Today is the day! We are excited to announce the launch of our second annual Core77 Design Awards! We are officially open for entry and we want to see your most original and impactful design projects from 2011.
It's great to be back as we further our celebration of excellence, enterprise and intent. Last year, we launched a unique program that addressed many of the challenges of the typical design award paradigm. Our second year builds upon the successes of our inaugural year and we're excited to bring you our line-up for year two. The same values persist—leveraging online scale, increasing transparency and decreasing plane fuel—but we've refined the recipe to make the awards program more inclusive and celebratory.
Along with a brand new jury, we have some exciting plans for this season:
Here's our full list of entry categories: Consumer Products, Equipment, Soft Goods, Furniture & Lighting, Interiors & Exhibitions, Visual Communication, Packaging, Interaction, Service, Transportation, Social Impact, Educational Initiatives, Strategy & Research, Writing & Commentary (NEW), Speculative, DIY and Food Design (NEW).
But our categories aren't the only thing to write home about. We have a new global line-up of 20 Jury Captains (with one more to be confirmed). Not only are they true experts in their fields, but they represent 13 cities across 8 countries. Stay tuned as our jury captains announce their full jury teams.
Consumer Products Jury Captain: Nicolas Roope Founder and Owner of HULGER / PLUMEN Founder and Owner of Poke
Judging Location: London, United Kingdom
Equipment Jury Captain: Renke He Dean and Professor at School of Design at Hunan University
Judging Location: Changsha, Hunan Province, China
Soft Goods Jury Captain: Michael DiTullo Creative Director at frog design
Judging Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Furniture & Lighting Jury Captain: Zoë Ryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago
Judging Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Interiors & Exhibitions Jury Captain coming soon.
Visual Communication Jury Co-Captains: Min and Sulki Choi Co-Directors of Sulki and Min Professors at U. of Seoul / Kaywon School of Art & Design
Judging Location: Seoul, Korea
Packaging Jury Captain: Laurent Hainaut Co-Founder and Partner of Raison Pure Design Group Founder, President and CEO of Raison Pure NYC
Judging Location: Paris, France
Interaction Jury Co-Captain: Matt Webb, Jack Schulze and Matt Jones Principals of BERG
Judging Location: London, United Kingdom
Service Jury Captain: Panthea Lee Co-Founder and Principal of Reboot
Judging Location: New York, NY, USA
Transportation Jury Captain: Jay Rogers President, CEO and Co-Founder of Local Motors, Inc.
Judging Location: Chandler, Arizona, USA
Social Impact Jury Captain: Tasos Calantzis CEO of Terrestrial
Judging Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Educational Initiatives Jury Captain: Mariana Amatullo Founder of Designmatters at Art Center College of Design
Judging Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
Strategy & Research Jury Captain: Lorraine Justice Dean of College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology
Judging Location: Rochester, NY, USA
Writing & Commentary Jury Captain: Alice Twemlow Chair of MFA in Design Criticism at School of Visual Arts
Judging Location: New York, NY, USA
Speculative Jury Captain: Bruce Sterling Author of "Beyond the Beyond" at Wired
Judging Location: TBD
DIY Jury Captain: Becky Stern Founder of Sternlab
Judging Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Food Design Jury Captain: Marc Brétillot Food Designer
Judging Location: Paris, France
All results will be posted in our 2012 Awards Gallery and Winners, Runners-up and Notable entries will receive recognition in the Core77 blog, as well as a spot in our awards print publication. To see who won last year, check out the 2011 Winners Gallery and also see the range of video testimonials that were submitted.
Register early and we'll send you the limited-edition 2012 call-for-entries poster/wall calendar. If you enter by our Earlybird deadline of March 13, you'll also save 20% on your entry fee.
Visit the Core77 2012 Design Awards website to register today.
To stay up to date with the program and developments, join our Facebook page and Twitter. And get cracking with those entries to be part of the most inclusive and celebratory design awards program of the digital age.
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