The BS Johnson Award is a special design award given in different categories:

1. original design by members

2. social planning

3. laws
Rules:

1. It must be a grandiose design. No half measures.

2. The design must utterly fail to do what it is supposed to do.

3. The design must contain emergent properties: that is, it must do something utterly unexpected.

4. The design must illustrate some previously unsuspected, but utterly astonishing, truth about the universe, revealed in the most insulting way possible.

5. The design should be aesthetically pleasing. (The last criterion is open to debate.)