I was at the White House yesterday for the National Design Awards as a program of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum where I am a Trustee. Fortunately I was able to personally celebrate the bestowment of the honor of the Communications Design Award with winner and RISD alum Scott Stowell with whom I am comfortably pictured here. Congratulations Scott! I enjoyed how Scott told me that when he got the call that he had received the award, he told his studio, “Okay guys. We’re all done now.” Which is of course a joke as now as 2006 Communications Design winner alum-founded company 2×4 well knows — the work never ends because it just gets more and more interesting. As someone who received the 2001 award, I now know (smile).