Design Observer Battles Hearing Aid, Helvetica for People's Design Award

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s website provides a helpful clock that ticks away the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left in the voting for the 2008 People’s Design Award, and as we enter the home stretch, Design Observer is in the lead. The ur-design blog—helmed by Michael Bierut (winner of this year’s Design Mind award), William Drenttel (who designed the asterisk-themed National Design Award statuette), and Jessica Helfand—is currently listed first among the site’s ever-changing list of top vote-getters.