Design Bloggers Conference Announces Hall of Fame Awards

Design Bloggers…it’s your time to be recognized on the global new media stage! We are excited to announce the creation of the Design Bloggers Hall of Fame. The role of the Hall of Fame is to recognize excellence in blogging and new media in the field of interior design. Each year, a new set of outstanding design blogs will become elegible through an open, online nomination procees leading up to the ultimate recognition as Hall of Fame inductee.

The winners, and runner ups, will be determined through a combination of ratings by a panel of judges and a public vote. The awards will be presented live, and the inductees recognized at a special Hall of Fame luncheon during the 2012 Design Bloggers Conference in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 2012.

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Links to Blogs of Finalists

If you’d like to check out the blogs of the finalists, here are the links to their blogs, listed in alphabetical order:

Here are the criteria for each of the categories:

• Best Design Blog Graphics, Photography, & Presentation

1. Presents a compelling visual experience for readers, both within the site format and in individual posts.
2. Demonstrates the potential of the blogging format to convey ideas or subject matter through images.
3. Presents its subject matter in a highly visual and graphic manner that is both entertaining, educational, and thought provoking.
4. Must have consistently and frequently posted in the past year.

• Best Writing On a Design Blog

1. Demonstrates excellence in the use of the English language.
2. Writes with an original voice that conveys a personal style.
3. Consistently conveys original, insightful and entertaining messages.
4. Must have consistently and frequently posted in the past year.

• Best New Design Blog

1. Presents a compelling visual experience for readers, both within the site format and in individual posts.
2. Demonstrates the potential of the blogging format to convey ideas or subject matter through images.
3. Presents its subject matter in a highly visual and graphic manner that is entertaining, educational, and thought provoking.
4. Must have been established no earlier than one year prior to the nomination period (i.e. no earlier than November 17, 2010).
5. Must have consistently and frequently posted since its inception.

• Best Overall Design Blog

1. Continually produces of entertaining and informative content.
2. Contains well-written and well-produced posts.
3. Demonstrates independent and original ideas and insights.
4. Advances the reputation of the design blogging community through its overall form, content and presentation.
5. Must have consistently and frequently posted in the past year.

The Rules

Here is how the  Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame Awards process works:

• The awards are open to any English-language design blog.
• The nomination period will start on November 22, 2011, and continue through the end of the day (Eastern Standard Time) on December 21, 2011. Nominations are open to the public and will be made via the Design Bloggers Conference website. A nomination can be made by simply adding a comment to the page for the designated category nominating the blog for consideration. Each blog nominated for a category will be included in the selection process; additional nominations for a blog in the same category will have no effect, so once a blog is nominated for a category there is no reason to nominate it again.
• A panel of expert judges will evaluate all the nominated blogs for each category during the period December 22 – January 8, 2011 and will select the top five blogs in each category.
• The public will be given the opportunity to vote for the finalists of each category from January 9 – February 10, 2012.
• Each category winner will be chosen based on 50% of the input coming from the judges and 50% coming from the public vote.
• The awards will be presented live at the Design Bloggers Conference in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 2012.