The TV & Cinema Crafts Jury awarded 23 nominations – the most out of any single jury this year. Environmental Design led the design categories with 14 nominations, including 2 for Mario Kogan Architect in Brazil and 2 for Art+Com in Germany. The Product Design Jury awarded 9 nominations – 1 each to Vitra, Samsung, Taxi Canada and Adiri, and the remaining 5 went to Apple. The Viral Factory, Motion Blur, Cutwater and EVB were among 8 nominees in Viral.
UK ad agencies lead the way with total work In-Book – AMV.BBDO at the top with 27 entries, including 2 nominations in TV & Cinema Crafts for ‘Tipping Point’ for Guinness. Twenty-three entries from DDB London went In-Book, including 2 nominations for ‘Wonderful Life’ for luxury retailer Harvey Nichols. BBH London was awarded 5 nominations for its work for children’s charity Barnardo’s, men’s deodorant Lynx and mobile network Vodafone along with 14 other pieces going In-Book.
Black Pencil Judging will take place on 1 & 2 May in London. The jury will consist of the Foremen and one judge from each original Jury. This group will decide if any work is truly groundbreaking. Previous winners include Nikeplus.com by R/GA and The Guardian newspaper redesign.
Apple’s nominations:
• Product Design, Leisure: Apple, Inc. – iPod nano
• Product Design, Leisure: Apple, Inc. – iPhone
• Product Design, Leisure: Apple, Inc. – iPod touch
• Product Design, Leisure: Apple, Inc. – iPhone Bluetooth Headset
• Product Design, Leisure: Apple, Inc. – iPod classic
• Product Design, Work & Industry: Apple, Inc. – Apple Wireless Keyboard
• Product Design, Work & Industry: Apple, Inc. – Apple Keyboard
• Product Design, Work & Industry: Apple, Inc. – iMac
• Online Advertising: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Apple Inc. – “Don’t Give Up” Mac
Nominated work can be viewed online from 6 May here.
frist, as in bill frist…
The ADD awards will be announced as soon as someone can catch the judges. First prize is a giant gerbil exercise wheel.
Wow, cool, AD&D;awards. Cleric level 80? You go Steve!
Wait…….oh, shoot, wrong award thing……..
Meanwhile, my 57th level kender mage grabbed 8 bags of gold in the coveted AD&D;awards.
I typed this, and then I looked up at ericdano’s post… Guess my leet geek skillz are slipping. >.<
Impressive set of nominees. I’m glad Apple’s still working it & getting recognized for their efforts.
The wireless keyboard is a complete fiasco & misguided product by Apple — it doesn’t have a number keypad on the right-hand side of it, which basically makes it basically useless!
MacBill,
What do you use the number pad for?
Think I’ve only used it a few times and therefore wouldn’t miss it.
Maybe there’s a forest of keyboard shortcuts I don’t know about
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So, basically you’re saying you can forget using BASIC or even base six which basically puts you in sick bay without a basic ally.
@DJ,
If you work with 3D software (Blender, for example), or a lot of numbers, your life becomes much easier with a numeric keyboard.
Other than that, I agree.
Now, to call it “fiasco”, well I don’t know. If you know it doesn’t have a numeric keyboard, well, don’t buy it (there are lot of OK alternatives).
DJ,
Just because you don’t use the keyboard doesn’t mean that there is no need for it. I don’t use you for anything so you are useless? I sense a problem with your logic…. useless
Did Vista get any?
yeah, most expensive doorstop…
@Ampar…
basically
Crap! For a second there I thought they were nominated for some D&D;awards, like Dungeon Master of the Year.
@ericdano and C1,
D’oooooh!
WOW ….Fascinating. What the hell is D&AD;?
The Wireless keyboard is a joy to use, even without a Number Pad…
…it is a pain, because InDesign shortcuts for Paragraph Styles do not work on the number keys above QWERTY… they only work on the Number Pad.
BUT, saying that, it is still an amazing piece of hardware. I love mine! I also LOVE LOVE LOVE my iPhone!
@papasmack
It’s amazing what Google can do for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D&AD;
Why do I need to use Google in order to understand the story? I don’t know what D&AD;stands for either, and I bet most readers here don’t either.
D&AD;= Designers & Art Directors. Good awards but flawed by the fact that you have to pay to enter your work so if you do win, it’s a hollow victory as you’ll more than likely see work as good as yours doing the rounds by people who just didn’t have the resources to enter the competition.