And the Award for Ugliest Award Goes to...

All this talk of design awards got us thinking about the design of the awards themselves. We all know that the National Design Award is a sturdy yet elegant slab of asterisk-themed silicon carbide designed by William Drentell (and occasionally mistaken for a microphone by elderly winners), and we’ve always liked those orange zeppelins distributed annually by Nickelodeon, but other awards aren’t so lucky. The Juno Award (a.k.a. the Canadian Grammy, pictured at right) was redesigned in 2000, changing from a spiky