Welcome to the second leg of the Core77 Design-Athlon, where designers flex their design-y muscles! Play along by taking the following brief and mocking up your ideas. The emphasis here is on exploration and problem-solving – translating concepts into physical form, ideally at a 1:1 scale where all the context of real-world use can inform the process.

Our first #c77prototyping challenge is "A Lunch Box for Adults" here is the Brief:

Budget. Diet. Schedule. An adult lunch is defined by restrictions – either embrace or escape these realities of a modern work lunch through physical ideation and iteration. Maquette, prototype, sketch-model, or buck – we are looking for quick form & use exploration of a lunch box. Choose a scenario and ideate quickly, work through it with your hands and eyes, build quickly, find a rhythm and let the process guide you to a resolution. It is not about the destination; this is the journey at the heart of design - take a pic to document your path and post it!

For our prototyping leg of the competition we have special guest-star judge Julie Arrivé of Map to help us pick winners!

Prototyping is how a concept meets the real world and with the Design-Athlon it serves as a bridge between the first leg, sketching, and the final and upcoming leg, rendering. We'd like to slow the pace down here – each challenge is (approximately) 2 weeks long.

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How To Enter

1. Follow us on Instagram

2. Explore the concept of "A Lunch Box for Adults" via prototyping and take a picture of your process

3. Post your picture to Instagram, posting must tag us, @core77, and include the hashtags #c77prototyping, #c77challenge

Good luck!

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Rules

• The contest ends Sunday, July 21st – 11:59PM – EDT . Winner and runner-ups will be announced within 30 days of close.

• Multiple entries are permitted but a participant can not have more than one winning entry per challenge.

• Winning entries will be selected by a panel of design professional(s) and Core77 staff based on skill, presentation and ideas.

• The contest is hosted by Core77 and there are no eligibility restrictions.

• This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram.

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To learn more about our entire Summer-long design skill series, check out our announcement of the Core77 Design-Athlon.

Greenery pic by Dose Juice