The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Fastspot created the People's Design Award Website for The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, as part of National Design Week and the National Design Awards. The Website invited anyone to nominate an object they felt represented great design—from a pencil to a water filtration device being donated to third world countries suffering from droughts. Visitors to the Website then voted on their favorite and were also welcome to comment on the submissions.

The first year the site went live, it saw tremendous traffic; after being featured on the front page of Yahoo!, we watched over 6 million visitors click in over a 24 hour period. The site provided a CMS for the Cooper Hewitt staff to regulate content and a flagging system on the front end asked the community to patrol the images and content, as well.

The site and competition was an overwhelming success and continues on today as an integrated aspect of the National Design Awards.