Design of the Year

Design of the Year (some even call it with the ambitions name - The Oscar of the Design...) is the London Museum of Design's annual Award for the most innovative and interesting Design from all over the world.

The Award is given to seven different categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphic, Product and Transport. It is sponsored by Brit Insurance (that probably uses the platform to show that Insurance companies are not only what we think...)

The winners of last year (2011) Award were the British Designer Samuel Wilkinson and the Product Designer Company - Hulger for Plumen 001. They won the Award for their stunning redesign of the low energy light bulb.

Category Award winners and the overall winner of the Year Award 2012 will be announced in April. To see the nominees for the different categories click here.

The winner of last year Award - Plumen 001

Nominated for the Year Award 2012 - Zaha Hadid with the Opera house in Guangzhou, China (she already won with it the 2011 RIBA Award)

Godwin's Law

it's hard to argue with someone that has this name, but Godwin's law is an interesting/humorous observation, made by Mike Godwin in 1990, about behavior in online discussions and threads. it states: "as online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1". it doesn't say if the comparison is appropriate or not, only that in a long-run online debate, regardless the topic or the scope, someone will eventually make it. two other observations were made later to the observation: first, that once it occurs, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost, whatever argument was in progress. second, any intentional use of Godwin's law in order to invoke a thread ending will be unsuccessful...go figure...