These are the 397 most inspiring, innovative designs of 2018

Winner

Space10

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Finalist

Fort Worth Camera

Forth Worth Camera

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Bart Shaw, AIA

Cafe X Robotic Coffeebar

Ammunition

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Ammunition Design TeamCafe X

Everlane Retail Experience

Everlane

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Everlane

Experience of the Future

McDonald's

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Landini Associates design firm (designed interior) McDonald's design team (designed kitchen)

In-Store Tech Concept

Reformation

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Yael Aflalo - Founder and CEO of Reformation

The Creative Compound

The Inside

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Christiane Lemieux, CEO and Founder of The Inside Britt Caputo Bunn, COO at The Inside Danielle Walish, Senior Design Director at The Inside Zoli Karpi, Contractor

Honorable Mention

adidas NYC

Adidas – Paul Gaudio, SVP Creative Direction Adidas – Kate Maher, Senior Director Retail Concept Creation Adidas – Jeff Boylan, Director of Construction Gensler NY – John Bricker, Creative Director Gensler NY – Kathleen Jordan, Principal Gensler NY – Amelia Falco, Design Director Gensler NY – Katharine O’Toole, Project Manager Gensler NY – Alexia Beghi, Designer Gensler NY – Tristan Davison, Designer Gensler NY – Caroline Lemoine, Designer Gensler NY – Andrew Herbst, Project Architect Gensler NY – Tony Rambrich, Job Captain Checkland Kindleysides – Jeff Kindleysides, Partner Checkland Kindleysides – Hannah Shepard, Project Manager Checkland Kindleysides – Joe Keating, Creative Director Checkland Kindleysides – Steven Ubsdell, Designer Checkland Kindleysides – Clive Hunt, Designer JT Magen – Vincent Ryan, Vice President Fiskaa – Timothy Kinneman, Mechanical Engineer Rosenwasser/Grossman Consulting Engineers – Danny Jadeja PE, Structural Engineer Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP – Joe Mugford PE, Façade Structural Engineer Lighting Workshop – Doug Russell, Lighting Designer

KFC Kiosk

Ribot

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Antony Ribot, Tara Etherington, Brad Legge, Luis Abreu, Ben Breckler, Brenda Montes

MUJI SoHo Reopening

Muji

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Muji

Princessehof

i29 interior architects

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i29 interior architects

Kate Spade New York Make It Mine

Perch Interactive

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Jared Schiffman (Founder and CTO), Ivana Basic (Design Director) and Corinne Krishnan (Project Manager), Sarah Jaxheimer (Director, Omni Channel Marketing)

Live Hall Vieuno

MOMENT

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Designer : Hisaaki Hirawata, Tomohiro Watabe

Small-Format Concept Store

Sephora

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Sephora

Casper Sleep Shop

Casper

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Eleanor Morgan, SVP of Experience, Casper

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Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.

Dyson’s latest product is a $550 hair curler

After six years and $31 million in development, Dyson is launching the Airwrap, a device that creates ringlets using a bit of aerospace-inspired physics.

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There’s even a Warby Parker of towels now

Weezie wants to shake up a mundane industry with design.

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Low-Tech Magazine’s new website is solar-powered, which means it goes offline in cloudy weather.

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