More Bashing of the Design Museum’s ‘Designs of the Year’ Awards

Maybe it’s a British thing or maybe people are still just skeptical of Deyan Sudjic and miss Alice Rawsthorn, but the powers that be in the UK press sure are giving the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards a really hard time. Following the Guardian‘s Jonathan Glancey saying last week, “Uh-oh…here’s another new award described, as all awards in fields of creative endeavour must be, as the ‘Turner Prize of’. Of what, this time?” we now have The Times‘ Thomas Dyckhoff picking on them, starting with almost the same opening:

If I had a penny for every time I heard the phrase “it’s the Turner Prize of the [insert glam-seeking, but actually not very glam discipline here] world” – well I wouldn’t be here writing this. I bet the toilet supply industry, paperclip manufacturers and the Association of Accounting Technicians all have their very own Turner-esque shindig.

Yow. And it doesn’t really get much nicer from there. Even Wallpaper, who is generally nicer about the whole thing, offers up a few digs at the new awards. But hey, maybe it’s like high school and that’s what you have to go through for a while before people get used to you and suddenly you’re a senior, picking on the freshman.

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