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Essay :: Looking Back — Looking Ahead
An Open Letter to the Design Community By Thomas Van Hare, Chairman, IPPA / Digital Minute – It doesn’t seem like all that long ago, really. This web thing started with such promise. For most of us, the revolution began on a tiny little desk, more often than not it was in a cubicle at ...
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DesignerONE :: Award Recipients
IPPA DesignerONE Award was presented periodically to recognize the most influential and cutting edge individual designers working in Internet and New Media. Each demonstrated truly innovative design talent and vision. Their individual portfolios include some of the most brilliant and inspirational sites online and they were the designers of that era that others would follow ...
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DX Award :: Asif R. Naqvi Dot Com
Asif R. Naqvi Dot Com is a self-promotional piece from a designer in Lahore, Pakistan. It is perhaps most interesting in that it is the work of one person, Asif R. Naqvi, a graphic artist whose work has somehow escaped the narrow commercial confines of his region and managed to span the globe, with clients ...
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Essay :: Five Ways to Improve a Site
By Thomas Van Hare – At Digital Minute, we make it a practice to review hundreds of site designs from around the world. This provides an excellent opportunity to follow emerging design trends, new techniques, and the overall direction of design online. As a result, we recognize common errors that plague the work of designers, ...
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DX Award :: Redism
Redism demonstrates that direct marketing is not necessarily best marketing. Bass Beers Worldwide, the famed English brewery, hired Underwired, one of England’s leading creative agencies, to dream up and deploy a promotional website that would serve to reach beyond the clear limitations of alcoholic beverage advertising on the Net. The result is an artistic blast ...
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DX Award :: Born Magazine
Born Magazine is an online venue for art and literature collaboration. To date, Born’s volunteer staff (with an array of contributing editors, writers, designers, programmers, and musicians) have facilitated and published more than 200 collaborative, experimental projects. From Born’s first beginnings five years ago, it has caught our attention. Yet until now, we’ve never selected ...
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Essay :: Navigation Design
By Thomas Van Hare – Navigation and design go hand in hand. From reviewing thousands of sites submitted to the IPPA, we have come to classify navigation into two predominant categories, what we call passive and managed, directed navigation. Further, we have come to recognize a basic flaw in the online design community — a ...
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DX Award :: Volvo’s 3D Truck Configurator
Volvo’s 3D Truck Configurator is absolutely astounding. Naturally, since Volvo is a Swedish firm, you’d expect to find that their truck accessories website is the work of one of the top two Swedish agencies, Framfab AB. Designed for a broadband connection to be sure, the site is well worth the wait. Based on Viewpoint technology, ...
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StudioONE Awards
From 1997 to 2001, the IPPA published a StudioONE Award. The S1 was a ranking of the most influential and innovative new media design studios around the world. Each award recipient demonstrated a proven track record of innovation in design and commanded a wide following of other designers who were influenced by the work. Among ...