April 9th is the opening date for nominations for " The Designer Toy Awards 2012

Clutter has just announced that nominations for the 2012 edition of the Designer Toy Awards will  use a two-tier process.  First, the public is invited to nominate  choices for the full list of award categories (after the jump), beginning on April 9th. Once that’s completed, nomination committees will cull the publicly nominated individuals, companies, toys, down to 10-15 nominees per award.   In my opinion, this is a definite improvement over last year’s system which resulted in voters having to choose between extremely large number of choices for some awards.    Look for announcement of the nominees at SDCC in July, followed by the DTA 2012 awards ceremony in October at NYCC.

2012 Designer Toy AWARD CATEGORIES

TOY OF THE YEAR
BRAND OF THE YEAR (Previously Manufacturer of the Year)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
BEST CUSTOMIZER
BEST MINI SERIES
BEST SELF-PRODUCED
BEST COLLABORATION
BEST LICENSED PRODUCT
BEST PLUSH DESIGN
BEST 1/6 SCALE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
BEST BLOG
FAN FAVORITE
BEST ONLINE TOY STORE
BEST TOY STORE
BEST TOY FROM A COMIC
BEST DIY PLATFORM
BEST COLLECTION

Original post by Vinyl Pulse.