Design for Our Future Selves awards 2006

Helen Hamlyn Award for Creativity

Winner

Josephine Glyn: Greenwich Pen.

Judges’ comment:

“In a wonderfully strong year for Architecture, this project stands out as addressing a subject that is very close to Helen Hamlyn Trust interests.”

Highly Commended

Jonathan Punter: Future Family Automotive

Judges’ comment:

“A dynamic, exciting and lively look at how families use vehicles.”

A special award for creativity across all disciplines, made personally by Helen Hamlyn, whose Foundation has endowed the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre.

The Helen Hamlyn Foundation was established in 1985 to promote better products and a better environment for older people. Today the Foundation’s interests have broadened to encompass inclusive design - practical initiatives aimed at improving quality of life for people of all ages and abilities, in collaboration with industry and the voluntary sector.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Helen Hamlyn Foundation’s landmark exhibition New Design for Old, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1986.

Helen Hamlyn graduated as a fashion designer from the Royal College of Art in the mid-1950s and worked in industry as head designer for Cresta Silks and Debenhams, before devoting herself to charitable works in Europe and India.