Hasta La Ideas

Photo credit: Image courtesy of Studio Lin

You’ve got until May 3 to enter your best work from 2010 into the Core77 Design Awards.

We’ve re-thought a lot of the elements of the design award model, and believe we have a good recipe. We’ve collected five key ingredients for your consideration:

1. Video Testimonials – Participants get to share their “real stories” with the judges personally and directly via short video submissions. Intended to be easy to make—videos can be low-tech, look-into-the-webcam recordings—these testimonials provide a unique opportunity to get across the intent and notable aspects of a design in a way that text and jpegs can’t. Make a video→

2. Global-Local Judging – Bringing together the field’s brightest design minds, Core77 has selected 15 Jury Captains to lead 15 juries distributed around the world in cities such as Tokyo, Turin, San Francisco and Sydney. This unique judging process balances a broad global perspective with local expertise. See the juries→

3. Live Web Broadcasts – Winners will be announced by jury teams in fifteen different locations around the world—live—so the world can watch events unfold as they happen and hear from the jurors themselves the rationale behind their choices. Find out more→

4. New Categories – Leveling the playing field with innovative categories such as “DIY” and “Never Seen the Light of Day,” this competition truly reflects what is happening in the wider industry and offers more opportunities to ennoble design enterprise in all forms. Check out the categories→

5. A Trophy That Celebrates Teamwork – Breaking the mold for typical awards, Rich, Brilliant, Willing are approaching the design of the trophy with generosity in mind. Winners can flex their creative muscles by casting their own award in a material of their choice and can share the accolades by creating multiples for their team and contributors.

The top professional and student entries will win the inaugural trophy, and the Winners, Runners Up, and Notable entries will be published in the Awards Gallery and across the Core77 online network. So visit the site, learn about the unique features of the award program, and enter your best work by May 3.

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