Allan Cochinov says:
Core77, the popular design website network, has just launched the Core77 Design Awards, re-imagining many of the elements of a typical design award program — leveraging online scale, increasing transparency, and decreasing plane. We’ve expanded the typical categories to include DIY, Service Design, Social Impact, Educational Initiative, and “Never Saw the Light of Day” (projects that were “killed” in 2010!) And rather than putting jurists on planes and flying them all to the same city, we’ve selected Jury Captains–experts in each of the 15 categories–distributed around the world (15 cities in 8 countries this year). They will pick their own local juries to join them (bike, jogging, or train radius!), and webcast their results live in their own time zone. Adding more transparency to the process, we are inviting entrants to create low-tech “video testimonials” to tell their storey–beyond jpegs and entry form text. (MAKE’s own Becky Stern has one here. Even the awards trophy is unique, with design team Rich Brilliant Willing sharing their process from sketches to prototypes to production, over the course of the entry period. Early registrants receive a complimentary poster designed by Studio Lin, and entry deadline is May 3rd.
