Core77 Design Awards

Core77 Design Awards

An Annual Celebration of Excellence, Enterprise and Intent

Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. Dedicated jury teams around the world will judge 15 categories of design endeavor with the top professional and student entries winning the inaugural trophy, and Winners, Runners Up, and Notable entries published in the Awards Gallery and across the Core77 online network. So ready your best work and put yourself out there.

It all starts here.

The Awards come in a variety of flavors, choose yours...

• Products / Equipment
• Soft Goods / Apparel
• Furniture / Lighting
• Interiors / Exhibition
• Graphics / Branding / Identity
• Packaging
• Interactive / Web / Mobile
• Service Design
• Transportation
• Design for Social Impact
• Design Education Initiative
• Strategy / Research
• Speculative Objects / Concepts
• DIY / Hack / Mod
• Never Saw the Light of Day

Get the Poster

Register to enter early and receive the limited-edition Core77 Design Awards poster, designed by Studio Lin.

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Watch and Learn

Watch these example videos from leading designers to get inspiration for making your own.

Meet the Jury

From Tokyo to Turin, San Francisco to Sydney, our global-local teams of jurors are eagerly awaiting your best work.

The Inaugural Trophy

Designed by Rich Brilliant Willing, all Professional and Student winners receive the inaugural trophy and the unique ability to spread the credit widely.

March 9, 2011 · Poster

Register Now to Enter and Get the Limited-Edition Poster by Studio Lin!

We are honored to have worked with Studio Lin in establishing the identity for the Core77 Design Awards, and one of the amazing things they created is the poster you see above. It looks fantastic, its got the C77DA Style Guide on it, and we'd love to send you one of your own! All you have to do is register right now and we'll send you a complimentary poster – it only takes a moment and you can come back to do the next step of submitting your entry anytime before the entry deadline. The posters are limited edition so don't wait! REGISTER HERE

Studio Lin is the graphic design practice of Alex Lin. His work has been featured and awarded by leading design publications such as Wallpaper, ID Magazine,Print Magazine, Metropolis, Surface, Architectural Record, and exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Past Clients and Collaborators include OMA, Artechnica Inc, and Google. VISIT STUDIO LIN

March 8, 2011 · Video Testimonials

Video On Demand

We’re introducing a few new elements to our awards program, not the least of which is adding a show-and-tell-style “video testimonial” to the entry component. Although it’s optional, we strongly encourage entrants to take advantage of this opportunity to give the jury a direct and personal perspective on your work, and to basically tell them what’s really awesome about your design.

For inspiration and edification, we asked four designers to give us their take on the video testimonial.

Dror Benshetrit of Studio Dror narrates his way through a screencast tour of his latest innovation, the QuaDror construction system.

Becky Stern, Associate Editor of Make: Online and CRAFT, explains the components and construction of her amazing TV-B-Gone jacket, a wearable television remote control.

Writer/designer/developer Craig Mod discusses his moment-capturing protocol, Hitotoki, in an interview conducted with a friend on the opposite coast.

Lavrans Løvlie, Director of the Norway-based firm braves the elements to share with us LiveWork’s service design for Oslo’s new public library.

Quick Tips for your video testimonial:

• Keep the setting as straightforward and informal as you want it to be.
• Make it personal. This is your story told your way. It should have a healthy dose of Point of View and be compelling to watch.
• Hit the following points:

1. What you were trying to do when you were designing your project.
2. What’s great about it, what separates it from what’s already out there, and why it deserves the world’s attention.

• Have fun while you’re doing it! This is supposed to be a delightful, informative and personal addition to the required entry materials.

Visit our Making a Video section for full details and start planning your 2-and-a-half minutes of fame!

March 8, 2011 · Jury

Who Are the Jury In Your Neighborhood?

Meet our 15 Jury Captains who are heading up the judging of the Core77 Design Awards. Each of them brings a wealth of expertise and thought leadership to their judging category and we’re very honored that they have chosen to participate in our awards. Instead of bringing everyone to one location, we took a new approach to assembling the jury, distributing the field globally. No plane fuel, more legroom. Our Jury Captains are based in 13 cities spread around eight countries. Each will recruit four people from their area to form a locally-based multidisciplinary Jury Team. They get to do the judging in their own location, and we’ll provide the snacks. Once their results are finalized and validated, the teams will reconvene for a live web broadcast revealing their Winners, Runners-up and Notables, and the reasoning behind their choices. And they’ll do it all without jet lag.

We are pleased then to present our inaugural line-up of Jury Captains:

Products: Julie Lasky, Editor of Change Observer, New York, USA

Soft Goods / Apparel: Peter Kallen, Design Director of NAU, Portland, Oregon, USA

Furniture / Lighting: Max Fraser, Editor & Publisher of London Design Guide, London, United Kingdom

Graphics/Branding/Identity: Steven Heller, author/commentator, and Co-Chair of the MFA Designer as Author at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Packaging: Mark Christou, Creative Director of Pearlfisher, New York, USA

Interiors/Exhibition: Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), Tokyo, Japan

Interactive/Web /Mobile: Jon Kolko, Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv and Founder & Director of Austin Center for Design, Austin, Texas, USA

Transportation: Lars Holme Larsen, Co-Founder of KiBiSi and Founder of Kilo Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

Service Design: Fran Samalionis, Innovation Coach of BT Financial Group, Sydney, Australia

Design for Social Impact: Ashoke Chatterjee, development volunteer and Former Director, National Institute of Design (India), Ahmedabad, India

Strategy/Research: Mark Vanderbeeken, Senior Partner, Strategic Communications at Experientia, Turin, Italy

Design Education Initiative: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Associate Professor in Design Anthropology and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

DIY/Hack/Mod: Christy Canida, Community & Marketing Director of Instructables, and Eric J. Wilhelm, CEO of Instructables and Co-Founding Partner of Squid Labs, San Francisco, CA

Speculative Objects/Concepts: Branko Lukic, Founding Partner of NONOBJECT, Palo Alto, California, USA

Never Saw the Light of Day: Aric Chen, design journalist and Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China

Click here to read their full bios.

March 8th, 2011 · Announcement

We've Arrived (and It's About Time)!

Welcome to the inaugural Core77 Design Awards! For the past 16 years we've been celebrating outstanding design and designers across a wide array of disciplines. Now we're proud to provide a global platform that honors the very brightest, boldest and most impactful work on an annual basis. We hope to set new standards for design awards by leveraging online scale, increasing transparency and decreasing plane fuel. We're opening the field to 15 categories, recognizing the emerging disciplines of Design for Social Impact, Design Education Initiatives, DIY and our intriguing "Never Saw the Light of Day." The submission process is online and allows designers the opportunity to show off their pitching skills by uploading a 2-minute-30-second video as part of their entry (it's optional but advisable).

Our jury system also gives the judging process a new twist. Rather than put each jury member on a plane and fly them to one location, we have selected a head judge for each of the categories (we call them "Jury Captains"). Based in different cities around the world, each captain will select four local experts (within train, bike or jogging distance) to join them in the evaluation process as a unified jury team. Not only that, these teams of jurors will reveal their winning choices via live web broadcasts. With jury teams in time zones as diverse as London, Tokyo, Sydney and Ahmenabad, we're looking forward to announcement parties at all hours of the day and night.

Meanwhile, the design team of Rich Brilliant Willing are hard at work making an award as innovative as the awards program itself. Thirty trophies will be awarded in total; one each of the Professional and Student winners of each category. Stay tuned to Core77 over the next two months as we document the evolution of this year's trophy!

So tell your friends, compile your materials and enter the work that you're proud of. We're ready and waiting!

Super Sexy Roll

Say hello to the Rollerphone concept! At first glance it’s merely a wrist band that projects time, much like the Alessi Concept we saw earlier, but then you realize it’s actually a phone with a retractable transparent screen at the base. How high-tech! It features perfect ergonomics and anthropometry in design thanks to customization – meaning the screen unfurls only to the tip of your fingers, so basically it give you a good fit between the ear and the mouth.

Besides the obvious features found in the latest cellphones, Rollerphone boasts of an enviable media centre. You can watch videos, chat online, play games, read books and listen to music. It’s going to be hard parting with a phone like this, who wouldn’t want their entire digital world on their wrist!

Designer: Alexey Chugunnikov

Salone Milan 2011 Preview: Case Study for Tron + Corian + Lago, by Shai Akram

Living Room Concept for Tron Designs Corian

Disney + Corian + Lago + Us + lots of pizza = A living room concept for Milan 2011

It's a long and (slightly) complicated story, full of unusual partnerships and unanticipated outcomes...Disney and Dupont have teamed up to exhibit in Milan this year. They decided to use two of their innovative products as the foundation the show—for Disney that was Tron: Legacy and Dupont wanted to take their well known material, Corian, into a new dimension.

The idea was to recreate the virtual world of Tron using Corian as the primary material and invite a selection of designers to propose furniture for each area of the 'safe house' (Kevin Flynns virtual home in the film). Invited designers and companies include Cappelini, Ernesto Meda andLago.

Background

Domestic furniture company Lago, is known for their interior 'systems' and unusual take on product communication, overseen inhouse by Diego Paccagnella. Paccagnella had the idea to create 'Apartmentos' to showcase the company's products in real-life situations—inviting people to live with the furniture and configure it to their individual needs as a convincing way to show the products in action. It was at the Apartmento in Zona Tortona two years ago that we first met Diego. My collaborator,Andrew Haythorntwaite and Jordi Canudas worked on a project (Buon Apettito) that needed some 'unauthorised' places to exhibit and Paccagnella (who knew Canudas previously) allowed the project to be shown at the Apartmento.

When Lago was approached to design the 'living room concept' for the Tron/Corian project, Paccagnella invited Canudas to particpate, and as the project was quite a large one—Jordi in turn extended the invitation to Haythorthwaite and I (the three of us had collaborated several times before). Which explains the 'us' in the equation—myself, Andrew Hathornthwaite and Jordi Canudas—three designers who enjoy working together and share an appreciation for the process of making as a kind of 'performance' of design.

Andrew, Shai, Jordi

The Project

The brief was to create a space that was easily recognizable as a living room, built from Corian with a strong visual connection to the film.

As Jordi now lives in Spain and we are based in the UK, we decided to relocate to the manufacturers in Italy and work on the project together on site. We spent a very enjoyable week by the mountains—brainstorming, prototyping, eating amazing pizza and debating over late night grappa.

Proposal Overview

The virtual world described in Tron: Legacy has a strong and distinctive visual character. The environment is largely made up of geometric forms intersected by illuminated lines of coloured light, echoing its computer generated foundation and moving away from organic, irregular forms found in the 'real' world.

An often repeated shape throughout the film is the circle: it is present in objects, vehicles and graphics. This simple geometric shape is usually animated by another key motif: lines of light that cross over the costumes, transport and environment.

We focused on these two elements: circles and lines of colour, to create the foundation for the visual language of the pieces, building a living room scenario that can belong within the aesthetic world of Tron.

Materials

Thermo-moulding is one of the most immediate methods to create objects from Corian, the pressed sheets are formed, cut and joined to build volume and mass. This project takes a close look at the possibilities of moulding and develops a process of taking a single repeated shape, reconfigured via a range of interactions to create a landscape of functional objects where each expresses their own story of making. Much like the different digital characters within the film, each object has the same beginning, but very different outcomes.

Instead of camouflaging the joins within the furniture, intersections are highlighted by blue lines of glue that traverse the surface—easily explaining the concept and bringing the added dimension of the language of the interior world of Tron.

Living Room Elements

Each element that we commonly find in a living room scenario is analyzed and retranslated using a modular 'building block' of thermo-moulded Corian. As each product typology (book shelf, fireplace, coffee table and easy chair) has its own particular functional demand, every piece introduces a new method of cutting, joining and reconfiguring. The possibilities of building from a single formed piece are limitless!

Alongside looking at the unique production possibilities of the material, each piece is developed with a close look at the virtual world and how the real world living room might change in the realm of Tron. For example, we know that there is no real fuel to burn in the virtual world, so the fireplace becomes an interpretation of a focal point within the space, updated for this special new context.

The exhibition opens on the 11th April and runs until the 17th at Padiglione Visconti, Via Tortona 58, Milano, Italy.

Autism Connects Challenge: Only 10 Days Left!!

Calling all students! There's only 10 days left to enter our Autism Connects student design challenge. Help create real-world solutions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and win $5000 in this international student competition! Have your work reviewed by our esteemed judges which include Yves Behar (fuseproject), Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram), Richard Seymour (Seymourpowell) and our own Allan Chochinov (Core77) considering all entries. In addition, Autism Speaks will award creators (or one representative in the case of a team entry) of the top three designs a $1,000 stipend and registration fees to attend the 2011 International Meeting for Autism Research, to be held May 12 to 14, 2011 in San Diego, CA, where they will be invited to present their design concept.

See more details about the design/communication challenge after the jump and don't delay, enter TODAY!

BACKGROUND At some point in our lives, each of us will likely meet a person on the autism spectrum, or know someone who is touched by this complex condition. ASDs are prevalent worldwide, affecting nearly 1 percent of the population and 1 out of 70 boys. Although individuals on the autism spectrum vary enormously, in most instances difficulties in communication skills are one of the core challenges faced by those living with autism today. These difficulties can cover a wide spectrum, ranging from individuals with little to no speech, to those who may be fluid verbally yet have difficulty reading other people's intentions and emotions or understanding use of abstract language such as metaphors and analogies.

TASK DEFINITION

Designers are invited to produce new and innovative technology-based solutions to assist individuals with ASD in their communications with others and, in doing so, to increase the public's understanding of this unique and growing population. Design solutions should focus on improving communication on any of a number of levels: between individuals, within and between communities and their members, and among individuals without ASD so they can connect better with individuals who do.

Think creatively! Although designers may choose to explore web-based, tablet-based, mobile software or hardware solutions, technology-based solutions are not restricted to electrically-powered devices, and may include low-tech, innovative design solutions. Entries may be design concepts or fully realized solutions.

Koenigsegg Agera R có giá trên 1,4 triệu USD

(24h) - Một trong những siêu phẩm của làng xế hộp là chiếc Koenigsegg Agera R, vừa mới chính thức được nhà sản xuất công bố thông số kỹ thuật cũng như mức giá dành cho mẫu siêu xe này.

Ra mắt lần đầu tiên tại Geneva Motor Show, siêu xe Koenigsegg Agera R ngay lập tức đã thu hút được sự chú ý người xem với khả năng tăng tốc cùng hiệu suất mạnh mẽ mà nó mang lại.

Siêu xe Koenigsegg Agera R

Với việc được trang bị động cơ khủng V8 5.0 lít, giúp nó sản sinh ra công suất 1.115 mã lực (1.099 hp / 820 kW) và mô-men xoắn đạt 1.200 Nm (885 lb-ft). Động cơ được kết hợp với hộp số ly hợp kép 7 cấp, cho phép siêu xe Agera R tăng tốc từ 0-100 km/giờ chỉ với 2,9 giây, từ 0-200 km/giờ trong khoảng 7,5 giây, và đạt vận tốc 390 km/giờ (tương đương 245 dặm) chỉ với 12,7 giây, tốc độ tối đa mà siêu xe này đạt được là 420 km/giờ. Có được sức mạnh trên một phần là nhờ hệ thống phanh carbon-ceramic cùng hệ thống làm mát má phanh thông minh mà Koenigsegg đem lại.

Với khả năng vận hành trên, Koenigsegg Agera R nghiễm nhiên trở thành đối thủ duy nhất “tạm thời” có thể “so kè” với siêu xe Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport sản sinh ra công xuất 1200 mã lực, có khả năng tăng tốc từ 0-100 km/giờ chỉ với 2,2 giây và có vận tốc tối đa 431 km/h.

Về mặt hiệu quả, Koenigsegg Agera R có mức tiêu thụ nhiên liệu trung bình14,7 lít/100 km và lượng khí thải CO2 là 310 g/km.

Về mặt thiết kế, toàn bộ hệ thống khung gầm, lớp vỏ bên ngoài của Agera R được làm bằng sợi carbon giúp chiếc xe giảm được đáng kể trọng lượng và giữ ở mức 1330 kg. Cánh gió sau điều chỉnh tùy ý, hệ thống nâng thủy lực, định vị vệ tinh, cảm ứng G, thảm da và chìa khóa bạc.

Bên trong cabin, Koenigsegg Agera R sở hữu những trang thiết bị hiện đại như: Ghế bọc da, cửa sổ chỉnh điện và hệ thống định vị GPS, hệ thông âm thanh kết nối iPod với USB. Nếu từng đấy là chưa đủ, khách hàng còn có những tùy chọn khác bao gồm:, cánh gió nhỏ phía trước, camera quan sát phía sau, ghế sưởi, một số chi tiết được làm bằng sợi carbon, hộp đồ trượt tuyết lắp trên nóc xe, ván trượt, hệ thống ống xả Inconel và những chiếc bánh xe chuyên dụng.

Hiện tại, hãng xe Thụy Điển vẫn chưa công bố chi tiết mức giá dành cho siêu xe này, nhưng nhiều khả năng có giá vào khoảng 1.000.000 Euro (tương đương 1. 418.935 USD).

Chiêm ngưỡng siêu xe Koenigsegg Agera R

Nguyễn Thanh (24H.COM.VN)

Công bố chi tiết Nexus S 4G

(24h) - Ngày hôm qua, Google đã chính thức công bố chiếc điện thoại Nexus S 4G sẽ được dành cho nhà mạng Sprint của Mỹ ngay trước thềm triển lãm CTIA, đồng thời cũng sẽ cập bến nhà bán lẻ Best Buy.

Theo những thông tin mà Google cho biết, Nexus S 4G cũng có cấu hình giống với phiên bản GSM/UMTS đang có mặt trên thị trường hiện nay nhưng máy sẽ chuyển sang hỗ trợ mạng CDMA và 4G WiMax, tích hợp đầy đủ dịch vụ Google Voice.

Điện thoại Nexus S 4G

Về thông số kỹ thuật, Nexus S 4G được trang bị bộ vi xử lý tốc độ 1GHz, camera 5 megapixel hỗ trợi quay phim HD 720p, chạy hệ điều hành Android 2.3, một màn hình cảm ứng 4-inch Super AMOLED, bộ nhớ trong 16GB, kết nối Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS, thẻ nhớ microSD lên đến 32GB và pin 1500mAh.

Cũng giống như nhà mạng Sprint, nhà bán lẻ Best Buy cũng chưa công bố chính xác ngày bán chiếc điện thoại thông minh Nexus S 4G. Tuy nhiên, chắc chắn nó sẽ có sẵn tại các cửa hàng trong tháng tới tại Mỹ với mức giá khởi điểm 199,99 USD kèm theo hợp đồng từ nhà cung cấp.

Nguyễn Thanh (24H.COM.VN)