I simply don’t care about the IDSA awards, they’ve fallen off my radar completely. However, I do enjoy the humor of seeing their ridiculous/terrible winners. Always good for a laugh.
So many years of horrific designs for winners, potential bribery, and poor execution as a competition overall… I just stopped caring.
For me, the IDSA competition is about as credible as “great product design list” by a writer for a magazine about fireplaces.