14 January 2013Last updated at 13:35

In pictures: Designs of the Year

Clockwise from top: The Shard, Olympic Cauldron, Room for London

The Shard in London (top), the Room for London installation (bottom left) and the Olympic Cauldron (bottom right) make up three of the nominations for the 2013 Design of the Year Award, the winner of which will be announced in April. They and around 90 other contenders make up this year's Design of the Year exhibition, which runs at the Design Museum in London from 20 March to 7 July.

The Four Freedoms Park in New York and the Superkilen park in Copenhagen

Four decades after his death, architect Louis Kahn has won a nomination for New York’s Four Freedoms Park (left), finally completed at the end of 2012. Also shortlisted is Superkilen (right), a kilometre-long park situated through an area to the north of Copenhagen's city centre.

Clockwise from left: Thalia Theatre in Lisbon, Kukje Art Center in Seoul, Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast, Exhibition Road in London

A range of arts projects are nominated for this year's award, among them the newly restored Thalia Theatre in Lisbon (left), the single-storey Kukje Art Center in Seoul (middle top) and the Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast (right). Also in contention is the Exhibition Road project in central London (middle bottom), a £28m scheme to integrate vehicle and foot traffic without boundaries between the pavement and road.

Keira Knightley in costume as Anna Karenina and a scene from Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Nominees are divided into seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. Among the Fashion entries are Jacqueline Durran's Oscar-nominated costumes for the film Anna Karenina (starring Keira Knightley, left) and The Eye Has To Travel, Lisa Immordino's documentary about the legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland (right).

Left to right: Shepard Fairey's Progress poster, the low-energy Plumen light bulb, the Olympic Torch

Previous winners of the Design of the Year Award include Shepard Fairey's famous poster image of President Barack Obama (left), the low-energy Plumen light bulb (centre) and the Olympic Torch, created by the UK design studio Barber Osgerby for the London 2012 games (right).

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In pictures: Designs of the Year

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