As of today, there are only four weeks left to enter the Core77 Design Awards—we've even integrated a handy countdown clock into the Core77 homepage so you don't forget that time is winding down...
Of course, that's still plenty of time for you to put together a kickass entry, and we've got awesome news for those of you who are entering the Consumer Products and/or Equipment categories: We're pleased to announce the final two jury captains for the 2013 Core77 Design Awards program, and we think you'll share our excitement in welcoming these two design luminaries, as well as the 15 others we've already announced—all in one place!
Update, March 5: Check out the Jury Team lineups, hand-picked by our Jury Captains.
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Judging location: Frankfurt, Germany
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Oliver Grabes, Jury Captain Head of Design at Braun
Since September 2009, Professor Oliver Grabes is the new Head of Braun Design and is spearheading Braun's new design approach: "the strength of pure." His approach is to translate heritage into the future; taking Braun's values and world famous design heritage and combining it with modern technologies. His approach creates coherent products that are easy to use, useful and well designed. High quality is paramount to ensure a long-lasting product that creates a positive product experience over years. In addition to being Head of Braun Design, he is the chairman of the jury for the BraunPrize 2012 with the theme of "Genius Design for a better everyday."
EQUIPMENT
Judging location: Shanghai, China
Image via DMI
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Duncan Trevor-Wilson, Jury Captain Design Manager at GE Healthcare
Duncan Trevor-Wilson is the global design manager for emerging markets at GE Healthcare based in Shanghai. Responsible for driving Strategic design solutions to developing nations healthcare challenges. Formerly he was a design manager at Motorola consumer experience division Beijing and ResMed Australia. In addition he has been awarded multiple design awards and patents for his innovative creations.
Hit the jump to see all of the previously-announced jury captains!
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INTERIORS & EXHIBITIONS Judging location: Mexico City, Mexico
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Andrés Mier Y Teran, Jury Captain Principal at Grupo MYT
Andrés Mier Y Teran is Founder and Principal at MYT Diseño, an architecture, design and construction firm based both in New York and Mexico City. MYT Diseño started off as a design and build firm in Mexico City, but has evolved to encapsulate almost all aspects of design in a project. From sketching a new concept to it's final construction, as well as identity, marketing, graphic and industrial design, the firm now is able to create a holistic design experience. Some of the most notable works by the firm in Mexico include the concept for Soumaya Museum interiors, The Monument to the Mexican Revolution, La Imperial and Moshi Moshi. And in New York, Taka Taka, Antojeria La Popular, Vive la Crepe restaurants and Stella Filante store.
Mier Y Teran studied Interior Architecture at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, furniture design in Copenhagen and Architecture in UNAM, in Mexico City. He worked in Tokyo and in Paris with Philippe Starck before earning a Masters Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2008. Andrés has been frequently published, was awarded the gold medal for a five-year trajectory in Interior Architecture by the Mexican National Association of Interior Design in 2006, and more recently the 2011 Prix Met Penninghen for his Professional Trajectory 2001-2011 by ESAG in France.
INTERACTION Judging location: London, United Kingdom
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Anab Jain, Jury Co-Captain Director at Superflux
Anab is a Director at Superflux and founded the studio in 2009. Leading the Consultancy's client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab's self-initiated conceptual projects, she hopes to realize the studio's vision as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. She has led interaction design projects for clients such as such as Microsoft Research, Sony, Nokia and the Prince's Foundation. Originally from India and educated at the National Institute of Design, Anab gained her MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has been honored as a TED Fellow and has won awards from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO and ICSID. She has presented her work at the MoMA New York, National Museum of China and London Design Festival, amongst others. She lectures at various design schools around the world and has presented at conferences such as LIFT, PICNIC, Playful, SIGGRAPH and FuturEverything.
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Jon Ardern, Jury Co-Captain Director at Superflux
Jon is Director and Lead Creative Technologist at Superflux. He gained an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2006, with a distinction for his dissertation on 'Emergence' and its role in design. Jon leads the creative and technological development of projects at Superflux. In this role, he has worked with a diverse range of clients such as Sony, Snibbe Interactive, Demotix and the Government of UAE, whilst experimenting with new technologies such as augmented reality, prosthetic vision and synthetic biology in the studio's Lab. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA New York and V&A London, and has won prizes from UNESCO and New York's Social Design Network. He has lectured at the Architectural Association London, MAD Faculty Genk, Belgium and Kitchen Budapest Hungary.
SERVICE Judging location: Milan, Italy
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Ezio Manzini, Jury Co-Captain Coordinator at DESIS Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability)
For more than two decades, Ezio has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Most recently, his interests have focused on social innovation and he started, and coordinates DESIS, which is an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability.
Throughout his professional life, he has been at the Politecnico di Milano. Parallel to this, he collaborated with several international schools. Currently, he is Honorary Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, Jiangnan University in Wuxi, COPPE-UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York.
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Anna Meroni, Jury Co-Captain Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano
Anna Meroni is an Architect with a Ph.D in Design. She is also the Coordinator of the POLIMI-DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Assistant Professor in Service and Strategic Design at the School of Design, she is part of the board and faculty of the Master of Product Service System Design, Co-Director of the Master in Strategic Design and Director of the Master in Social and Collaborative Housing. In her role as a visiting professor in universities worldwide, she has more than a decade of experience as investigator in research projects. Her focus is design for sustainability, with emphasis on design activism for social innovation.
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES Judging location: Århus, Denmark
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Simon Kavanagh, Jury Captain KP International Development & Education Design at Kaospilots
Born in Dublin, Simon Kavanagh received his B.A. in Art and Design Education (a joint degree which incorporates three years of Visual Communication) at 21. For the next six years, Simon worked as a Creative Director in an Irish Multimedia company, Interact. It was during these years that he designed, programmed or managed approximately 600 multimedia titles in the business, educational, IT, online-Gaming, leisure and banking sectors for such clients as Oracle, Microsoft, Chase, Reuters, Esat (02), and Masterfoods and set up divisions in NYC and Paris. He then became a consultant in R&D for Windmill Lane Studios in the areas of Interactive Television, Content Management systems and online gaming before moving to Paris to further his studies in digital media and art. He re-embarked on the educational path in Shanghai where he lectured a British degree in new media, design and culture for three years, until he sought and found the most experiential and leadership education in the world, Kaospilots. He continues to explore alternative approaches to education and pedagogy with the long term goal of transferring this knowledge back into art and design education.
STRATEGY & RESEARCH Judging location: San Francisco, United States
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Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque, Jury Captain Executive Creative Director at SYPartners
Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque is responsible for the originality and creativity of SYPartners' work; setting the overall creative vision for the firm and leading her team of multidisciplinary designers to conceptualize and bring to life transformative strategies, stories and ideas. She also plays an active role in the work itself—helping the Gap reimagine its store environment and customer experience, assisting GE with cultivating a culture of innovation, and working with IBM to design the award-winning THINK exhibit. Susana is also a member of the board of directors on AIGA and was recognized by GDUSA as one of 25 "People to Watch in 2012."
SOFT GOODS
Judging location: New York City, United States
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Jeff "jeffstaple" Ng, Jury Captain Founder and Creative Director at Staple Design
With his hands in just about everything, Jeff Ng, aka jeffstaple, has masterfully created an entire world of communicating through design. Not known solely for his massive sneaker collection, the founder/owner of Staple Design, Staple Clothing and the Reed Space is also a graphic, web and clothing designer, artist, DJ, writer and entrepreneur. He is also responsible for the design work for companies such as Nike, Burton, Converse, UNIQLO, Timberland, New Balance, Versace, Royal Elastics, Triple Five Soul, The Fader Magazine, The Gap, Sony Playstation and Apple Computers.
Perhaps Staple's most famous Staple product were the NYC Pigeon Dunks, a pair of sneakers that produced in collaboration with Nike. There were only around 200 pairs released and they were exclusively released at Reed Space, his retail store and art gallery. They were an immediate success, and Staple Pigeons currently sell for over USD$2000. Ten years later, Staple Design work isn't found just in New York City, but internationally on all forms of media imaginable.
PACKAGING
Judging location: Corseaux, Switzerland
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Lars Wallentin, Jury Captain Packaging designer, Writer and Founder of packagingsense.com
Born in Sweden and educated at the Graphic Institute in Stockholm, Lars Wallentin moved in 1964 to Switzerland to the Nestlé Headquarters where he was responsible, during almost 40 years, for the development of creative design solutions for strategic brands such as Nestlé, Nescafé, Maggi, Buitoni, Nesquik and KitKat. He became a reference for many young marketing people as he taught design, communication and packaging around the world.
Lars Wallentin, a true European as a speaker of several of its languages, is an avid jazz-fan, former table tennis champion and an amateur photographer. He now spends his life writing about design and packaging and consulting various consumer goods companies. Furthermore, he is a well-respected speaker on package design and sits on several design juries. His device, which clearly comes through in his teaching, can be summarized in the three words: simplify, surprise and synergize.
SOCIAL IMPACT
Judging location: Cape Town, South Africa
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Ravi Naidoo, Jury Captain Founder of Design Indaba
Ravi Naidoo is the Founder and Managing Director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and marketing company, which he founded in 1994. His main business interest has always been on media, creativity, marketing and project management. Ravi is possibly best known for establishing the international Design Indaba, which has become recognized as one of the world's leading design institutions through its flagship conference and expo annually held in Cape Town.
SPECULATIVE
Judging location: London, United Kingdom
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Anthony Dunne, Jury Co-Captain Professor and Head of Programme of Design Interactions at Royal College of Art Partner at Dunne & Raby
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London. He is also a Partner in the design studio, Dunne & Raby. His projects with Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Their projects have been exhibited and published internationally and are in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Frac Ile-de-France and Fnac. They have published two books: Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and Hertzian Tales (MIT Press, 2006).
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Fiona Raby, Jury Co-Captain Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Partner at Dunne & Raby
Fiona Raby is a Partner in the design partnership Dunne & Raby, established in 1994. She is Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and a Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London. Their work has been exhibited at MOMA, the Pompidou Centre and the Science Museum in London and is in the permanent collections of MOMA, V&A, FRAC and FNAC. They have published two books: Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and Hertzian Tales (MIT Press, 2006).
FOOD DESIGN
Judging location: Milan, Italy
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Francesca Sarti, Jury Captain Creative Director at Arabeschi di Latte
Francesca Sarti is an architect with a passion for conviviality. After working in the art world, she founded the food design collective Arabeschi di Latte in 2001. Since college, she has been exploring the food world, its fascination and its power to create situations and relationships, down to its darkest side with the Underkitchen platform. Together with Arabeschi di Latte, she has created many food concepts and pop-up cafés around the world, combining food and design and contributing to shape the actual meaning of this binomial. Besides the activity of food and the creative consultancy, Francesca Sarti gives lectures and runs workshop in many universities, recently the Pasta Power workshop at ECAL, in Lausanne.
FURNITURE & LIGHTING
Judging location: Paris, France
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Matali Crasset Jury Captain Founder and Creative Director at Matali Crasset Productions
Matali Crasset is by training an industrial designer; a graduate of the Ateliers - E.N.S.C.I. (Workshops - National Higher School of Industrial Design). At the beginning of 2000, after her initial experience with Denis Santachiara in Italy and with Philippe Starck in France, she set up her own studio in Paris called Matali Crasset productions in a renovated former printing firm in the heart of Belleville. She considers design to be research, working from an off-centered position allowing both to serve daily routines and trace future scenarios. Her work revolves around searching for new coordination processes and formulating new logics in life. She defines this search as an accompaniment towards the contemporary.
Always in search of new territories to explore, she collaborates with eclectic worlds, from crafts to electronic music, from the textiles industry to fair trade, realizing projects in set design, furniture, architecture, graphics and collaborations with artists, young furniture-making companies, municipalities and communes. This experience acquired over the years has led her to currently work on more participative projects, on a local and global level, both in rural and urban settings. It's ultimately the core question of living together, which defines her imaginative designs, writings and the sense of Matali's work.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Judging location: New York, USA
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Eddie Opara, Jury Captain Partner at Pentagram
Eddie Opara studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as an art director at 2x4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005. He joined Pentagram's New York office as partner in 2010.
His clients have included the Menil Foundation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Queens Museum of Art, Prada, St. Regis Hotels, Morgan Stanley, New York University, UCLA, Grimshaw Architects and Princeton Architectural Press. Opara has won numerous awards including a Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club and honors from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and I.D. magazine. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has appeared in publications such as Archis, Surface, Graphis and I.D.
Opara is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art and teaches narrative design at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Columbia University School of Architecture and the Yale University School of Art. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, on the board of the New York Chapter of AIGA and was recently featured in Ebony Magazine's Power 100 list for the December 2011 / January 2012 issue. Most recently, Opara was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012.
TRANSPORTATION
Judging location: London, United Kingdom
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Paul Priestman, Jury Captain Designer and Co-Founding Director at Priestmangoode
Paul Priestman is a Designer and Co-Founding Director of leading multidisciplinary design consultancy Priestmangoode.
Priestman studied Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins and at the Royal College of Art. He was a member of the UK Design Council and Chair of the Design Sector Skills Panel from 2004 to 2006. He was also President of the Design Business Association from 2001 to 2003, and a member of the D&AD Executive from 2005 to 2007. He is currently a member of the Royal College of Art Council. In 2010, Priestman was selected to represent the UK's creative industries on the Prime Minister's Trade Delegation to China, flying the flag for British design around the world.
He is a leading voice in the industry and an experienced speaker on the subject of design and innovation. Last year, the Evening Standard—London's leading newspaper—voted Priestman one of London's 1000 most influential people of 2012.
WRITING & COMMENTARY
Judging location: London, United Kingdom
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Justin McGuirk, Jury Captain Writer, Critic and Curator
Justin McGuirk is a writer, critic and curator based in London. He is the director of Strelka Press, the publishing arm of the Strelka Institute in Moscow, and the design consultant to Domus. He has been the design columnist for The Guardian and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. He is currently working on a book about activist architecture and social housing in Latin America.
DIY
Judging location: Sebastopol, USA
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Goli Mohammadi, Jury Captain Senior Editor of MAKE Magazine
Goli Mohammadi is Senior Editor of MAKE magazine and has worked on MAKE since the first issue hit newsstands in 2005. Covering the vast and amazing world of DIY provides her with endless brain candy and gives her hope in the future of the human race. Maker Faire is, without a doubt, the most inspirational event she's had the pleasure of working. Born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Chicago, she has forever been amazed by the complexities of language, and the cultural differences therein. Goli is a word nerd who particularly loves to geek out on how emerging technology affects the lexicon as a whole. When she's not fawning over perfect word choices, she can be found on the nearest mountain, finding the ideal backcountry lake or hunting for snow to feed her snowboard addiction.
It's a pretty solid crew if we say so ourselves, and we haven't even announced each of their selections for full jury teams yet... Stay tuned to Core77 and Core77DesignAwards.com or follow @Core77Awards for more news and updates... and good luck with those entries!
The Core77 Design Awards proudly offers 17 progressive categories honoring the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. From Consumer Products to DIY, Service Design to Writing & Commentary, the Core77 Design Awards provides designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts. We also offer 15 designated student sections within our 17 categories. And with globally distributed jury teams, the individuals who will be considering your work are expert practitioners in the field.
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