National Design Awards // News Media Summit in New York

Yesterday, the National Design Awards were assigned at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York to honor the best in American design. The 2008 nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, journalists, cultural figures, and corporate leaders -- among the winners Google's innovation star and DLD friend Marissa Mayer in the category Corporate Achievement. DLD co-founder Marcel Reichart attended the gala as well and further met DLDsters John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, Beth Comstock from GE, Seed's Adam Bly and new friends such as Scott Stowell, winner in the Communication Design category. Read more over here (German link).

Also, on Thursday the "New Business Models for News Summit" took place at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Jeff Jarvis who teaches at the public CUNY gave an opening speech on the new journalism and media landscape and new business models (catchwords: content vs. link economy, product vs. process, newsroom vs. network) -- see the full presentation here. Among the speakers and guests Edward Roussel from Daily Telegraph, DLD friends such as Tocada founder Dave Morgan and Glam CEO Samir Arora who launched Brash.com this week, Jim Spanfeller of Forbes.com or BusinessWeek's Jon Fine. Marcel posted more on this topic here; also visit the summit's website here.