Lab Notes

Apple Design Awards 2007

Congratulations to the winners! Some of the usual suspects are there: Panic, Delicious Monster (what, no Freeverse?!), and some newcomers — the BART widget is now installed on my MacBook Pro.

Elektron 1.0 was a runner up in the (now non-existent) Server Solutions category. The awards take a Glengarry Glen Ross approach: first place is a stack of Apple hardware; second place is a lucite cube; third place, you're fired! OK, maybe you don't get fired, you just don't get mentioned at the awards. I've got our lucite cube sitting on the bookshelf behind me, but I'd rather have a 30" Cinema Display sitting on the desk in front of me!

The amusing thing is that because your application must be shipping at the time of the awards submission deadline (with the exception of the Leopard applications category) to be considered, that last day of eligibilty tends to make for an embarrassment of riches for Mac users. Both Coda and the winning version of CSSEdit (a personal favorite) shipped on the same day this year.