News & Updates
March 12, 2012
Five More Jury Teams!

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: our final Jury Teams are in for the Core77 Design Awards! We are proud to count these design superstars as part of our jury constellation in the most inclusive and celebratory design awards program of the digital age. These illustrious Jury Teams represent five more categories: Equipment (Changsha City), Speculative (multi-country), Packaging (Paris), Interiors & Exhibitions (Brasilia) and Strategy & Research (Rochester). So prepare your projects; they are excited to see your work!
Equipment
Judging Location: Changsha City, Hunan Province, China
Jury Captain
» Renke He
Dean and Professor at School of Design at Hunan University
Team Members
» Cathy Huang
President of CBi China Bridge
» Jianghong Zhao
Professor at State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body & School of Design, Hunan University
» William Wu
General Manger of Innovation Design Center at Haier Group
» Jing Ping Liu
Dr. and Professor at College of Mechanical Engineering and Transportation, Hunan University
Check out their bios and mugshots here.
Speculative
Judging Location: Multi-country
Jury Captain
» Bruce Sterling
Author of “Beyond the Beyond” at Wired
Team Members
» Maria Bezaitis
Director of People and Practices Research Group at Intel Research and Senior Research Scientist of Interactions and Experience Research at Intel Labs
» Irina Kharseeva
PR Manager at AR Door
» Bernardo Fernandez
Science Fiction Writer, Professor of Graphic Design, CENTRO
Check out their bios and mugshots here.
Packaging
Judging Location: Paris, France
Jury Captain
» Laurent Hainaut
Co-Founder and Partner of Raison Pure Design Group
Founder, President and CEO of Raison Pure NYC
Team Members
» Joel Caussimon
Art Director of Pixelis
» Patricia Tranvouëz
Managing Director KENZO Parfums
» Francois Brument
Designer
Check out their bios and mugshots here.
Interiors & Exhibitions
Judging Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Jury Captain
» Nicola Goretti
Director of Grupo AG
Team Members
» Fernanda Bocorny Messias
Manager of the Programa Brasileiro de Design – PBD (Brazilian Design Program)
» Lígia de Medeiros
Designer
» Daniel Mangabeira da Vinha
Architect and urbanist / DOMO Architects Partner
Check out their bios and mugshots here.
Strategy & Research
Judging Location: Rochester, NY, USA
Jury Captain
» Lorraine Justice
Dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology
Team Members
» Tim Fletcher
Business Development Manager, Daedalus
» Donald Carr
Professor and Senior COLAB Fellow at Syracuse University Department of Design
» Katherine Bennett
Associate Professor of Industrial Design, Humanities and Design Science at Art Center College of Design
Check out their bios and mugshots here.
These jurors will be joining our group of amazing individuals that we announced last week. To see the previously announced Jury, click here. Stay tuned for the announcement of our final jury team (for Transportation).
Our Earlybird deadline ends tomorrow, March 13 at 11.59pm Pacific Time. But don’t fret. You still have until our regular deadline on April 10. Register today and we will send you a limited-edition 2012 awards poster. If you have already registered then log in to complete and pay for your entry.
Visit How to Enter for details.


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