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Jury Team from L to R: Lorraine Justice, Katherine Bennett, Don Carr, Tim Fletcher

Over the next week, we will be giving you a 24-hour reminder to set your clocks for the live broadcast of this year’s Core77 Design Awards winners for each category. Please note, that all broadcast times and dates are Eastern Time.

Jury Captain

LORRAINE JUSTICE
Dean of College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology
Lorraine Justice was appointed Dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in 2011. Justice has worked in higher education for more than 20 years. For the past six years, she has served as the director of the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Under her leadership, the school has emerged as one of the top 30 design schools in the world and one of the top four Asian design programs. Prior to leading PolyU’s design school, Justice headed the industrial design program at Georgia Tech and served for several years at Ohio State University as professor of visual communication. A native of Pennsylvania, Justice obtained her BFA from Edinboro University and her master’s in design and Ph.D. in communications from Ohio State.

Jury Team

KATHERINE BENNETT
Associate Professor of Industrial Design, Humanities and Design Science at Art Center College of Design
Katherine specializes in understanding and analyzing user experiences to discover viable design opportunities. Faculty at Art Center since 1988, she played a key role in integrating research into the studio courses and teaches advanced qualitative methods to industrial design grads and undergrads. Katherine has worked with Henry Dreyfuss Associates, Hauser Associates, Don Chadwick, Saul Bass and the Mega/Erg think tank, and has developed designs ranging from laboratory and business equipment to tableware, gas stations, office and residential furniture and consumer products for clients including Herman Miller, Avery Dennison and Johnson Controls.

DON CARR
Professor and Senior COLAB Fellow at Syracuse University Department of Design
Don Carr was appointed Senior COLAB Fellow for the Syracuse University Department of Design in 2011. Prior to this appointment, he headed the SU Industrial and Interaction Design program for 14 years. He was recently named as the inaugural recipient of the Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award for collaborative and interdisciplinary work in design education and a 2012 Chancellor’s Citation. Previous to his tenure at SU, he worked as a Designer in the U.S. and Europe and has received numerous awards for his conceptual design explorations. Carr obtained a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

TIM FLETCHER
Business Development Manager at Daedalus
Tim Fletcher joined Daedalus as Business Development Manager in November of 2009. He develops relationships with new clients and also develops and participates in Business Model design projects. Previously he taught industrial design and design thinking at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His background in design and new product development spans both large and small corporations as well as consulting. Tim has worked in the consumer and commercial electronics, infant products and sporting goods industries. He has been working with manufacturers and clients in Asia since 1989. He holds 14 design patents and 4 utility patents worldwide. He received his Bachelors in industrial design from North Carolina State University in 1989 and his Masters of Design (Advanced Strategies) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008.

Special thanks to the incredible jury team who worked on judging this year’s STRATEGY & RESEARCH category!

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We are live for the Writing & Commentary category for the Core77 Design Awards! Jury Captain Alice Twemlow is announcing their winning selections from New York, NY. Tune in now to hear directly from the jury and participate in our design celebration!

STUDENT
Winner
The Intertwining—Bodies and Spaces in the Aftermath of Argentina’s Dirty War

Runners-Up
Dancing What You Can’t See

Notables
Monster Soup—Making the Invisible Visible

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We are live for the Food Design category for the Core77 Design Awards! Marc Brétillot and Earlwyn Covington are announcing their winning selections from Paris, France. Tune in now to hear directly from the jury and participate in our design celebration!

PROFESSIONAL
Winner
Edible Containers – Diane Bisson

Runner-Up
Fresh Moves Mobile Market

Notables
Precious Food – Transplant
Sugarchair

STUDENT
Winner
CityGrill

Runners-Up
Ento – The Art of Eating Insects

Notables
Real Food Farm Campaing
Plant – (NASA)

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We are live for the VISUAL COMMUNICATION category of the Core77 Design Awards! Sulki Choi, Min Choi, Eunkyung Jeon, Kim Hyungjin and Kyungsun Kymn are announcing their winning selections from Seoul, Korea. Tune in now to hear directly from the jury and participate in our design celebration!

PROFESSIONAL
Winner
Graphic Design: Now in Production catalogue

Runners-Up
graphic design for folk culture exhibition ‘Flower of Salt’
Posters in Amsterdam

Notables
From Farm to Fork – A Green Summit
The Sexperience 1000
Warren and Mahoney website: www.warrenandmahoney.com
Know Your Lines
7TV rebranding
W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2011 Annual Report
Visual identity for Valeur Absolue brand

STUDENT
Winner
That New Design Smell

Runners-Up
Another Singularity
OMG SPACE

Notables
Type Fluid Experiment
How would you handle the challenge?
Science & Art Symposium
Walking on Jong-ro with Mr. Gubo

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Jury Team from L to R: Alice Twemlow, Tom Vanderbilt, Maria Popova, Michael Sorkin

Over the next week, we will be giving you a 24-hour reminder to set your clocks for the live broadcast of this year’s Core77 Design Awards winners for each category. Please note, that all broadcast times and dates are Eastern Time.

Jury Captain

ALICE TWEMLOW
Chair of MFA in Design Criticism at School of Visual Arts
Alice Twemlow is Chair and Co-Founder of the Design Criticism MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York and also a PhD candidate in Design History at the Royal College of Art in London. Alice contributes to Design Observer, Eye, Design & Culture and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? and of essays for books such as The Barnbrook Bible and 60 Innovators: Shaping Our Creative Futures. She often serves on design and architecture juries and editorial boards, and directs and moderates design conferences.

Jury Team

MARIA POPOVA
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Brain Pickings
Maria Popova (@brainpicker) is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic and Design Observer, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.

MICHAEL SORKIN
Principal at Michael Sorkin Studio, President at Terreform, Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design, CCNY
Michael Sorkin is is Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a design practice working at all scales with a special interest in the city, President and founder of Terreform, a non-profit institute dedicated to research into the forms and practices of just and sustainable urbanism, President of the Institute for Urban Design, and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at CCNY. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books on architecture and urbanism.

TOM VANDERBILT
Writer
Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Outside, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Wilson Quarterly, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Metropolis and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to Artforum and the design magazine Print, contributing writer of the popular blog Design Observer and columnist for Slate magazine. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf and translated into 16 languages worldwide. He is also the author of Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002; published in PB by the University of Chicago Press in 2010).

Special thanks to the incredible jury team who worked on judging this year’s WRITING & COMMENTARY category!

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