Hasta La Ideas

The extended deadline for the Core77 Design Awards is upon us! You’ve got all day today, Saturday and Sunday to work on creating an award-winning entry, but come midnight on Sunday, April 6, we won’t be accepting any more submissions. Firms, we hope to see your submissions before you head out to enjoy your weekends!

Remember, we’re offering a pre-released flocked black-edge edition of our book “Designing Here/Now” for anyone who enters this year’s program. For $10, you can have your own modern design anthology featuring over 500 past Core77 Design Awards honorees.

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Hopefully you’ve had enough time to submit your designs to the Core77 Design Awards after we extended the deadline to midnight on April 6. If the chance to win one of our awesome DIY trophies—which you can use to make giant Design Award chocolate bars—isn’t incentive enough, we’re offering a limited edition pre-release of our brand new “Designing Here/Now” book. You can get your own copy for $10 with any Core77 Design Awards entry. The flocked black-edge book is currently only available to 2014 entrants and features 448 pages filled with 500 past program honorees.

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If 101 days wasn’t enough time to put together your submission for the Core77 Design Awards—hey, we’re not judging—you’re in luck! We’ve extended our deadline to April 6 for those of you looking for a bit of extra time to submit your work. Take a few minutes (now that you have lots of those) to get to know our jury teams, rules and regulations and the 17 categories for both students and professionals.

We’re happy to give you a second chance at getting your work seen by some of the coolest names in the industry. After all, there are a lot of people who’ve been given a second chance—just take a look at Steve Jobs or Robert Downey Jr.

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Some people just work better under the pressure of a looming deadline. If you’re one of those people, this reminder is for you! Tomorrow is the last day to submit your design for the 2014 Core77 Design Awards—make sure you enter your work before 9pm EST. You’ve met the juries, the categories are all laid out and we’ve shared the top ten reasons for entering. Now the only thing left to do is to head on over to the website and submit your design. If a day doesn’t seem like enough time to you, here’s a list of five things that can be accomplished in the same amount of time that might flip your attitude around:

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You’ve already met the majority of this year’s Core77 Design Awards jury captains in our first two announcements (here and here). As you know, these are the people that will be critiquing your work when you enter the Design Awards, which you should definitely do before March 20th. We’re pleased to round out our search for the most prominent voices in contemporary design with the final five captains: Alongside their handpicked jury teams, these all-stars will be judging the Consumer Products, Furniture & Lighting, Soft Goods, Interaction and Transportation categories.

Never fear—there’s more excitement to be had. Stay tuned for our final jury team announcement coming this week.

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