The 2023 Core77 Design Award Packaging category honors all graphic design, branding and structural designs related to the packaging of products. Examples include: primary or secondary packaging for Fast Moving Consumer Goods or premium brands, promotional packaging and gifting programs, limited editions, etc.

This year’s Core77 Design Awards Packaging team was led by Beau Oyler, CEO of Enlisted Design. Joining Oyler on the panel was Miri Chan, VP of Branding & Visual Design at Enlisted Design, Michelle Enright, Director of Packaging Experience & Visual Design at Sonos, Elle De Freitas, Founder + CEO of Wonderkind, James Krause, VP of Industrial Design at Aruliden, and Mackey Saturday, Principal at Mackey Saturday.

Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! You can view the honorees in all 25 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2023 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

A/V & Photography Equipment | Apps & Platforms | Branding & Identity | Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Emerging Technologies | Furniture & Lighting | Gaming | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Lifestyle Accessories | Packaging | Robotics | Speculative Design | Sports & Outdoors | Strategy & Research | Sustainability | Tools | Toys & Play | Transportation | Visual Communication | KeyShot Visualization Prize | Editor’s Choice

The 2023 Core77 Design Awards Interaction category honors interactive content and user interface design for websites, mobile devices and experiential installations. Examples include: software, mobile apps, interactive projections, products with embedded user interface, animations, simulations, robotics, etc.

This year’s Core77 Design Awards Apps & Platforms team was led by Margaret Lee, Leadership Coach at Design Dept. Joining Lee on the panel was Kim Bost, Product Design Manager, XD Leadership Team at Netflix, Ye-Jeong Kim, Head of Gmail UX at Google, Scott Lederer, UX Designer, and Farai Madzima, UX Manager at Shopify.

Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! You can view the honorees in all 25 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2023 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

A/V & Photography Equipment | Apps & Platforms | Branding & Identity | Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Emerging Technologies | Furniture & Lighting | Gaming | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Lifestyle Accessories | Packaging | Robotics | Speculative Design | Sports & Outdoors | Strategy & Research | Sustainability | Tools | Toys & Play | Transportation | Visual Communication | KeyShot Visualization Prize | Editor’s Choice

The 2023 Core77 Design Awards Apps & Platforms category honors web or mobile screen-based software programs designed for user-friendliness including mobile apps, websites, and computer programs.

This year’s Core77 Design Awards Apps & Platforms team was led by Margaret Lee, Leadership Coach at Design Dept. Joining Lee on the panel was Kim Bost, Product Design Manager, XD Leadership Team at Netflix, Ye-Jeong Kim, Head of Gmail UX at Google, Scott Lederer, UX Designer, and Farai Madzima, UX Manager at Shopify.

Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! You can view the honorees in all 25 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2023 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

A/V & Photography Equipment | Apps & Platforms | Branding & Identity | Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Emerging Technologies | Furniture & Lighting | Gaming | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Lifestyle Accessories | Packaging | Robotics | Speculative Design | Sports & Outdoors | Strategy & Research | Sustainability | Tools | Toys & Play | Transportation | Visual Communication | KeyShot Visualization Prize | Editor’s Choice

Dezeen Showroom: Spanish outdoor furniture brand Diabla has created a lightweight, stackable aluminium seat informed by the profile of popular plastic monobloc chairs.

Designed by OiKo Design, Plier chair has a seat and backrest made from four folded strips of powder-coated aluminium frame that sits on a sturdy tubular chassis that extends down on each corner to form the legs.

Diabla aimed to create a timeless yet robust chair that could be used across public and private areas both indoors and outdoors.

“Plier was conceived from the desire to design a small, stackable, single-material, recyclable, resistant and everyday chair that could be produced without using moulds and avoiding any complex industrial process,” said the brand.

Plier is easily moveable and weather-resistant to allow users to sit and enjoy unique outdoor settings, such as Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma‘s proposed addition to St. Maurice Cathedral in Angers, France. The extension comprises a colonnade of concentric stone archways.

Plier comes in playful pink and red finishes alongside neutrals that include white, grey, anthracite, sand and bronze.

Product: Plier
Designer: OiKo Design Office
Brand: Diabla
Contact: info@gandiablasco.com

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Our inspiring conversation with the self-described “evil genius” inventor and content creator

Behind more than 400 inventions over the last four years, serial creator Matty Benedetto—the founder of Unnecessary Inventions—is as prolific as he is entertaining and inspiring. A self-described “evil genius,” Benedetto works from a studio in Burlington, Vermont, solving problems, assembling unexpected creations and sharing content to millions of loyal fans on Instagram and TikTok. Benedetto makes for a thrilling guest on our latest episode of Design Tangents, where he provides insight on social media success, being authentic first and foremost and operating as a one-man company surrounded by nothing but ideas and his machines.

Benedetto’s entrepreneurialism began when he crochet ski hats—at age 13—for his friends. By the time he went to school for business and marketing, he already had his own company. Our paths first crossed in 2012, when we became obsessed with his cloth iPhone cables. “I am just jumping from one idea to the next at all times,” he tells COOL HUNTING. “Every few years I need to reinvent what I am doing.”

I see the final image of the invention in my head before I start making it. I work backward

After his first invention when viral on Reddit, Benedetto volleyed his online success into a series of (often silly) problem-solving pieces. “All of my inventions I create, I see the final image of the invention in my head before I start making it. I work backward,” he explains. These have ranged from the Burrito Bumper (which funnels spillage into a taco) to a Tic Tac organizer (which stifles the jangling sound inside a case), as well as Airsticks (AirPods paired with chopsticks) and Gator Grip “Croc” gloves (which led to a cease and desist letter). None of these have ever been for sale. That’s not the point. “With the internet these days, you have to do something that’s unexpected to be noticed,” he adds. “Everything’s been done a million different ways, a million different times.”

Benedetto often makes the astounding possible—and encourages others to do suspend disbelief and do the same. “A lot of people give themselves false roadbloacks to bringing something to life that they want to see. I think I ignore all that,” he says. With a new board game on the market (after a year and a half in development), Benedetto also has a product people can take home. Learn about it all at this episode of Design Tangents now.

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Design Tangents is presented by Genesis and produced and edited by SANDOW Design Group. Special thanks to the podcast production team: Rob Schulte, Hannah Viti, Wize Grazette and Samantha Sager and to Amber Lin for creating our show art. Discover more design podcasts from SURROUND at surroundpodcasts.com.