We take a look at the top designs from this year's Lexus Design Award 2017.

Now in its fifth year, the Lexus Design Award was first launched in 2013 to help create ideas “to build a better tomorrow”. The competition supports up-and-coming designers across the globe. 2017’s theme, which drew 1,152 entries from 63 countries, was the notion of contradiction and juxtaposition suggested by the word “yet.”

Visitors to the awards ceremony and exhibition of shortlisted entries were greeted by Ancient Yet Modern, a 3D-printed glass installation by Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group. The exhibition went on to reveal the 12 finalists selected by a panel of world-renowned designers and creative mentors including New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn, architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, and British designer Max Lamb in November 2016. From those 12, four were selected to develop their ideas into prototypes, and those prototypes formed the main part of the exhibition.
Structural Color – Static Yet Changing was created by shortlisted designer Jessica Fügler, who is one of three finalists based in the United States ? the first time in the award’s history that American designers have made it this far.

Currently based in New York, Fügler is a graduate from the Design Products program at London’s Royal College of Art. The structure is static yet changeable depending on the perspective of the onlooker, and is a develo...