Awards

Posted in Design

I absolutely just love watching the Oscars.

So that got me to thinking about design awards. I have to admit to groaning whenever I see some web site that has won a non-industry recognized award. You know the awards I am talking about. The ones that all you have to do is have a web site, or pretty close just to having a web site and you get an award. Oh puhleeze!!!

Now real awards are:

http://www.webbyawards.com (Web Sites)

http://www.webaward.org/

http://www.stevieawards.com/aba/

http://www.aaf.org/ (Advertisement)

http://www.iabc.com/ (Business Communication)

http://2006.bloggies.com/ (Blogs)

http://www.podcastawards.com/ (Podcasts)

http://www.gawds.org/poll/ (Accessibility)

http://www.webstandardsawards.com/ (Web Standards)

Also any award or recognition given by HOW, Print, and Communications Arts is an excellent accomplishment.

Seeing the following awards on someone’s business web site (as in a web designers or developer’s) makes me just want to cringe: