Vote for the 10 Most Influential (design) Bloggers of 2008

Last year, Home Rejuvenation held a 10 Most Influential Bloggers push.

The winners were…

First place: Design*Sponge
Second place: Apartment Therapy
Third place: MoCo Loco
Fourth place: Decor8
Fifth place: Desire To Inspire
Sixth place: Oh Joy!
Seventh place: Swiss Miss
Eighth place: NotCot
Ninth place: Sfgirlbybay
Tenth place: Bloesem

As you can see from the winners, it’s more of an interior, product design focus rather than communication design. No matter, it’s always fun to watch how these things pan out.

The cast for this year (below) has a great bunch included. There’s some noticeable no shows dotted around, so, maybe give Home Rejuvenation suggestions for 2009? Like, who to add and who to cut?

And maybe they could even separate the focus a bit? Product design, Interior design, Communication design… or something similar…

(not that I’d place even then, but, hey…)

Vote for your favs of 2008…

2Modern Design Talk
30 gms
Absolutely Beautiful Things
An Indian Summer
Another Shade Of Grey
Apartment Therapy
Beach Bungalow 8
Behind The Curtains
Better Living Through Design
Bloesem
Blue Ant Studio
Brilliant Asylum
Casapinka
Charles And Marie
Contemporist
Cool Hunting
Core 77
Cube Me
David Report
Decor8
Design Boner
Design Boom
Design East
Design Milk
Design Observer
Design*Sponge
Design Spotter
Designers’ Block UK
Designers Who Blog
Desire To Inspire
Dezain
Dezeen
Dezona
Fabulously Green
Freshome
Grijs
Happy Mundane
Hemfeber
Home Rejuvenation
Ikea Hacker
Imedagoze
Inhabitat
It’s (K)not Wood
Josh Spear
K-Fresh Designs
Karin’s Style Blog
Katiedid
Laissezfaire
Land+Living
Lena Corwin
Made By Girl
Materialicious
MocoLoco
Mod Mom
Modern Roost
Modish
Notcot
Oh Joy!
Pan Dan
Patricia Gray
Poppy Talk
Print & Pattern
Product Dose
Sensory Impact
Sfgirlbybay
Shelterrific
Style Court
Swissmiss
The Cool Hunter
The Design Files
The Peak Of Chic
The SCOOP
The Style Files
Treehugger
Trend Hunter
Trendir
Uncrate
Yanko Design
Yatzer

Who to add: David Airey and Logo Design Love, both by David. They are two of my favourite blogs this past year, bar none.

And if there’s ever a blog voting what’s it for designers with language blogs, I’d put mine forward: Women Learn Thai

(perhaps a better name would be See the Expat Women Struggle to Learn the Thai Language from the Comfort of Her Own Sofa…)

Note: As mentioned, I’ve been absent from DWB with crazy health problems. With a lot of work to get it sussed, and more than a lot of bitching, I’m coming out of it. Slowly. So please look out for regular features on fabulous bloggers.

Ok, I’ll continue to kick up a fuss… but I’ll be back for sure.

Enjoy…

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Jacob Cass says:

September 22, 2008 at 1:22 pm

So where do we vote / add other design blogs?

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cat says:

September 22, 2008 at 1:52 pm

If you click on their graphic on my post, or the first text link under the graphic that says ’10 Most Influential Bloggers’, it’ll take you to their competition page. There you’ll find a text link (third paragraph where it says ‘click here to vote’). Click on that and a pop up form will appear.

Reading down through the comments on their post, you’ll find others putting forward opinions. There’s a fair number of negative comments. A waste of time really, but seems to be the way the internet is going (with manners out the window).

So take your pick. Either vote for you fav in the list and put a new one in the comments, or vote for one not listed. Up to you really, as they are paying attention.

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David Airey says:

September 22, 2008 at 4:27 pm

That’s quite the recommendation, Cat! Thanks very much.

Really sorry to read of your continuing illness. Here’s hoping things are on the up, and that it’s not getting you down too much.

I think I read on Home Rejuvination that much of the focus was on interior design, so I’m with you, would be nice to see some additional bracketing, though I can empathise with the work involved.

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Cat says:

September 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Hey Dave, just telling the truth :-)

Yeah, this being sick a long time is tedious. I do have up days (my nature) so it’s not impossible. Just tiring.

And it’s a good thing I have a friend with a driver. We take off twice a week to get chauffeured around the good stuff. This has got to be the laziest way to see BKK (she’s leaving soon so is trying to get in as much of Bangkok as possible). Tomorrow is we’re doing a second Mon village on an island, to see the pottery. I’m almost feeling guilty…

I too can empathise with the work it would take to separate each out. Or, they can just take out the communication designers next year… decisions…