Philip Nobel Nails the National Design Awards

Winners were announced earlier this week for the National Design Awards, bloggers posted the results appropriately, but we hadn’t seen a smart survey of the field of honorees, and nothing like last year when Bruce “Blubberboy” Nussbaum called the awards an unequivocal “failure.” (Oh, and also, in case you forgot, designers suck.)

In today’s Currents, Philip Nobel says some pretty astute stuff about the awards’ potential:

Since the inception of the National Design Awards program in 2000, when it was announced with much fanfare at the White House, the awards, overseen by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, have been a mixed bag.