We present two awards every year to recognize commendable dullsters: Anorak of the Year in the UK and DMC Person of the Year for the rest of the world.
We began with one award 20 years ago. Inspired by TIME magazine’s Man of the Year, we began choosing a DMC Man of the Year. As times changed and TIME’s award became Person of the Year, we too changed. Our award is now DMC Person of the Year.
The DMC began in America. Soon its UK membership began growing significantly. In the UK, the term anorak is used to describe people like us. We like that and decided to start an award strictly for the UK. We said, paraphrasing the chewing gum ad, “Doubling our pleasure, doubling our fun, let’s have two awards instead of just one.” Doing things like this is the type of excitement we enjoy, safe excitement.
