Award submissions can be tedious affairs. The prospect of preparing all those facts and figures to prove ROI and effectiveness. The pages and pages of do’s and don’ts. The sometimes nonsensical category choices. Well here’s some good news. If you’ve longed for some straightfoward awards that exist solely to reward a bloody good idea, you’ve [...]
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Happy Birthday Swamp (at Brahm)
Today is our birthday! In fact, we’re a little bit like the Queen, we get two birthdays.
Swamp started in April 2002 with the five founders Simon Wadsworth, Paul Mallett, Andrew Brown, Ally Manock (me!) & Christine Osborne. It was a fantastic time…lots of award winning, lots of great work and lots of fun!
Brahm bought Swamp [...]
Happy 15th Birthday Banner Ads!
October 27 marks the 15th anniversary of the industry’s first banner ads, which appeared on Hotwired.com – the first commercial digital magazine on the web and the offshoot of Wired magazine.
The site launched on the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, shortly before Netscape’s browser (“Netscape? what’s that?” I hear the younger ones call…). Here is [...]
D&AD Awards Judging 2009
So the in book results are back from the D&AD Awards for 2009. Last month I spent four days holed up in the massive Olympia in London with creatives from all over the world judging the websites category of this year’s D&AD awards. If I remember correctly there were 20,000 entries and 500 judges all [...]
Cyberpunk Reading List
Sci-Fi and in particular Cyberpunk has helped shape the world we’re living in now. The development of the internet, social networking and the future of cyberspace have been brought to life by visionaries who write about technology, science, culture and politics.
