The 2012 Jury

We are deeply grateful to our esteemed group of international Jury Captains and their jury teammates. With at least 4 people on each jury that’s a total of 74 jurors in 13 cities across 8 countries forming the most inclusive and global jury ever for this year’s Core77 Design Awards.

Consumer Products

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Founder and Owner of HULGER / PLUMEN
Founder and Owner of Poke

Daniel Charny - Consumer Products - Photo Credit V&A - EDIT

Director at From Now On, Senior Tutor at Royal College of Art

Sebastian Noel - Consumer Products - EDIT

Director and Co-Founder of Troika

Sofia Lagerkvist - Consumer Products - EDIT

Sofia Lagerkvist

Co-Founder of Front

Equipment

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Dean and Professor at School of Design at Hunan University

Dr. and Professor at College of Mechanical Engineering and Transportation, Hunan University

General Manger of Innovation Design Center at Haier Group

President of CBi China Bridge

Professor at State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design & Manufacturing for Vehicle Body & School of Design, Hunan University

Soft Goods

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Michael DiTullo

Chief Design Officer at DEI Holdings

Creative Director at The North Face

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Principal at Formant Studios

Creative Director and Founder at PHYLA, Inc.

Furniture & Lighting

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Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago

Publisher and Editor at Design Bureau Magazine

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Helen Maria Nugent

Director of Designed Objects programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Co-Owner of Volume Gallery

President and Co-Founder of Koz Susani Design Inc

Interiors & Exhibitions

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Director of Grupo AG

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Lígia de Medeiros

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Daniel Mangabeira da Vinha

Architect and urbanist and Partner at DOMO Architects.

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Fernanda Bocorny Messias

Manager of the Programa Brasileiro de Design-PBD (Brazilian Design Program)

Visual Communication

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Sulki and Min Choi

Co-Directors of Sulki and Min

Kim Hyungjin - Visual Communication - Cropped - EDIT

Graphic Designer and Partner of Workroom

Eunkyung Jeon - Visual Communication - Cropped - EDIT

Editor-in-Chief at Design Monthly

Kyungsun Kymn - Visual Communication - EDIT

Assistant Professor and Faculty of Craft and Design at the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University

Packaging

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Laurent Hainaut

Co-Founder and Partner of Raison Pure Design Group

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Francois Brument

Creative Director of Pixelis

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Patricia Tranvouëz

Global President of KENZO Parfums

Interaction

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Jury Co-Captain

Principal at BERG

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Jury Co-Captain

Principal at BERG

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Jury Co-Captain

CEO and Principal at BERG

Head of User Experience & Design Group at BBC

Vice President of R&D at Bonnier

Strategic Design Lead at Sitra

Service

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Co-Founder and Principal of Reboot

Director at Deloitte GovLab

Writer, Editor and Researcher at Doblin

Principal at Method, Inc.

Assistant Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design

Transportation

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John B. Rogers, Jr.

President, CEO & Co-Founder of Local Motors

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Aurélien François

Community Liaison and Design at Local Motors

President and CEO of Pivot Cycles and BH USA, LLC

Senior Industrial Designer at Peterbilt Motors

Social Impact

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Tasos Calantzis

CEO of Terrestrial

CEO of The Innovation Hub

Group Strategy Consultant for Design SABS Design Institute

CEO of Raizcorp

Educational Initiatives

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Mariana Amatullo

Co-Founder and Vice President, Designmatters, Art Center College of Design

Karen Hofmann - Educational Initiatives 2 - EDIT

Chair of Product Design and Director of the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory at Art Center College of Design

Johanna Blakely

Managing Director & Director of Research at USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center

Alex Hennen - Educational Initiatives - EDIT

Alexandre Hennen

Director of Continuum Los Angeles

Strategy & Research

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Lorraine Justice

Dean of College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology

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Katherine Bennett

Associate Professor of Industrial Design, Humanities and Design Science at Art Center College of Design

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Professor and Senior COLAB Fellow at Syracuse University Department of Design

Business Development Manager at Daedalus

Writing & Commentary

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Chair of MFA in Design Criticism at School of Visual Arts

Tom Vanderbilt - Writing & Commentary - EDIT

Maria Popova - Writing & Commentary - EDIT

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Brain Pickings

Michael Sorkin - Writing & Commentary - EDIT

Principal at Michael Sorkin Studio, President at Terreform, Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design, CCNY

Speculative

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Author of "Beyond the Beyond" at Wired

Senior Research Scientist, Interactions and Experience Research, Intel Labs

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Bernardo Fernández

Writer, Story Teller and Graphic Designer

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Irina Kharseeva

PR Manager at AR Door

DIY

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Director of Wearable Electronics Group at Adafruit Industries

Chris Hackett - DIY - EDIT

Director of The Madagascar Institute

Yury Gitman - DIY 2 - EDIT

Founder of Banana Design Lab

Nelson Bakerman

Collaborative Strategy Leader at Digi International

Food Design

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Marc Brétillot

Caroline Champion - Food Design - Cropped - EDIT

Caroline Champion

Philosopher, Taste Explorer and Head of Convergences Culinaires

Alexandre Gauthier - Food Design 2 - EDIT

Alexandre Gauthier

Chef of Contemporary Cuisine at La Grenouillère

Alok Nandi - Food Design 2 - EDIT

Creative Director and Designer at Architempo