Amateurs de design et d’architecture, c’est aujourd’hui le lancement de la semaine du #design à #Paris ! Décoration, gastronomie, mode, jusqu’au 15 septembre, ce parcours libre est un vrai clin d’œil à la création et l’imagination. Ponctuée d’expositions et de soirées festives, cette manifestation nous accueille dans plus d’une centaine de lieux. Une belle mise en lumière des idées artistiques !

Benjamin Hubert's studio developed a modular system of display plinths and wall mounts for Designs of the Year 2015 exhibition at London's Design Museum

As with every year, the sprawling, disparate, all-over-the-shop nature of the Design Museum’s _Designs of the Year_ show is both the brilliant thing about it and the thing that makes it so utterly disorienting. Having an Escher-inspired mobile game (Monument Valley) share space with the Google self-driving car and a sanitation system for remote, off-grid areas (Eawag’s Blue Diversion unit) makes even the least design-oriented visitor surely question the nature of what “design” itself means. Should it look beautiful? Should it make our day easier? Should it help the planet? Should it save lives?And also as with every year, we see it can do all of these things, one of these things, or none of these things. Design is a gloriously big, slippery word; and what Designs of the Year does so well is not propose a definition, but merely showcase the things that are at the very top of their class, and do what they aim to do perfectly. The 2015 show feels more spacious and easy to navigate than in previous years, with exhibition design by Benjamin Hubert and graphics by Kellenberger-White which are pared back, simple and articulate exactly what we’re seeing. We ran through the excellent nominations in the graphics section

Dezeen has teamed up with London's Design Museum to give readers the chance to win five pairs of tickets for the Designs of the Year 2015 exhibition

Exhibition design and related graphic communications by Cartlidge Levene for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 at the Design Museum, London.