VacuumGlow. Photo © Vadim Garnaev
