James Beard Foundation Expands Restaurant Design Awards, Nixes Graphics Category

We’ve been known to select dining establishments based on their chairs and typefaces, so when the James Beard Foundation announces its annual slate of award nominees, we head straight for the design and graphics categories. Unfortunately, the latter category–won in recent years by the likes of Korn Design, Love and War, and Pandiscio Co.–seems to have lost its seat at the groaning JBF awards table. At the same time, the design category has been expanded to recognize the best restaurant design or renovation in North America (since January 1, 2010) in two categories: establishments of 75 seats or less and those with 76 seats or more.

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