Welcome to Wallpaper’s annual Design Awards concern, a fixture of our editorial calendar (that is its twenty first yr), but in addition, more and more, a vastly worthwhile, time-stamped appraisal of the perfect the world has to supply by way of trend, expertise, structure, interiors, journey and artwork.
As ever, the Wallpaper* crew has been each avid of their appreciation and acute of their adjudication of every of our winners; conscious, too, that making use of a ‘time stamp’ to achievement is essentially limiting.
In any case, actually nice design isn’t for a month or a yr, however has the potential to completely alter our path of journey, affecting lives in ways in which may take some time to understand. It’s with this in thoughts that we determined to shake up the awards course of itself (and I might personally like to specific gratitude to the 100-plus creatives who’ve, over 20 years, lent their shoulder to the judging wheel) as a way to carry a contemporary perspective to our alternatives.
Selecting the Wallpaper* 2025 Design Award winners
Our editors have thus taken full possession of this yr’s winners’ enclosure, stipulating not solely who gained, however why and the way they achieved their award.
So as to add additional context, we requested 5 main figures from throughout the inventive industries to pen their very own appraisal of what counts – and what doesn’t – in a world each buffeted by, and borne aloft on, seismic societal, technological and cultural change. I’d prefer to thank Es Devlin, Ilse Crawford, Lesley Lokko, Sou Fujimoto and Yves Behar for taking the time to share their ideas, the Wallpaper* crew for his or her diligence and insights, and all of the winners for satisfying our insatiable urge for food for the brand new, the novel and the subsequent.
Invoice Prince
Editor-in-Chief
The February 2025 concern of Wallpaper* is on the market in print on newsstands from 9 January 2025, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple Information +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* at the moment
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