Core77 Design Awards announced winners of its 2011 competition. The international winners were chosen in 15 categories by a dedicated judge panel. The designers (both professional and students) were awarded 30 special trophies created by Rich Brilliant Willing.

The winners are:

Products/Equipment

Professional winner: ‘Load Carrier for Labour’ by Vikram Dinubhai Panchal—National Institute of Design (NID) (Ahmedabad, India)

Load carrier for labor project is the innovation to improve the working condition of labors and workers at many places globally like factories, ports, railway stations, etc.

Student winner: ‘U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit’ by Pengtao Yu­—Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, USA)

A conversion kit designed for American Red Cross that quickly converts a U-Haul rental truck into temporary Emergency Response Vehicle when a catastrophe happens.

Furniture/Lighting

Professional winner: ‘Herman Miller SAYL chair’ by fuseproject—Yves Behar (San Francisco, CA, USA)

SAYL has a full-suspension back that is literally frameless, giving it both support and an great form.

Student winner: ‘Polytope X-Board Seating’ by Thomas Hurd (Melbourne, Australia)

Polytope is an environmentally conscious flat-pack seating system ideal for temporary seating needs can be assembled in 15-30 seconds.

Soft goods/Apparel

Professional winner: ‘Bespoke Fairing’ by Bespoke Innovations—Scott Summit (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Specialized coverings that surround an existing prosthetic leg, accurately recreating the body form through a process that uses three-dimensional scanning to capture the unique leg shape.

Student winner: ‘Euphemia’ by Helen Furber—London College of Fashion(London, UK)

A striking shoe with components which can be separated for (recycling/biodegrading) post-consumption.

Graphics/Branding/Identity

Professional winner: ‘OCAD University Visual Identity’ by Bruce Mau Design (Toronto, ON, Canada)

OCAD University had achieved degree-granting status. BMD designed a logo, inspired by OCAD U’s iconic Alsop-designed building, which reflects an inclusive, vibrant and vital institution built on creativity, risk and innovation.

Packaging

Professional winner: ‘PUMA Clever Little Bag’ by fuseproject—Yves Behar, Josh Morenstein, Nick Cronan, and Seth Murray of fuseproject and GBH (San Francisco, CA, USA)

PUMA’s ‘Clever Little Bag’ is a bag and box combination; a cardboard sheet folds into a box structure, fitting seamlessly into a cloth bag. This system uses 65% less cardboard than the standard shoebox, is recyclable, and reduces water, energy and diesel use in manufacturing by over 60% per year.

Interactive/Web/Mobile

Professional winner: ‘Bell Labs — Innovation Whiteboard’ by Potion—Phillip R. Tiongson (New York, NY, USA)

This large-scale interactive whiteboard presents every paper and patent published by Bell Labs. It showcases the lab’s legacy of innovations and recent inventions.

Student winner: ‘LIT.’ by Jan-Erik Stange and Sebastian Meier (Berlin, Germany)

A Tool for location based literary research enabling users to explore books by locations contained in them on a multi-touch table.

Service Design

Winner: ‘OpenIDEO’ by IDEO (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

OpenIDEO.com is a Web-based platform for innovation where creative thinkers worldwide can design better, together.

Transportation

Professional winner: ‘Mission R Electric Superbike’ by Motonium Design—Timothy Prentice (Redondo Beach, CA, USA)

The Mission R is a high performance electric motorcycle for international racing competition.

Student winner: ‘Project Aura’ by Ethan Frier and Jonathan Ota—Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Project Aura is a bicycle lighting system designed to address the issue of nighttime urban bike commuting.

Interiors/Exhibition

Winner: ‘Exhale Pavilion’ by Phu Hoang Office & Rachely Rotem Studio (Brooklyn, NY, USA)

The project created a public art venue for the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair. The site was temporarily transformed by seven miles of hanging ropes swaying in the wind.

Strategy/Research

Professional winner: ‘Bedsider’ by IDEO (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

A birth-control support network for women ages 18 to 29.

Student winner: ‘Design Play’ by Jonathan Fristad, Susan Huang, Ahmed Riaz, Eric Dorf and Mon Vorratnchaiphan—California College of the Arts(Mountain View, CA, USA)

It is an open-ended, foundational creative framework that builds on what children already do as they play.

Student winner: ‘Senseables’ by Hannah Duffy—University of Illinois (Chicago, IL, USA)

An outerwear and footwear solution addressing the needs of children with autism through touch sensitivity, learning tools for independence, and style and peer acceptance.

Design education initiatives

Winner: ‘Sticks + Stones’ by Mark Biddle, Audra Buck-Coleman and Ann McDonald (UT, MD & MA, USA)

Sticks + Stones, a collaborative project, gathers graphic design students from diverse geographical regions to explore their similarities and differences.

Design for social impact

Professional winner: ‘4th Amendment Wear’ by Matthew Ryan, 4th Amendment (New Lambton, Australia)

The 4th Amendment (a protest against intrusive TSA X-ray body scanners) to the US Constitution is readable on TSA body scanners.

Student winner: ‘Gobug’ by Greg Katz and Tom Rim (Deerfield, IL, USA)

An interactive toy designed to facilitate an inclusive social learning experience for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

DIY/HACK/MOD

Winner: ‘Tall Furniture’ by Robert Turek (Ferndale, MI, USA)

A new system for live performance. By spreading the stage into multiple focal points, the audience is deeply immersed in the performance, free to move about and experience intimate and unique vantage points.

Speculative Objects/Concepts

Professional winner: ‘Knarr Cargo Airship’ by Rune Kirt and Mads Thomsen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

A wind turbine freight system by modern airship technology powered with solar energy. An alternative to existing heavy cargo freight systems—focusing on wind turbine.

Student winner: ‘CV Dazzle: Open Source Camouflage’ by Adam Harvey—Tisch School of Arts, NYU (Brooklyn, NY, USA)

A camouflage from face detection. It is a response to the growing prowess of computer vision technology and the resulting phenomenon of shrinking privacy.

Never saw the light of day

Winner: ‘LaundryPod’ by the RKS Design Team (Thousand Oaks, California, USA)

An eco-conscious innovation to save energy, water and answer the need for a quick, easy, and environmental friendly way to wash small loads.