To coincide with the Design Cities exhibition at the Design Museum, we ran a competition on Flickr requesting users to submit their photographs documenting contemporary design in cities. From over 1000 entries, we asked judges Angus Hyland (Pentagram), Deyan Sudjic (Design Museum), George Oates (Flickr) and Kevin Cummins to select their favourite twenty.

Here's Angus and George's selections, along with their thoughts on the images.

Angus Deyan

"Photographing an upside down reflection of your subject is quite a common trick but I like the composition of the half circle of the wheel and the relationship between spoke and branch."

"Being a pedestrian in any city is a situation often charged with danger and anxiety. This is just really sweet moment sensitively framed."

"Contemporary archaeology"

"Great cities should provide us with all sorts of photo opportunities whether spontaneous or gauche"

"This a lovely composition - if I were the architect of the Reina Sofia Arts Palace I would be very happy someone has made this simple visual analogy between my design and nature"

George Oates:

"I picked these photos because each of them reminded me of a lovely line from Shakespeare, in The Comedy of Errors:

"I will go lose myself / And wander up and down to view the city."

I particularly enjoy discovering the nooks and crannies a city has to offer; those places where we, the people, tailor a space to make it our own. I'm not so enamoured with a city's architectural wonders, but prefer an individual impression of human affect. That is what charms us about a city.

(See The Starfish Interchange top)

Next week we'll be reviewing Deyan Hyland and Kevin Cummin's selections. Until then, you can find out more about all the photographers, and see the rest of the entries over at www.flickr.com/groups/designcities/