Products of Design Wins at the Core77 2024 Design Awards!

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Congratulations to Charvi Shrimali ’23, Shun Cheng Hsieh ’24, Nigel Keen ’24, and Jacey Chen ’24 on their wins at this year’s Core77 Design Awards!

🏆 Charvi Shrimali ’23 received a Student Notable, Speculative Design Award for her project Lipi: A Speculative Devanagari Keyboard, which was created for her thesis, How India Looks: Localizing Design Tools for a Billion People.

🏆 Shun Cheng Hsieh ’24, Nigel Keen ’24, and Jacey Chen ’24 received a Student Notable, Sports & Outdoors Award for their project Surge: Professional Skateboard Footwear, which they developed for our Product, Brand, Experience course with Hlynur Atlason.

The webpage for the Lipi - Speculative Devanagari Keyboard award description.

Lipi: A Speculative Design Keyboard - Student Notable, Speculative Design

Lipi is a Devanagari keyboard that reimagines the typing experience beyond QWERTY. As a speculative object, Lipi questions the assumed universality of widely used design tools by highlighting the nuances of the Hindi language often left out by standardization practices.

The webpage for the Surge - Professional skateboard footwear award description.

Surge: Professional Skateboard Footwear - Student Notable, Sports & Outdoors Award

Surge is an innovative skateboarding footwear brand that merges advanced engineering technology from traditional sports footwear with the unique needs of skateboarding.

Skateboarding is demanding on the feet, subjecting them to high impact, crashes, and injuries. Despite this, skateboarding footwear has not significantly evolved technically since its inception in the ’60s and ’70s. Surge aimed to target a gap in the market for a product that enhances performance and protection without sacrificing style or aesthetics.