Yup, I must be a sucker.

I recently went out and purchased STEP INSIDE DESIGN’S “BEST OF THE WEB” issue. It set me back $12.95 (designer mags are never cheap!). Don’t get me wrong, the articles are usually interesting, but this year’s issue felt like a big advertisement for Odopod. I mean, what kind of awards contest allows one of the judges to be the creative director of a nominee? Granted, Odopod didn’t win the grand prize, but four pieces of Odopod’s were included (Hello Design was represented with a judge but had only one piece).

I’ve often wished that these firms would recognize products that were done on a smaller budget or in a smaller market. Hmmm, does Kansas have Web designers? Granted, such sites might not be quite as polished, but don’t constraints spawn creativity?

Getting back to the issue, I know how it works; firms often submit as many sites as they can to get any publishing space available, and I’m not saying that Odopod’s work wasn’t some of the best of the Web this year, but some very impressive sites were excluded from this year’s list, and I would hope that in the future STEP would find some unbiased judges.

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