In addition to the beloved standards, we honor several newer forms of design practice: Service, Social Impact, Educational Initiatives, DIY, and now in 2012, Food Design and Writing & Commentary. 17 categories in all.

Does your project fit comfortably in more than one category? You can enter it into as many as it applies to. Check out the full list with descriptions and examples HERE.

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15 of the 17 categories offer a dedicated student section. (The exceptions are DIY, which has no Professional or Student distinction, and Speculative.) That’s 15 student trophies up for grabs.

Visit our 2011 list of honorees to check out the amazing winners from the inaugural Core77 Design Awards and
see who made the cut.

Be part of the most inclusive and celebratory design awards platform of the digital age. Both the Professional and Student Winners of each category will receive the C77DA trophy, and all honorees will be published in the Awards Gallery, Core77 and the awards publication and celebrated at our New York event. It all starts here.

“A Trophy That Recognizes the True Key to Creativity: Collaboration. People who win awards almost never deserve all the credit…Yet there is usually only one winner, one trophy. Here to offer a small corrective is Core77, which tapped the New York design studio Rich Brilliant Willing to design an award that recognizes the collaborative nature of Promethean toil.”
-Co.Design

The Core77 Design Awards trophy allows winners to share the glory.

Instead of flying jurors to one city, we selected 20 esteemed Jury Captains distributed in host cities around the world. The Jury Captains in turn recruit 3 more local experts to their teams. That’s over 70 individuals in 13 cities across 8 countries representing the 2012 jury line-up.

During our Results Week in July, each jury team reveals their winning choices in a live announcement broadcast from their home city, in their local time zone. A truly global awards event not to be missed.

Since designers are great at showing and telling, the Core77 Design Awards provides the opportunity to share the ‘real story’ (beyond still images, PDFs and text) with the jury through DIY, honest, 2.5 minute video testimonials.

See how it’s done with our Video Making Tips. Watch some of the videos submitted last year in the 2011 Video Gallery.