2005 National Design Awards
August 12th, 2005
The Cooper-Hewwitt Design Museum recently announced the finalist (and some winners) of their annual national design awards. This year they have renamed the somewhat deceptive “Environmental Design” section as two categories of Interior and Landscape design. Hopefully someday soon, the museum will also start giving out national sustainable design awards.
Previous Winners:
2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
Popularity: 3% [?]
August 12th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
Until then, I suppose this EPA-sponsered student P3 Award Competition will have to do.
(While promoting sustainability to the youth that will soon be shaping our world is very powerful, it’d be nice for our culture to show that it actually valued a sustainable life-style beyond academic excercise.)
August 13th, 2005 at 11:36 am
i suppose it’s important to mention that a few of the awards, past and present, have gone to pioneers in the fields of sutainable design (Patagonia, William McDonough, etc), but still.
Emphasizing sustainable design as valuable in our culture through a national design award would be far more powerful.
(but good to see that people are proving that sustainable design can be / is good design.)