Comments on: Knight, Duffy and Gossing Take Top 2009 Parade Awards http://www.biaparade.com/blog/2009/824/knight-duffy-and-gossing-take-top-2009-parade-awards/ Come for ideas. Leave with inspiration. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:59:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: BIA Homes http://www.biaparade.com/blog/2009/824/knight-duffy-and-gossing-take-top-2009-parade-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-375 BIA Homes Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:54:53 +0000 http://www.biaparade.com/blog/?p=824#comment-375 Sherri - We are grateful for your feedback and appreciate your point of view. Certainly, next year, we will keep these comments in mind as we choose our next panel of judges. We think, however, if you look at the award winners the ones chosen for leading design were executed by long-standing members of the design community and presented outstanding entries - which has been confirmed over and over by feedback we have received from the general public since the parade opened. Thanks again. BIA of Central Ohio (posted by Ruth Milligan) Sherri – We are grateful for your feedback and appreciate your point of view. Certainly, next year, we will keep these comments in mind as we choose our next panel of judges. We think, however, if you look at the award winners the ones chosen for leading design were executed by long-standing members of the design community and presented outstanding entries – which has been confirmed over and over by feedback we have received from the general public since the parade opened. Thanks again.
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]]> By: Sheri Toth http://www.biaparade.com/blog/2009/824/knight-duffy-and-gossing-take-top-2009-parade-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Sheri Toth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:27:28 +0000 http://www.biaparade.com/blog/?p=824#comment-374 Although I am most certainly impressed with the parade homes and the efforts of each award recipient, I am both unimpressed and disappointed that the judges for the interior design category were not chosen in a fair and unbiased fashion when all of the other parade categories were justly represented! Judges with varied design expertise, business group affiliations, and/or a more diverse study of interior design should have been chosen. Award recipients chosen by three designers who all belong to the same ASID chapter (instead of being chosen from different Ohio chapters) , 2 of which both work in traditional retail furniture stores, and all of which adhere to primarily a traditional style of interior design seems less than fair. I hope that next year leed certified designers, noted and local modern interior designers, IDS and other design affiliated designers or even Artists will be considered as judges for this category! Although I am most certainly impressed with the parade homes and the efforts of each award recipient, I am both unimpressed and disappointed that the judges for the interior design category were not chosen in a fair and unbiased fashion when all of the other parade categories were justly represented! Judges with varied design expertise, business group affiliations, and/or a more diverse study of interior design should have been chosen.

Award recipients chosen by three designers who all belong to the same ASID chapter (instead of being chosen from different Ohio chapters) , 2 of which both work in traditional retail furniture stores, and all of which adhere to primarily a traditional style of interior design seems less than fair.

I hope that next year leed certified designers, noted and local modern interior designers, IDS and other design affiliated designers or even Artists will be considered as judges for this category!

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