The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work Honorees by Core77 Design Awards

The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work category honors products or services designed for individual consumer use with the intention of improving efficiency and productivity. Examples include: hardware tools, photography and audio equipment, productivity applications, educational tools, etc.

This year's Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work team was led by Wild One Co-founders Minali Chatani & Veronica Becchetti. Joining them on the panel were Monish Sabnani, Co-founder at Courant, and Alisha Ramos, Founder at Girls' Night In.

The Tools & Work honorees are as follows:

Tools & Work Award Honorees

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  Winner

  Monogram Creative Console

  By Monogram

• 
  Runner Up

  HP DesignJet Studio

  By Nacar Design

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  Notable

  PMVND EDITION II

  By POLARPRO

• 
  Student Winner

  Xtend Nomadic Office

  By Eva-Maria Bieli

• 
  Student Runner Up

  Unifying the Digital Creative Process

  By WWU Industrial Design class of 2020

• 
  Student Notable

  Henry

  By Jacob Tasker

• 
  Student Notable

  Two-way chainsaw—Turning

  By Hao-Tian Zheng and Xi-Long Zhao

• 
  Student Notable

  CameraBoy

  By Bo Wang

• 
  Student Notable

  catCove

  By Daniela Gomez-Quintero, Madison Jason, Kelly Pobgee, Jasmine Attanasio, and Cherie Chen

Congratulations to all of this year's honorees! You can view the honorees in all 18 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2021 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Furniture & Lighting | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Packaging | Personal Accessory | Service Design | Speculative Design | Sports & Recreation | Strategy & Research | Tools & Work | Transportation | Visual Communication

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The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Design Education Initiative Honorees by Core77 Design Awards

The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Interaction Honorees by Core77 Design Awards

The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Commercial Equipment Honorees by Core77 Design Awards

The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Commercial Equipment category honors operational equipment and systems designed for public, commercial, industrial, medical and scientific use. Examples include: machinery, medical instruments and devices, construction tools, transaction kiosks, weather instruments, etc.

This year's Core77 Design Awards Commercial Equipment team was led by Jon Grossman, Senior Industrial Designer at Verily Life Sciences. Joining Jon on the panel was Jonathan Kim, Senior Industrial Designer at Shopify, Alejandra Castelao, Industrial Design Lead at Fjord and Ara Acle, Senior Industrial Designer at Casper.

The Commercial Equipment honorees are as follows:

Commercial Equipment Award Honorees

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  Winner

  Nella NuSpec Reusable Vaginal Speculum 

  By Ceek/Gearhead

• 
  Runner Up

  CAKE x Dometic food delivery box

  By CAKE & Dometic

• 
  Runner Up

  WorldVent Ventilator

  By WorldVent Volunteer Team

• 
  Notable

  Echelon Endopath™ Staple Line Reinforcement

  By Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies

• 
  Notable

  B-Matrix

  By Taga

• 
  Notable

  Apex Exosuit

  By Interwoven Design Group, LLC.

• 
  Notable

  Healthdot

  By Philips Experience Design

• 
  Notable

  Vave Health Handheld Ultrasound 

  By Box Clever

• 
  Notable

  Philips VX850 critical care ventilator

  By Philips Experience Design

• 
  Notable

  Fuse 1 3D Printing Ecosystem

  By Formlabs Design Team

• 
  Notable

  EVOSS - Ex-Vivo Organ Support System

  By Formation Design Group

• 
  Student Winner

  Alta Hyperbaric Chamber

  By Clarissa Martins, Camille Dansereau, Huixian (Nimi) Chen, Mike Clarke, Xavier Drysdale, Naji Kaddoura, Leah Katz, Morgan Munro, Yasmin Sirton, and Birk Zukowsky

• 
  Student Runner Up

  Ascender Tethering System

  By Stijn van Cuijk & Sydney Eilbacher

• 
  Student Runner Up

  Array - ECG Monitoring for Intensive Care

  By Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Tim Schwarz, Johannes Rieder, Marius Kindler

• 
  Student Notable

  FLIR MOTION - Training tool for safe removal of patients involved in vehicle accidents

  By Natalia Ikebara

• 
  Student Notable

  Artery

  By Yujie Jiang

• 
  Student Notable

  SCOPE

  By Huwan Peng

• 
  Student Notable

  Bull Carrier

  By Jovan Vulic

• 
  Student Notable

  Sova - Soft value measurement and mental health

  By Fabian Böttcher, Mehmet Mehmetalioglu, Mihkel Güsson, Alexander Fries

• 
  Student Notable

  IVIO - For effortless ICU transports

  By Anna Hing, Jenny Johansson, Natalia Ikebara, Richard Prossinagg

Congratulations to all of this year's honorees! You can view the honorees in all 18 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2021 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Furniture & Lighting | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Packaging | Personal Accessory | Service Design | Speculative Design | Sports & Recreation | Strategy & Research | Tools & Work | Transportation | Visual Communication

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Parsons' New Online Design Programs: Product Design Essentials & UX Design Foundations, for $99/Month by Rain Noe

The New School's Parsons School of Design is located in New York City, where you may or may not want to go after the pandemic is over. If you don't, but would still like to avail yourself of their education, here's two new online design courses they're launching:

Product Design Essentials

Product Design Essentials offers an introduction to industrial design and product development that explores the diverse career opportunities tied to these disciplines. Wallpaper*, the world's number one global design publication, joins as the program's media partner; helping Parsons and Yellowbrick co-develop the curriculum based on their editorial staff's considerable expertise and industry connections.

Focusing on the integration of the design, manufacturing, and marketing components of the product creation process, Product Design Essentials combines interactive learning tools and real-world activities to create a broad and engaging learning experience. The course is built on compelling video lessons taught by world-renowned faculty from Parsons and Wallpaper* editorial staff, as well as experts and insiders from across the industry. Based on their own career trajectories, instructors offer students key insights into various career paths and skills required in industrial design.

UX Design Foundations

UX Design Foundations offers an exploration of the critical stages of the UX - or "user experience" - journey. Learners will receive a thorough introduction to the principles and practices behind UX design, as taught by Parsons faculty and industry experts. The program offers exposure to a range of topics from usability research methods, concepting, wireframing, designing with data, and UX analytics; as well as the latest technologies shaping the future of modern user interface design. UX Design Foundations consists of five course modules: Introduction and Fundamentals of UX, Project Planning and Research, Designing for the User, Visual Design and Feedback, and Designing with Data and New Territories in UX.

Despite the images they've provided, above, these courses are 100% online.

Each course consists of five modules, with each module totaling 3-5 hours of presented material; from what we understand, the time to conduct your own assignments is on top of those hours, and is conducted at your own pace. Signing up gives you access to the course materials for one full year, within which you're expected to complete the program.

Parsons reckons that all told, it will take you 30-40 hours to complete either program.

Both courses cost $999—but if you're speedy and plan to tear through the courses quickly, you can also choose a $99/month subscription model, potentially saving you a bundle.

Lastly, to be clear, these are non-credit certificate programs.

You can learn more at the links below.

Product Design Essentials

UX Design Foundations

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After the Pandemic, What Should We Make Out of All Those Plexi Barriers? by Rain Noe

After the pandemic, what are businesses and institutions going to do with all of the plexi shields they put up? Plexi (a/k/a Plexiglas, or acrylic) is a No. 7 plastic, like nylon, which is not easily recyclable and often ends up in landfill.

"Ayodeji Oluwalana, recycling and special events coordinator for Iowa State University Facilities Planning and Management, with the plexiglass barriers that will soon be coming down inside the General Services Building."

Merry Rankin, director of Iowa State University's Office of Sustainability, is eyeing ISU's 500-something barriers that will eventually have to come down. She reached out to Dan Neubauer, an associate teaching professor at ISU's Industrial Design department, to see if ID could help. According to ISU News,

"Neubauer presented his students with the general idea, which was vague besides knowing they would have to find a need for the plexiglass. "There were a lot of discussions of provenance and the charged nature of the material," he said. "Students had to decide if they wanted to acknowledge the fact that this material was once a barrier that divided us and kept us safe versus a material to be upcycled and reclaimed.

"Industrial design senior Jacob Laufenberg created a Desk Organizer Stress and Anxiety Reliever (DOSAR) out of recycled plexiglass barriers."

"The major theme of this class…is social connection and impact. We've had a lot of discussions of how our designs are not only material projects, but how they can impact our society.

"Ideas so far include turning the barriers into rechargeable [sic] laptop desks, organizational desk tools, large-scale interactive art installations – even class rings for those who didn't get to have an in-person commencement ceremony last year. Some barriers, of course, will remain standing or will be reused as is once they are no longer needed due to COVID-19 as departments such as University Museums and Parks Library have found them useful for functionality and directional assistance."

"Industrial design senior Payton Stelling turned plexiglass barriers into an adjustable portable table for those working from home."

I think the poetry of the class rings idea is nice—think of that entire generation of students who missed out on graduation—and the signage idea sounds great, but I'm also keen to see what useful things could be made that would benefit an even greater portion of society. The barriers will surely be coming down soon; if Neubauer and other school's ID departments were to continue tackling the issue next semester, what suggestions would you have for them?

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Razer Lends Their Industrial Design Team Out to Clearbot to Design Trash-Collecting Marine Drone by Rain Noe

I think of gaming hardware company Razer as, well, a gaming hardware company. So I was surprised to learn that they've not only established a $50 million venture capital fund for sustainability-focused startups, but have also lent their industrial design team and engineering team out to at least one of them: Clearbot, a Hong-Kong-based organization developing solutions to rid waterways of trash. "We love using our expertise to support game-changing startups and their push for sustainability," says Charlie Bolton, Razer's Director of Industrial Design.

Clearbot has been working on a solar-powered autonomous marine drone that hoovers up waterborne trash like a floating Roomba. Their prototype works, but I guess it doesn't look like the type of object investors like to fund:

Razer's ID team sexified Clearbot's creation "with a design that's more efficient, marketable and scalable:"

You can support Clearbot's mission here, and you can support Razer's mission to support Clearbot's mission by, like, buying one of these.

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Studio Flaer's Suspended Yet Angle-Adjustable Piuma Lighting Fixture by Rain Noe

Pendant lighting is free-floating and static, whereas adjustable lighting is typically attached to a jointed arm. Berlin-based industrial design firm Studio Flaer subverts this arrangement with their Piuma light fixture, which hangs like a pendant, but can adjust its angle by means of a sliding weight on the handle.

"Piuma is a luminaire that makes the act of balance tangible. The design embodies a physical mechanism in an increasingly digital world. Like a feather, the luminaire floats in space and its dualistic form creates a tension between expected weight and size. Shifting the weight creates strong angles or a stable horizontal. The ultra-light shade rotates on its own axis and directs the light omnidirectionally."

Translations of call-outs, top to bottom:

- Swiveling reflector

- Handle for rotating the reflector

- Balance marks

- Adjustable weight

See more of Studio Flaer's work here.

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