The Time is Here! Core77 Design Awards OPEN FOR ENTRY

		January 2013 Greetings Design Fans, The Time is Here! The Core77 Design Awards is open for entry. Ready your best work and enter it into any of our 17 progressive categories honoring the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. And if you register now, we'll send you a limited edition Core77 Design Awards poster designed by New York City-based firm, Zut Alors! Enter before January 31st to receive a 20% discount! From Consumer Products to DIY, Service Design to Writing & Commentary, the Core77 Design Awards provides designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts. We also offer 15 designated student sections within our 17 categories. And with globally distributed jury teams, the individuals who will be considering your work are expert practitioners in the field. Our awesome trophy, designed by Rich Brilliant Willing, is a DIY mold that truly celebrates the teamwork behind design. So don't delay—we are now accepting projects launched anytime between January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013. Begin preparing your entry today. Looking Forward to Seeing Your Work, LinYee Yuan Executive Editor
		CORE77's 2012 YEAR IN REVIEW Besides our Top 25 Top Stories from 2012, Core77's editors and contributors have put together a great roundup of the most interesting ideas in Digital Fabrication, Crowdfunding, Transportation, Design Aesthetics and Hip Hop that will influence the way we design in the coming year.   A JOURNEY TOWARDS LOCAL MANUFACTURING A look at one man's journey to manufacture a line of accessories in the United States and what led him to launch Maker's Row, a directory of factories and materials suppliers for designers who want to keep it local.   TIME, TIMING AND THE TIMELY Cameron Tonkinwise shares his reflections on the 2012 Design Ethos DO-ference and challenges designers, educators and conference organizers to do more in the coming year. "Once someone has proved that conferences can be so much more valuable, by having well-prepared, timely DO-ference components, there is no going back."   OPENING THE KIMONO: PRODUCT LICENSING, CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE NDA In his third column on product licensing, Bruce Tharp examines the confidentiality conundrum and the Buddhist notion of the "beginner's mind." After the decision to license a product, the first question that is almost always asked is, "What's to keep a company from stealing my idea after I show it to them?"   MACHINE SHOP SKILLZ: THE TURNERS CUBE hipstomp looks at the machine shop skills that it takes to produce the classic Turner's Cube. Would you be able to produce this competency test?
		Martin Esteva Buenos Aires, Argentina Jacqueline Gonzalez Pasadena, California Jake Horsey Sunderland, Massachusetts Brigitte Monet Boyer New York, New York Kevin Boulton Northampton, United Kingdom
		Interaction Designer LUNAR San Francisco, California Industrial Designer DCI / Decor Craft Inc. Providence, Rhode Island Creative Internships Hallmark Cards Kansas City, Missouri	Industrial Design Intern Design3 Hamburg, Germany Senior Outerwear Designer Columbia Sportswear Portland, Oregon Art Director / Sr. Designer littleBits Electronics New York, New York Find more jobs on Coroflot!
		Featured Competition: App to the Future Design Challenge Deadline: February 3 Design the Life You Love Workshop with Ayse Birsel January 12 New York, New York American Design in Paris From January 16 Paris, France Interaction13 by the Interaction Design Association January 27–31 Toronto, Canada IDSA International Design Excellance Awards 2013 Deadline: February 11 New York's Next Top Makers Competition Deadline: February 13 Find more design events on our calendar!
		Bicycles Make for Better Cities: Bike Hacks & Tragedies Inspire Sparse, a New Cycling Accessory Company An Architecture Firm Takes the Hobbit House Seriously Different Designs for Splitting Logs Two of a Kind: Ultraminimal iPhone 5 Cases
		Women in Industrial Design “Question: Why are there so few women working as industrial designers? Are there any studies/surveys conducted that seek reasons as to why this is the case? Prior to landing a full-time ID position, I did notice a off-set number between men and women in my previous internships/freelancing jobs. Didn't think much of it. During college, Femme Den from Smart Design presented at our school of successful case studies they've conducted with various companies. Again, I didn't really give it much thought then. My graduating class of '09 were a good mix of men and women... Fast forward 3.5 years, I'm already seeing about a 30% drop in number of girls working as an industrial designer within my graduating class. Many left to pursue fashion, graphic, marketing, crafts, etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining that women are not equally treated/paid/respected. I am really, really, discouraged that this is just the reality, and would like to get your thoughts on why this might be the case (so that I myself can better prep to possess all facet of skills in the future). I had some theories of my own... so feel free to tag along as well...” by smyoung   Tim Cook Announces Plans to Manufacture Mac Computers in USA We didn't cover Tim Cook's announcement that Apple would invest $100 million in U.S. manufacturing when the news broke in late 2012, but the highly informed folks over at our discussion boards have been chiming in about the decision, both in terms of the tech company's strategy and as a symptom of a broader shift in 'insourcing...' by scrotum   BMW 4 Series... BMW Is Back! “Have you seen the new BMW 4 series "concept"? Hopefully this is a thinly veiled production model. The front and rear clips are pretty awesome. The back especially is pretty bad ass. Side view proportions are really nice. Love the mirrors and door handles. I'd love to see those details go to production. My only caveat, and there is always something, is the side vent behind the front wheel. It is better that the Aston Martin inspired stuff everyone else is doing though...” by victordcantu   Industrial Design and Crime "I am a recent grad with a bachelor's in Industrial Design and recently received an internship and two freelance jobs. Yes people are happy for me for the hard times with the economy... except myself... I feel like the world is becoming more and more materialistic with the products we are designing... I come from an inner city were poverty, drugs, gun violence, and gangs is a huge problem. And my own family and friends back home cant afford the products I'm designing. We are designers and we are problem solvers, but I feel like most of the "problems" designers solve, do not seem to be problems in my book... I am losing interest in the design industry where money matters most. I love being a designer but can an Industrial Designer solve crime? gangs? poverty?” by coffeekicker   Reasons Not to Innovate “I was thinking recently about the common road blocks to innovation that we hit. I'd like to know what other ones people have hit and maybe some ways to get around them. Here are the ones I've encountered most: Competitor bias: My competition hasn't created this product, therefore there is no market for it. This is the biggest by far. Everyone tells me how risky it is to be first to market with a new idea. To me, it always seems as those risks are over-stated to continue the comfy status-quo. Not invented here: At every job I've had, I've heard marketing, engineering and everybody else look a competitor's product and laugh, "Why'd they do that!?!". Not every idea from outside an organization is a bad one. Technology bias: This is the way we've done this before, this is the way we do it again. I think this is a close cousin to Not Invented Here. It's amazing to me that people would rather stick with a complicated and expensive design than simplify and lower costs, but they toss up this barrier to it. Process blindness: Every process for discovering market opportunity has limits. Often people fail to recognize those limits and either miss out on opportunity, or jump into a limited opportunity with both feet.” by Mr-914   Get in on the action in our discussion forums
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