Core77 Design Award Winners Are In!
NEW YORK – The much-anticipated winners of the first annual Core77 Design Awards have been announced. Winners in 15 categories were chosen by a dedicated group of experts across the globe, and were announced via live web broadcasts from the jurors’ home cities, ranging from Austin to Ahmedabad.
After 16 years of serving the global design community every day, Core77 launched this annual celebration of their best creative work. Core77 is addressing many of the challenges of the design award paradigm, building upon the very things that can make it great – leveraging online scale, increasing transparency, and decreasing plane fuel in the process. Some of the most renowned names in the design industry took part in the awards. Professional winners and runners-up are highlighted below (or notables in the absence of a runner-up); a complete list of winners, runners-up, notables and student accolades can be found at www.Core77DesignAwards.com.
PRODUCTS/EQUIPMENT
Winner: Load Carrier for Labour by Vikram Dinubhai Panchal – National Institute of Design (NID)
Runner-up: TikTok+LunaTik watch kits by MINIMAL – Scott Wilson
Runner-up: Makedo by Makedo – Paul Justin
Jury Captain: Julie Lasky – Editor of Change Observer
Team Members: Harry Allen, Rama Chorpash, Zoe Coombes and Maria Popova
FURNITURE/LIGHTING
Winner: Herman Miller SAYL chair by fuseproject – Yves Behar
Notable: Jumpseat Auditorium Seating by Ziba Design – Sohrab Vossoughi, Mehdi Mojtabavi, Dave Knaub and Pierre Harper
Notable: node chair by IDEO and Steelcase
Jury Captain: Max Fraser – Editor & Publisher of London Design Guide
Team Members: Anthony Dickens, Laura Houseley, James Mair and Libby Sellers
SOFT GOODS/APPAREL
Winner: Bespoke Fairing by Bespoke Innovations – Scott Summit
Runner-up: GRID-IT! By Orange22 Design Lab – Dario Antonioni
Jury Captain: Peter Kallen – Design Director of Nau
Team Members: Damon Clegg, Jennifer Dzienis, Patrick Long and Emily Ryan Stark
GRAPHICS/BRANDING/IDENTITY
Winner: OCAD University Visual Identity by Bruce Mau Design
Runner-up: Beirut Exhibition Center by Mary Choueiter with L.E.FT Architects
Jury Captain: Steven Heller – Author/Writer and Co-Chair of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts
Team Members: Arem Duplessis, Mark Randall, Paula Scher and Bonnie Siegler
PACKAGING
Winner: PUMA Clever Little Bag by fuseproject – Yves Behar, Josh Morenstein, Nick Cronan and Seth Murray of fuseproject and GBH
Runner-up: Scanwood by the Goodmorning Technology Team
Jury Captain: Mark Christou – Creative Director of Pearlfisher
Team Members: Josh Handy, Joe Marianek, Marianne Rosner Klimchuk and Melanie Wiesenthal
INTERACTIVE/MOBILE/WEB
Winner: Bell Labs – Innovation Whiteboard by Potion – Phillip R. Tiongson
Runner-up: Temptd by frog design
Jury Captain: Jon Kolko – Executive Director of Design Strategy of Thinktiv and Founder & Director of the Austin Center of Design
Team Members: Jan Moorman, Todd Wilkens and Gregg Wygonik
SERVICE DESIGN
Winner: OpenIDEO by IDEO
Runner-up: HackFwd by IDEO & Lars Hinrichs
Jury Captain: Fran Samalionis – Innovation Coach for BT Financial Group
Team Members: Rod Farmer, Damian Kernahan and Ian McDonald
INTERIORS/EXHIBITION
Winner: Exhale Pavilion by Phu Hoang Office & Rachely Rotem Studio
Runner-up: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas by Rockwell Group & The LAB
Jury Co-Captain: Astrid Klein – Co-Director of Klein Dytham architecture (KDa)
Jury Co-Captain: Mark Dytham – Co-Director of Klein Dytham architecture (KDa)
Team Members: Momoko Kishino, Hideyuki Nakayama and Jean Snow
TRANSPORTATION
Winner: Mission R Electric Superbike by Motonium Design – Timothy Prentice
Notable: Skatecycle by Brooklyn Workshop – Alon Karpman
Jury Captain: Lars Holme Larsen – Co-founder of KiBiSi and Founder of Kilo Design
Team Members: Peter Ingwersen, Nille Juul-Sørensen, Jens Martin Skibsted, Frederik Otteson and Kristian Von Bengtson
STRATEGY/RESEARCH
Winner: Bedsider by IDEO
Runner-up: Eton Design Strategy by Whipsaw – Dan Harden with Sam Benavidez, Hiro Teranishi
Jury Captain: Mark Vanderbeeken – Senior Partner, Strategi Communications, Experientia
Team Members: Monica Dalla Riva, Eva Teruzzi and Lowie Vermeersch
DESIGN EDUCATION INITIATIVES
Winner: Sticks + Stones by Mark Biddle, Audra Buck-Coleman, Ann McDonald
Runner-up: Studio H by Project H Design
Jury Captain: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall – Associate Professor in Design Anthropology and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at Swinburne University
Team Members: Dr. Deirdre Barron, Dr. Herman Pi’Ikea Clark, Vince Dziekan and Russell Kennedy
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
Winner: 4th Amendment Wear by Matthew Ryan, 4th Amendment
Runner-up: Preserve Toothbrush by Preserve Products and Continuum
Runner-up: How Many Bench by les Sismo designers Frédéric Lecourt and Antoine Fenoglio
Jury Captain: Ashoke Chatterjee – Development Volunteer and Former Director, National Institute of Design
Team Members: Anil K. Gupta, Dr. Vikram Parmar, Suchitra Sheth and H. Kumar Vyas
DIY/HACK/MOD
Winner: Tall Furniture by Robert Turek
Runner-up: Solar Puff by Studio Unite – Alice Minsoo Chun
Runner-up: Propane Tank Bench by Colin Selig
Jury Co-Captain: Christy Canida – Community & Marketing Director at Instructables
Jury Co-Captain: Eric Wilhelm – CEO of Instructables & Co-founding Partner of Squid Labs
Team Members: Simone Davalos, Arwen O’Reilly Griffith and Jeffrey McGrew
SPECULATIVE OBJECTS/CONCEPTS
Winner: Knarr Cargo Airship by Rune Kirt & Mades Thomsenark
Runner-up: Modwells – personal modules for wellness by Artefact – Jennifer Darmour with Johanna Schoemaker and Verena Lugmayr
Runner-up: High Tech Vanitas by les Sismo – Frédéric Lecourt and Antoine Fenoglio
Jury Captain: Branko Lukic – Designer, Author, Founder of NONOBJECT Design & Innovation Studio
Team Members: Dominika Nell Applova, James Auger, Banny Banerjee, Nebojsa Rogic and Steve Takayama
NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY
Winner: LaundryPod by the RKS Design Team
Runner-up: Ping by Studio Sophisti – Wouter Reeskamp and Tijn Kooijmans
Runner-up: EasyTail by Bresslergroup – Mathieu Turpault and David Schiff
Jury Captain: Aric Chen – Design Writer and Creative Director of Beijing Design Week
Team Members: Ben Hughes, Ou Ning and Tewa Srilaklang
Through the use of live announcement broadcasts, video testimonials, distributed jury teams, progressive categories, and social media interaction, the Core77 Design Awards has redefined award programming for the digital age.The inaugural trophy is as innovative as the awards itself; designed by Rich Brilliant Willing and sponsored by Motorola Prototyping Services, winners will receive a trophy that creatively celebrates the spirit of teamwork.
To see the full results and features of this year’s program, visit www.Core77DesignAwards.com.