We welcome international entries. Entries will be judged on their beauty, originality, functionality, sustainability, and depth of user insight. Designs must have come to market between June 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012. Concepts must have been made public in that time. The fee for each entry is $100 for all categories except student, for which the fee is $50. You may enter as many products and projects as you like. Each entry should be accompanied by a statement of no more than 500 words describing the design and explaining why it's better than what has come before it; 5-7 images; and one video, less than 3 minutes long, explaining the product and how it works. You should upload that video to Youtube or Vimeo, ... Continue reading →
Unsurprisingly, The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting early this week, for articles about the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods and organizations in the wake of 9/11. Also unsurprising was fresh controversy that the award stirred, given the sensitive subject. Curiously, that clamor proved to be but a warmup for more hullabaloo over the A.P., on an issue that is dearer to some people’s hearts than police spying. This is about language. Language, of course, is the soul of a culture. Interestingly, in an e-mail sent to online subscribers on Wednesday, the A.P. affirmed what it had already revealed in a tweet on Tuesday and in an announcement to a society of copy editors days earlier. From now on, ... Continue reading →