MIYAMOTO, SPORE AWARDED JIM HENSON HONORS
In its fifth year running (and, shamefully, the first I’d heard of them), Muppet-makers The Jim Henson Company have put Will Wright’s Spore and Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto in good company amongst prior honorees Al Gore, Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman, Etsy and the Prius as recipients of their annual Jim Henson Honors, which celebrate “organizations, individuals or products that reflect the core values and philosophy of Jim Henson and the company he founded.”
Miyamoto was awarded the ‘Celebration’ honor for “[making] the world a better place by inspiring people to celebrate life,” most recently with his oversight on Wii Fit, while Spore was honored for “[demonstrating] ground-breaking technology in a creative way,” in giving people “their own personal universe in a box where players build their own galaxy from scratch.”
Also awarded this year was Atlanta, GA non-profit The Center for Puppetry Arts and guerilla design legend Shepard Fairey for his instantly recognizable Hope art campaign for Barack Obama.
Jim Henson Honors [via press release]
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