The Core77 Design Awards Home & Living category features consumer products or services designed to enhance comfort, convenience, security, and sustainability in residential spaces. Products and services can integrate digital tools, smart devices, and automation systems, making everyday life more efficient and enjoyable from home management, entertainment to security and energy efficiency. Examples include home accessories, appliances, home electronics, smart home products, security systems.Mitch Heinrich's work spans an incredible range of subject areas, but they contain a unifying principle: the ability to shape new ideas while focusing on holistic design and sustainability. Over two decades in design, Mitch has empowered micro-entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa, developed stratospheric internet balloons and glucose-sensing contact lenses, co-developed Google Glass's bone conduction transducer, gone deep on AI-driven aquaculture, and led a design team working with synthetic biology to create new sustainable materials. His award-winning design and development work has been exhibited at the NYMOMA and Cooper Hewitt museums. Dozens of granted and pending patents bear his name as an inventor, and he founded the Design Kitchen at Google [x]. Today, he leads Design at Copper, a home electrification company that creates battery-equipped induction stoves powered by renewable energy. In addition, Mitch's boutique design studio, What For, advises companies on sustainable material development.Mitch led the design of Charlie, the world's first battery equipped induction range. The product is designed to conveniently replace gas stoves without requiring any electrical work and features walnut analog touchpoints and a unique radiused brow line. In his practice, Mitch is encouraged to see the shift from touch screens on everything back to thoughtful analog interfaces and physical touch points. "Yes, it adds more cost," he says. "No, you can't add a new button after a product has shipped. It is 100 percent worth it."He worries about the dependency of physical products on software, cloud servers, internet connections, and security updates and the effects of investors, share prices, and company solvency on their long-term value and utility. "A car from the 1990s could easily still work today if maintained. Will a Tesla still work in 30 years? Unlikely."From Core77 Design Awards entries, Mitch is seeking products "that have a reason to exist and are not chasing trends or have single use lifespans. An ideal entry is one that combines utility, aesthetics and has a strong point of view."2024 Winner of the Home & Living Category was Charlie by Channing St. Copper Co.Mitch was the 2024 winner in the Core77 Design Awards Home & Living category for Charlie by Channing St. Copper Co., an energy-storage-equipped (ESE) induction range that offers a superior and more sustainable cooking experience to the traditional gas stove.If you've got a home & living design with potential to build a happier, healthier home, submit it to the 2025 Core77 Design Awards. Enter your work in the Core77 Design Awards today.