Fusion Forward: Design for Home, Core77's competition with Autodesk Fusion, asked designers to rethink everyday products for the home across three categories: Smart Home Devices, Personal Fitness & Wellness, and Home & Yard Maintenance. Entries were judged on material selection, form development, and utility, along with how well designers used Fusion's tools in their process. Our jury of design and industry leaders had plenty to weigh as they reviewed the finalists. We're excited to announce the winners and runners-up in each category. Home & Yard Maintenance Winner: Snail Farm Pod Designer: Oleg Vereshchagin Oleg Vereshchagin's winning entry, the EscarGrow Bio-Hub, is an automated, closed-loop snail farming module built for regenerative agriculture and community food security. The fully enclosed unit handles the whole cycle in one compact package: organic waste processing, a snail habitat, automated collection, and production of nutrient-rich compost and protein. Its sealed design supports biosecurity and regulatory compliance, and its modular format lets it deploy anywhere from rural farms and degraded land to urban educational gardens. Vereshchagin also developed EscarGrow Mini, a desktop version with custom 3D-printed components meant for hands-on STEM education and rapid prototyping. He modeled the project in Fusion using its Solid Modeling and T-Spline tools. "Although I haven't been using Fusion for very long, I've had a very positive experience with it," he says. Runner-up: NIDO Designer: Manuel Ovalle NIDO is a 3D-printed birdhouse for backyards and balconies, intended to create more nesting refuges for birds in urban and suburban areas. Ovalle designed it for FDM printing from the start, so the body prints without support structures, which cuts material waste and post-processing. He developed it in a 24-hour design sprint, including about eight hours of printing. The files are free to download in both 3MF and STL from Ovalle's website, so anyone with a

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