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Award Winners - 2008

The following are the 2008 winners of the WebVisionary Awards. Each winner received a Tin Robot in recognition of their achievement.

Advertising: Oden vs Durant

Created by: Substance Description: Promotional microsite for the NBA 2007 draft.

Web Application: COPASO

Created by: Darius Monsef
Description: COPASO is an advanced color palette tool that helps you create the perfect color schemes and themes.

Viral: LogObama

Created by: Substance
Description: A lightweight web application to allow users to create and share their own customized Barack Obama logo.

Video/Motion: Comcast Fancast

Created by: Method
Description: Comcast partnered with Method to create a site that offered unique features for discovering and learning about video available from a variety of outlets, including cable TV and other Internet sites.

Technical Achievement: TED

Created by: Method
Description: Method helped TED imagine how they could democratize their brand by shifting it from exclusive and elite to open and of the people. We created a variety of scenarios for how a website could make this transition and how an organization like TED could navigate the transformation.

Mashup: Explore Oregon Golf

Created by: eROI
Description: Oregon Golf Association (OGA), a non-profit golfing association, invited eROI to create a dynamic online web application that enables users to search for golf courses using criteria such as course type, location and rates, providing detailed information back to the user about each course.

Interactive Campaign: Artemis Eternal Microsite

Created by: Greg Martin
Description: The Artemis Eternal web site is an interactive timeline covering the production process of a community-supported short film (Artemis Eternal).

Games: Ramps

Created by: Tyler Sticka
Description: Ramps started for me as an exercise in dynamic, ActionScript-driven Flash physics and grew into my first full-fledged, fully-featured game created entirely by my lonesome (though with much help from Keith Peters' fantastic book, Foundation Actionscript Animation).

Educational/Resource: Mathematics Illuminated

Created by: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Description: Mathematics Illuminated is a thirteen-part series for adult learners and high school teachers. The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.

Community: Colour Lovers

Created by Darius Monsef
Description: COLOURlovers is a Web 2.0, color + design community website that provides the world with color inspiration and color trends for their personal and professional creative projects.

Business: Bambu Home

Created by: Substance
Description: This was a complete redesign of bambuhome.com. They wanted to showcase their products, but also needed to communicate their commitment to renewable ideas and resources, as well as talk about their business and personal philosophies and how these shape their company and its business practices.

Blog: Shutterfly Storytelling

Created by: BLOOM
Description: The goal for Shutterfly Storytelling was to create a web environment where users could express and share their opinions, insights and experiences about using photos as a storytelling tool.

Best of Show: Colour Lovers

Created by Darius Monsef
Description: COLOURlovers is a Web 2.0, color + design community website that provides the world with color inspiration and color trends for their personal and professional creative projects.