Beazley Designs of the Year nominations feature a host of politically charged and socially engaged projects

ARCHITECTURE

• Mrs Fan's Plug-In House. Designed by People'e Architecture Office.
• Warka Water. Designed by Artuto Vittori.
• Hegnhuset, memorial and learning centre on Utøya, Norway. Designed by Blakstad Haffner Architects.
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Adjaye Associates, the Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond, SmithGroupJJR.
• Wind and Rain Bridge. Donn Holohan with students from the University of Hong Kong and Peitian Community Craftsmen.
• Sala Beckett Theatre and International Drama Center. Designed by Flores & Prats.
• The Calais Builds Project. Gráinne Hassett with migrants living in the Calais Jungle and students of Architecture from the University of Limerick.
• Croft Lodge Studio. Kate Darby Architects and David Connor Design.
• Lycée Schorge Secondary School.  Kéré Architecture.
• Weltsadt-Refugees' Memories and Futures as Models. Schlesische27 International Youth, Arts and Culture Center in collaboration with Raumlaborberlin and the SRH Hochschule der Populären Künste—hdpk.
• The Environment Enhancement of the Five Dragons Temple. Designed by Urbanus.
• Port House. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.
• Il Fondaco Tedeschi, Venice. Designed by OMA.

DIGITAL

• Premier League on-air branding. DixonBaxi.
• Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design. Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• Saydnaya: Inside a Syrian Torture Prison. Forensic Architecture and Amnesty International.
• Meet Graham: The only person designed to survive on our roads. Patricia Piccinini for Transport Accident Authority (TAC).
• Pokémon Go. Niantic.
• Rapid Liquid Printing. Self-Assembly Lab, MIT in collaboration with Steelcase.
• OTHR. Joe Doucet, Dean DiSimone and Evan Clabots.
• Professional Women Emoji. Agustin Fonts, Rachel Been, Mark Davis, Nicole Bleuel and Chang Yang.
• Refugee Text. Kåre M. S. Solvåg, Caroline Arvidsson, Ciarán Duffy.
• Google Noto. Google and Monotype.

FASHION

• Pussyhat Project. Krista Suh, Jayna Zweiman, Kat Coyle and Aurora Lady.
• New Object Research 'The Rite of Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter'. Aitor Throup.
• Ecoalf. by Ecoalf.
• Life of Pablo merchandise and pop-up stores. Kanye West and Mat Vlasic for Bravado.
• Levi’s® Commuter™ Trucker Jacket with Jacquard™ by Google. Levi Strauss & Co. and Google Inc.
• Nike Pro Hijab.  Rachel Henry, Baron Brandt and Megan Saalfeld for Nike.

GRAPHICS

• Protest Banner Lending Library. Aram Han Sifuentes in collaboration with Verónica Casado Hernandez, Ishita Dharap, and Tabitha Anne Kunkes.
• Finding Her. IC4DESIGN with DDB Dubai for UN Women Egypt.
• Ibiza Mykonos Jeremy Corbyn (Politcal Protests). Michael Oswell. 
• New logo and Identity for Reykjavik Art Museum.  karlssonwilker inc.
• N.A.A.F.I design identity. Alberto Bustamente a.k.a Mexican Jihad.
• Me & EU.  Nathan Smith and Sam T Smith.
• Real Review.  Jack Self, Editor-in-Chief, and OK-RM (Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath), Creative Directors.
• Wales Nation Brand.  Smörgåsbord.
• 'Fractured Lands', The New York Times Magazine, 14 August 2016. Jack Silverstein, Editor-in-Chief, Gail Bichler, Design Director, and Matt Willey, Art Director, for The New York Times Magazine.
• Unit Editions. Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy and Patricia Finegan.
• Pro-EU anti-Brexit Campaign. Wolfgang Tillmans, Between Bridges.
• The Refugee Nation flag.  Yara Said with The Refugee Nation for Amnesty International. 

PRODUCT

• Avy Search and Rescue Drone. Paul Vastert, David Wielemaker, Christian McCabe and Patrique Zaman.
• Dansbana! Vårby gård.  Dansbana! (Anna Fridolin, Anna Pang and Teres Selberg) for Huddinge kommuni
• BuffaloGrid. Daniel Becerra.
• Alphabet of Light.  BIG—Bjarke Ingels Group of Artemide.
• Flax Chair.  Christien Meindertsma for LABEL/BREED.
• AIR-INK. Graviky Labs.
• Remolten.  gt2P (great things 2 People) with Friedman Benda.
• Wedge Dowel. IKEA.
• Solid Textile Board Benches.  Max Lamb for Really. 
• Nimuno Loops.  Anine Kirsten, Max Basler and Jaco Kruger.
• The Pilot translating earpiece. Waverly Labs.
• SNOO Smart Sleeper.  Yves Béhar and fuseproject for Dr Harvey Karp's Happiest Baby.
• Sufferhead Original Stout. Emeka Ogboh.

TRANSPORT

• Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART). CRRC.
• Mahjouba Initiative. Eric van Hove.
• Olli. Local Motors.
• Light Traffic. Carlo Ratti at Senseable City Lab, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• SeaBubbles. Alain Thebault and Anders Bringal.
•  Honda Moto Riding Assist.  Honda.
• Scewo. Thomas Gemperle, Adrien Weber, Naomi Stieger, Stella
  Mühlhaus, Bernhard Winter, Pascal Buholzer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• Gita. Piaggio Fast Forward.