Brightspark in Net Visionary Awards Shocker!
September 26, 2007 at 9:15 am
A couple of people have pointed out that Brightspark is listed amongst the cast of thousands that makes up the Net Visionary Awards contenders. That is true. Heidi Jermyn is in the web designer excellence category and I nominated her. Heidi is a truly excellent designer who always managed to combine design beauty with edgy-ness. Heidi and I worked together at Brightspark and in that time she was the creative force that was responsible for many great sites. After 8 years as a designer, Heidi decided she’d had enough and has moved on to become a Project Manager. She’s happily project managing at Arekibo now and rumour has it, she’s becoming known as an Accessiblity Nazi (sorry – Guru!) there. I nominated Heidi because it would be nice for her to bow out of one career on an award tip and because it was free! You can vote for her here.
That said, I still think the IIA Awards is a popularity contest. Half the people on there I’ve never heard of, yet some of them might make it to the shortlist – as indeed I did last year for Best Internet Marketer. It will remain to be seen who’s got the largest mailing list when the shortlist is announced. Go go Heidi. Give her your vote. It would be kind of ironic for someone who’s no longer a designer to win the best designer award!!
Comments (4 responses)
Heheh. “It would be kind of ironic for someone who’s no longer a designer to win the best designer award!!” And that’s why I’m going to vote for her! (I’m sure she’s a deadly designer too, though!)
I humbly thank you Maryrose for your very kind words! I haven’t completely traded in my artistic sensibilities for the cold, harsh world of project management… I’ve been helping out over at http://www.camara.ie with the design of the new website – just live and not completely AA accessible just yet but will be very soon
And I have to say you did a lovely job on camara – and it’s a very worthy charity! Little do they know they got one of the best in town to work on their site!
Hi Maryrose, there might be one or two designers on the nomination list you haven’t heard of but still worthy of the shortlist
Supposedly the theory behind the net visionaries is for people within the industry to vote for their peers, which would seem like a straightforward idea. In reality people just send the link to their mates, clients and whoever else they can think to spam. It turns into popularity contest and as you say Maryrose, it is whoever has the largest mailing list ends up in the final shortlist.
Quality designers who may well be deserving of some credit can be passed by if they don’t manage to muster up the votes and it’s possible that a designer or designers ‘less deserving’ could get through to the shortlist instead which is a pity because unlike the Golden Spider Awards (which has its own problems) the Net Visionaries focus more on the people rather than the businesses. Hopefully someday we will have fair awards for the Irish Internet industry.
Lovely work on Camara Heidi
Please leave a comment...
All comments are moderated before they are published.