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Vote for the FWA Site of the Year
Posted by Eliza Williams, 16 December 2009, 12:15 Permalink Comments (12)
The Favourite Website Awards (FWA) has drawn up a shortlist of the best twelve websites this year, and is inviting you to vote for your favourite...
One website has been chosen for each month - stills from each site are shown here, and votes for the FWA People's Choice Award 2009 can be cast online at thefwa.com/pca2009/. Voting closes on January 13, with the winner announced on January 15.
January's site (still shown top) is Thank You Begins With A T from digital agency Grow Interactive. The website lets you play old-school games with Grow employees and also offers T-shirts to visitors, "as a thank you to our friends and clients".
February's site is for GE, and uses elegant graphics to show the value of the GE Smart Grid. Visit the site here.
March is a beautiful site for Spanish musicians Labuat. As the song plays, users can interact with the inky onscreen graphics to create effects. Visit the site here.
April is this brightly coloured site for clothing brand Lacoste. Visit site here.
May is this site for VW for the Golf GTI, which lets visitors play in the GTI 'workroom' and test drive the car. Visit the site here.
The June pick goes to ad agency BooneOakley who has made clever use of YouTube instead of building its own site. Visit the site here.
For July, the FWA has picked this website celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. Visitors can launch their own rockets, and view archive photography and video from the time. Visit the site here.
August is this fun-filled site for Red Bull, which allows users to build their own Red Bull Soapbox cars and race other players. Visit the site here.
The favourite site for September is this interactive site for car brand Saab. Visit the site here.
The October site is HBO Imagine, where viewers are encouraged to piece together a story by watching films scattered all over the site. Visit it here.
November is this simple but effective website for interior design firm Wonderwall, which uses a clever technique to create an unusual and eye-catching showcase of the company's projects. Visit the site here.
Finally, the FWA's chosen site for December is the Adidas Teamgeist website, which continues the sports brand's recent graphic novel style and allows visitors to play football games online. Visit the site here.
Vote for your favourite site online before January 13 here.
12 Comments
These are all really impractical heavy Flash-based sites (but I guess that is what FWA is known for).
Instead, I'd have probably gone for Poke MCFC site - http://www.umbro.com/ - or Anomaly's Umbro site - http://www.umbro.com/ though out of this list Wonderwall is a beauty...
(For some rather nice mainly CSS-based sites see http://siteinspire.net/)
2009-12-16 12:58:16
But there's no Incredibox!
http://www.incredibox.fr/
I wasted ages on this site!
2009-12-16 13:46:57
Sorry - first link was supposed to be http://www.mcfc.co.uk/
2009-12-16 14:02:16
Some beautiful sites collected here, and i love the interaction as well! I think the soapbox from red bull was my favourite, though i need practice i think!
As Daniel noted, it's a shame they're Flash sites. There are some gorgeous CSS sites out there (hundreds even), it's a shame FWA didn't consider any of them. Maybe next year?
2009-12-16 16:11:56
Visually, the GE or Wonderwall are sure winners, but I think all awards should go to BooneOakley.
2009-12-16 22:19:52
I agree with Nikolay that the GE or Wonderwall sites are surely the contenders for winning. I'm loving how user interaction is advancing in portfolio and listing sites. There is some really challenging and groundbreaking programming going on out there!
2009-12-17 10:00:54
Some cool effects. All take too long to load and function is lost in the form.
2009-12-17 18:05:54
I don't always agree with FWA, some of these sites don't even consider usability and efficiency. Playing music while preloading is just stupid, it increases download time, and anyone can make nice websites with beautiful images that takes ages to load as long as they have the money and time.
Real creativity and awards should be given to sites that actually takes everything in mind, might it be usability, waiting time, creativity...etc
2009-12-17 23:14:11
Really nice sites.
As noted, it's a shame no CSS included, indeed. It's just as hard to design CSS and with all the restrictions even tougher to get a nice result.
2009-12-18 10:29:49
the site site for car brand Saab is soo coool!! realy realy nice site. beautiful
2009-12-23 16:18:01
http://www.the-affair.com/ blows any othet t-shirt site out of the water.
2009-12-29 14:26:58
Has to be Labuat's surely?
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