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If you are a fan of the Favourite Website Awards, you may interested to know that its founder Rob Ford has recently compiled a list of dos and don’ts of web entrepeneurship in a book aptly titled “Guidelines for Online Success“. Ford offers advice and lots of real-word examples of successful and award-winning websites to help you improve your personal or business website. The book is co-edited by Taschen’s Julius Wiedemann.
I was lucky enough to have been invited to a party celebrating Creativity Magazine’s annual Creativity 50 last night in New York and had hoped to bump into a few of the honored guests. Creativity’s list “represents the biggest innovators of the year, who—through repeated demonstration of sheer brilliance or even just one spectacular feat—brought new spark to their respective fields of advertising, entertainment, marketing, technology, design and beyond” and included such names as Radiohead, the Coen brothers and Yugo Nakamura.
With that in mind, I had conjured up a brilliant conversation between myself and the Coen brothers about their use of postmodern visual art and techniques in Miller’s Crossing. Of course not all of the honorees could make it, including my new best pals, Ethan and Joel, but nonetheless it was a great party and led me to discover (and re-discover) a lot of amazing design in the work of the Creativity 50.
So, as you may have guessed, I did not actually find Yugo Nakamura at the party, but I did revisit his work. Yugo P, as he is also known, is a brilliant web designer who has researched and developed both experimental and consumer projects dealing mainly with interactivity. Read the rest of this entry »
Now that everyone is back from Austin and has returned to their normal sleeping patterns, we can take a closer look at all of the web award winners this year. One of the cooler sites, which I’ve already found useful, did not win but it was a finalist in the Experimental category. After first seeing Issuu on the web-resource-heavy Go2Web20.net, I decided to spend a little more time with it. Issuu allows anyone to upload a publication to their site in the .pdf format and create an online library of other publications, including magazine, portfolios and articles on just about anything. I discovered it to be another great place for design inspiration and networking, as well as a great current events resource.
Now for the winners (definitely check out the Passive-Agressive Notes blog for a laugh)…
