the winner's!!! - core 77 design competition 2000

	Christian Makela \| Bulk Code Industrial Design - Helsinki, Finland Age:30 Design Education:BA, industrial design (lahti institute of design) Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? I find it really fascinating seeing how stuff we just yesterday considered as sci-fi becomes part of our life today. It is all the more difficult to tell the difference between science fiction and real life. I take that setting not as a threat but a challenge and a great source of inspiration for lots of my work. Your design heroes?:People who are ready to push the limits in order to succeed. Additional comments for the Core Audience: trust your instincts
	(alphabetically listed by project)
	Ed McMullin, Tem Keuchle \| Air View Ikwita Design - San Jose, CA, USA Age: 40 (Ed McMullin), 27 (Tem Keuchle) Design Education: San Jose State University Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Making things that help people. Your design heroes?: My Dad, Leslie Spears, everyone who creates art in any form; traditional art, photographs, products, speeches, or when the team concept actually works. Anyone who works with energy, excitement, and elegance.
	Mike Nickel and Brett Vladika \| Digital Dingo Brooks Stevens Design - Grafton, WI, USA Age:28 (Mike), 30 (Brett) Design Education: Mike - Graduated from U. of Cincinnati, 1997, B.S. in Industrial Design Brett - Graduated from U. of Cincinnati, 1993, B.S. in Industrial Design Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Mike - Fast Cars, Fast Women, and Fat Checks. What else is there except, product that have a certain character to them. Products that have meaning, and are not just a skin job. I am inspired by solutions that change the way we look at a products and the function of a product, I-Mac, Anna Pepper Mill, Koziol Kitchen Utensils, Swingline Contura Stapler, Oxo, Ray Bowls, Ekco Clip'n Stay, and the list keeps going. It's products that mix new materials, new function, and a little bit of fun that inspire me. Brett - Belvidere Vodka, and anything phat, funky and sweet! Environmentally savvy -not conscious but savvy- design that flows into a karmically blessed nirvanic continuum. Your design heroes?: Mike - Stark, Karim Rashid, Mark Newson, and most of all Casey Ketterhagen of Big Johnson Outdoors Brett - Frank Lloyd Wright, the Eames combo, and not to be forgotten, Big Johnson Outdoor's very own, Raymond H. Klein II.
	Glen Clifton, Joe Wieck \| Kursk Sub-Sea Memorial ID-One - Austin, TX, USA Age: 31 (Glen), 27 (Joe) Design Education:Glen - BS ID, Joe - BS Mechanical Engineering @ Texas A&M University, MS Mechanical Engineering - Product Design and Development @ University of Texas Austin Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Inspiration is infinitely dynamic and fleeting. when you get it, capture it and act on it. today you've got about 12 seconds to do so or its gone.... Your design heroes?: All those anonymous industrial designers slaving away for big business everyday that add so much magic to our lives. .....and of-coarse these guys: Bill Moggridge Donald Judd Buckmeister Fuller Gaudi Marc Newson Jasper Morrison Phillipe Stark Shiro Kurumata Pininfarina Group Dieter Rams Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Additional comments for the Core Audience: Embrace passion and compassion whenever you can.
	Matthew Andrews \| Link University of Northumbria at Newcastle - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Age: 21 Design Education: I am a 3rd years Design for Industry student from the University of Northumbria. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? I take inspiration from everyday life. It is the challenge to improve what has gone before by exploring different directions and future possibilities in our ever changing world. Your design heroes?: I do not have any design 'heroes' as such but recently met Jonathan Ive of Apple and found him to be very inspiring. Additional comments for the Core Audience: For more examples of my work please visit: http://www.mattdesign.co.uk
	Rui Bernardini Azenha \| Piercing Eyewear Freelancer - Lisbon, Portugal Age:31 Design Education: I'm an art and design self student and a technical design professional with good knowledge of 3D-Design and materials application software, important for model conception and realistic photo images of future object prototypes (Autocad na 3dStudioMax). I have also important knowledge of image manipulation software, which provides me the production capacity of high quality presentations in all areas of my activity (Coreldraw and Photoshop). With self creativity allied with technical knowledge and constant observation, self study and research, i have the oportunity to be present in national and international design competitions. Since 1996, when I finished my Professional and Tenhnical Design Course that I work as Engeneering Designer. I have worked in many different areas such as Hydraulic Infrastructures, Metalic Stuctures, Concrete. At this moment i work for Railway Catenary System Engeneering since 1998. Beside this i always keep my mind open for invent and create new concepts for Industrial Design or Graphic Design as a Freelancer. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Piercing Eyewear is based in two sources of influence. The first is the piercing fashion that was brought to the developed countries as a new fashion wear and originally was borned and used since along time ago by some of the ancient African and Australian tribes. The second is the power and the atmosphere lived on the night life feasts that exist in the big cities of the world where Fashion style have the oportunity to emerge. All the things i create are inspired by all the visual sources that "flys" around me, a little bit like a painter artist. I capt all the information that i can, by all means that exist today and transform them in the way i think and please, always being concerned about new esthetical concepts and funcionalities Your design heroes?: Leonardo DaVinci (Invention and research) Antoni Gaudi (Architecture) M.C. Escher (Ilustration and research) Kadinski (Painter artist) Bauhaus (Design Development Institution) Fátima Lopes (Portuguese Fashion Design)
	Masayasu Date, David Flynt, Jay Kovacs \| Project SSV Art Center College of Design - Pasadena, CA, USA Age: 32 (Masayasu..pictured above), 28 (Jay), 35 (David) Design Education:Masayasu Marco Date - Art Center College of Design (Transportation Design major) David Flynt- Art Center College of Design (Product Design major) Jay Kovacs- Art Center College of Design (Product Design major) Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Masayasu Marco Date- life experience,research, and future vision. Sometimes it's an endless struggle and one day, it "clicks"! Jay Kovacs- Anything, Everything, and Nothing In Particular David Flynt- Muscle Cars, Snowboard/Skateboard culture, the letter X, Marine (as in underwater) life, the Simpsons, that little smile that creeps on someone's face when they first "connect" with a design that lets them do something that is normally outside their range of experience or understanding. Your design heroes?:Giorgetto Giugiaro, Syd Mead, Hayao Miyazaki, God, Marc Scepi, Tim Burton, Frank Lloyd Wright, and that guy at Astro.... Additional comments for the Core Audience:Please take a look at more of my work at http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/pods
	Peter Allen and Carla Murray \| Skinthetic KnoWear - Cataumet, MA, USA Age:32 (Peter), 30 (Carla) Design Education: Peter: BFA- University of Hartford [sculpture] 1989 Diploma- North Bennett Street School [18th and 19th furniture reproduction]1995 MFA- Cranbrook Academy of Design [3d-design]1999 Carla: BFA-California College of Arts and Crafts [industrial design]1997 MFA- Cranbrook Academy of Design [3d-design]2000 Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? The premise behind the collaboration of KnoWear is a multifaceted ideology. KnoWear finds it’s inspiration in the idea that technology allows one to be anywhere and nowhere and that home, work or leisure is solely dependent on where one can plug in. We are interested in bending and shaping technology as well as new and interesting materials into beautifully designed objects. We are a collaboration that is amorphous in nature where we tend to expand or condense according to the project in which we are involved. We are designers who are interested in not only the idea of concept but also how our ideas can be realized in everyday objects. Your design heroes?: Constantin Brancuzi for his ability to create objects that are pure uncompromised forms, which are timeless Hussan Chalayan for his ability to create work that is elegant and innovative, bridging a gap between fashion and product design Charles and Ray Eames for their ability to collaborate to create innovative ways to bring design objects to the masses Tim Berners-Lee because he has changed the way the world looks at design graphically, physically and virtually by writing the software that launched the World Wide Web in 1989 Marc Newson for making the blobject an every day object
	Peter Valois \| Soft System Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY, USA Age:N/A Design Education:Currently a senior Industrial Design student at Pratt Institute. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? My ultimate goal is to foster an intimate and understanding relationship between people and the physical world. I consider all of the objects that inhabit our world to be individual personalities. As a designer, I wish to create warm, rich object-personlities with which people can buid lasting relationships. By creating a deep and innate understanding between a person and an object's qualities (function, material, shape, sound, smell, etc.) a loving bond will develop. Your design heroes?: Droog Design (the rubber sink battle begins)
	Romain Vollet \| Steambox UCE, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design - Birmingham, UK Age:21 Design Education:1997-2000: ENSAAMA, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliquées et des Métiers d'Arts; Paris (France) 2000: UCE, Institute of Art & Design; Birmingham (United Kingdom) Additional comments for the Core Audience: It's really interesting to notice nowadays this outstanding proliferation of online design contests. According to me, this new approach will enable large scale of cultural exchange, which is essential for a good designer with an extremely open-minded. That's why I'm very inspired by frequency travels all around these rich foreign cultures. Whatever its distance or period, near, far, antique, contemporary, each one has so much to enrich you and help you to become a great designer of your time; such as Charles Eames, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata,... yesterday, or probably Alfredo Häberli, Denis Santachiara, Marc Newson,... today.
	Charles Totaro, Olivia Grove, James Farran, Andrew Collins \| Sustain University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA, USA Age: 26 (Chad), 22 (James), 22 (Olivia), 23 (Andrew) Design Education: Chad: Industrial Design / The University of the Arts James: Industrial Design / The University of the Arts Olivia: BS Industrial Design, University of the Arts Andrew: BS Industrial Design, University of the Arts Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Chad: the ocean, technology, nature, mountains, and punk rock music. Mix it all up... James: -push the next -urban culture -tv -generation of fearless, deviant, technological rebel youths Olivia: There is no beginning or end to design - it continuously grows out of the past and reaches into the future, creating infinate connections inbetween. Your design heroes?: The inventor of duct tape(it has saved my life), CTjr, Mies Van der Rohe, Bruce Sterling, Matt Groening, DaVinci, Phillipe Stark Additional comments for the Core Audience: Chad: say heckno to techno.... James: "rock n roll and down with orange!" Andrew: Thanks to my partners on this project, the educators at UArts, and Chad for entering us.

	Christian Makela \| Bulk Code Industrial Design - Helsinki, Finland Age:30 Design Education:BA, industrial design (lahti institute of design) Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? I find it really fascinating seeing how stuff we just yesterday considered as sci-fi becomes part of our life today. It is all the more difficult to tell the difference between science fiction and real life. I take that setting not as a threat but a challenge and a great source of inspiration for lots of my work. Your design heroes?:People who are ready to push the limits in order to succeed. Additional comments for the Core Audience: trust your instincts
	(alphabetically listed by project)
	Ed McMullin, Tem Keuchle \| Air View Ikwita Design - San Jose, CA, USA Age: 40 (Ed McMullin), 27 (Tem Keuchle) Design Education: San Jose State University Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Making things that help people. Your design heroes?: My Dad, Leslie Spears, everyone who creates art in any form; traditional art, photographs, products, speeches, or when the team concept actually works. Anyone who works with energy, excitement, and elegance.
	Mike Nickel and Brett Vladika \| Digital Dingo Brooks Stevens Design - Grafton, WI, USA Age:28 (Mike), 30 (Brett) Design Education: Mike - Graduated from U. of Cincinnati, 1997, B.S. in Industrial Design Brett - Graduated from U. of Cincinnati, 1993, B.S. in Industrial Design Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Mike - Fast Cars, Fast Women, and Fat Checks. What else is there except, product that have a certain character to them. Products that have meaning, and are not just a skin job. I am inspired by solutions that change the way we look at a products and the function of a product, I-Mac, Anna Pepper Mill, Koziol Kitchen Utensils, Swingline Contura Stapler, Oxo, Ray Bowls, Ekco Clip'n Stay, and the list keeps going. It's products that mix new materials, new function, and a little bit of fun that inspire me. Brett - Belvidere Vodka, and anything phat, funky and sweet! Environmentally savvy -not conscious but savvy- design that flows into a karmically blessed nirvanic continuum. Your design heroes?: Mike - Stark, Karim Rashid, Mark Newson, and most of all Casey Ketterhagen of Big Johnson Outdoors Brett - Frank Lloyd Wright, the Eames combo, and not to be forgotten, Big Johnson Outdoor's very own, Raymond H. Klein II.
	Glen Clifton, Joe Wieck \| Kursk Sub-Sea Memorial ID-One - Austin, TX, USA Age: 31 (Glen), 27 (Joe) Design Education:Glen - BS ID, Joe - BS Mechanical Engineering @ Texas A&M University, MS Mechanical Engineering - Product Design and Development @ University of Texas Austin Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Inspiration is infinitely dynamic and fleeting. when you get it, capture it and act on it. today you've got about 12 seconds to do so or its gone.... Your design heroes?: All those anonymous industrial designers slaving away for big business everyday that add so much magic to our lives. .....and of-coarse these guys: Bill Moggridge Donald Judd Buckmeister Fuller Gaudi Marc Newson Jasper Morrison Phillipe Stark Shiro Kurumata Pininfarina Group Dieter Rams Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Additional comments for the Core Audience: Embrace passion and compassion whenever you can.
	Matthew Andrews \| Link University of Northumbria at Newcastle - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Age: 21 Design Education: I am a 3rd years Design for Industry student from the University of Northumbria. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? I take inspiration from everyday life. It is the challenge to improve what has gone before by exploring different directions and future possibilities in our ever changing world. Your design heroes?: I do not have any design 'heroes' as such but recently met Jonathan Ive of Apple and found him to be very inspiring. Additional comments for the Core Audience: For more examples of my work please visit: http://www.mattdesign.co.uk
	Rui Bernardini Azenha \| Piercing Eyewear Freelancer - Lisbon, Portugal Age:31 Design Education: I'm an art and design self student and a technical design professional with good knowledge of 3D-Design and materials application software, important for model conception and realistic photo images of future object prototypes (Autocad na 3dStudioMax). I have also important knowledge of image manipulation software, which provides me the production capacity of high quality presentations in all areas of my activity (Coreldraw and Photoshop). With self creativity allied with technical knowledge and constant observation, self study and research, i have the oportunity to be present in national and international design competitions. Since 1996, when I finished my Professional and Tenhnical Design Course that I work as Engeneering Designer. I have worked in many different areas such as Hydraulic Infrastructures, Metalic Stuctures, Concrete. At this moment i work for Railway Catenary System Engeneering since 1998. Beside this i always keep my mind open for invent and create new concepts for Industrial Design or Graphic Design as a Freelancer. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Piercing Eyewear is based in two sources of influence. The first is the piercing fashion that was brought to the developed countries as a new fashion wear and originally was borned and used since along time ago by some of the ancient African and Australian tribes. The second is the power and the atmosphere lived on the night life feasts that exist in the big cities of the world where Fashion style have the oportunity to emerge. All the things i create are inspired by all the visual sources that "flys" around me, a little bit like a painter artist. I capt all the information that i can, by all means that exist today and transform them in the way i think and please, always being concerned about new esthetical concepts and funcionalities Your design heroes?: Leonardo DaVinci (Invention and research) Antoni Gaudi (Architecture) M.C. Escher (Ilustration and research) Kadinski (Painter artist) Bauhaus (Design Development Institution) Fátima Lopes (Portuguese Fashion Design)
	Masayasu Date, David Flynt, Jay Kovacs \| Project SSV Art Center College of Design - Pasadena, CA, USA Age: 32 (Masayasu..pictured above), 28 (Jay), 35 (David) Design Education:Masayasu Marco Date - Art Center College of Design (Transportation Design major) David Flynt- Art Center College of Design (Product Design major) Jay Kovacs- Art Center College of Design (Product Design major) Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Masayasu Marco Date- life experience,research, and future vision. Sometimes it's an endless struggle and one day, it "clicks"! Jay Kovacs- Anything, Everything, and Nothing In Particular David Flynt- Muscle Cars, Snowboard/Skateboard culture, the letter X, Marine (as in underwater) life, the Simpsons, that little smile that creeps on someone's face when they first "connect" with a design that lets them do something that is normally outside their range of experience or understanding. Your design heroes?:Giorgetto Giugiaro, Syd Mead, Hayao Miyazaki, God, Marc Scepi, Tim Burton, Frank Lloyd Wright, and that guy at Astro.... Additional comments for the Core Audience:Please take a look at more of my work at http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/pods
	Peter Allen and Carla Murray \| Skinthetic KnoWear - Cataumet, MA, USA Age:32 (Peter), 30 (Carla) Design Education: Peter: BFA- University of Hartford [sculpture] 1989 Diploma- North Bennett Street School [18th and 19th furniture reproduction]1995 MFA- Cranbrook Academy of Design [3d-design]1999 Carla: BFA-California College of Arts and Crafts [industrial design]1997 MFA- Cranbrook Academy of Design [3d-design]2000 Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? The premise behind the collaboration of KnoWear is a multifaceted ideology. KnoWear finds it’s inspiration in the idea that technology allows one to be anywhere and nowhere and that home, work or leisure is solely dependent on where one can plug in. We are interested in bending and shaping technology as well as new and interesting materials into beautifully designed objects. We are a collaboration that is amorphous in nature where we tend to expand or condense according to the project in which we are involved. We are designers who are interested in not only the idea of concept but also how our ideas can be realized in everyday objects. Your design heroes?: Constantin Brancuzi for his ability to create objects that are pure uncompromised forms, which are timeless Hussan Chalayan for his ability to create work that is elegant and innovative, bridging a gap between fashion and product design Charles and Ray Eames for their ability to collaborate to create innovative ways to bring design objects to the masses Tim Berners-Lee because he has changed the way the world looks at design graphically, physically and virtually by writing the software that launched the World Wide Web in 1989 Marc Newson for making the blobject an every day object
	Peter Valois \| Soft System Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY, USA Age:N/A Design Education:Currently a senior Industrial Design student at Pratt Institute. Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? My ultimate goal is to foster an intimate and understanding relationship between people and the physical world. I consider all of the objects that inhabit our world to be individual personalities. As a designer, I wish to create warm, rich object-personlities with which people can buid lasting relationships. By creating a deep and innate understanding between a person and an object's qualities (function, material, shape, sound, smell, etc.) a loving bond will develop. Your design heroes?: Droog Design (the rubber sink battle begins)
	Romain Vollet \| Steambox UCE, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design - Birmingham, UK Age:21 Design Education:1997-2000: ENSAAMA, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliquées et des Métiers d'Arts; Paris (France) 2000: UCE, Institute of Art & Design; Birmingham (United Kingdom) Additional comments for the Core Audience: It's really interesting to notice nowadays this outstanding proliferation of online design contests. According to me, this new approach will enable large scale of cultural exchange, which is essential for a good designer with an extremely open-minded. That's why I'm very inspired by frequency travels all around these rich foreign cultures. Whatever its distance or period, near, far, antique, contemporary, each one has so much to enrich you and help you to become a great designer of your time; such as Charles Eames, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata,... yesterday, or probably Alfredo Häberli, Denis Santachiara, Marc Newson,... today.
	Charles Totaro, Olivia Grove, James Farran, Andrew Collins \| Sustain University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA, USA Age: 26 (Chad), 22 (James), 22 (Olivia), 23 (Andrew) Design Education: Chad: Industrial Design / The University of the Arts James: Industrial Design / The University of the Arts Olivia: BS Industrial Design, University of the Arts Andrew: BS Industrial Design, University of the Arts Tell us a few words about your design inspiration (not just for this project but overall)? Chad: the ocean, technology, nature, mountains, and punk rock music. Mix it all up... James: -push the next -urban culture -tv -generation of fearless, deviant, technological rebel youths Olivia: There is no beginning or end to design - it continuously grows out of the past and reaches into the future, creating infinate connections inbetween. Your design heroes?: The inventor of duct tape(it has saved my life), CTjr, Mies Van der Rohe, Bruce Sterling, Matt Groening, DaVinci, Phillipe Stark Additional comments for the Core Audience: Chad: say heckno to techno.... James: "rock n roll and down with orange!" Andrew: Thanks to my partners on this project, the educators at UArts, and Chad for entering us.