Archive for May, 2009

This year’s Tasty Website Award is the first time a Big Chip category has been open to popular vote. We created this new award to fill a gap.
Since they were started in 1997, the Big Chip awards have built up a reputation for integrity and impartiality. An important factor in this has been the maintenance of strict judging standards and this in turn has mean developing a clear specification of the judging criteria for each award. That way the judges have ways to measure and compare the quality of the entries. So, rather than giving prizes to the…

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hearmanchester

In: Big Chip News

27 May 2009

In this guest blog post, Stardotstar’s Director of Business Development Gareth Langley tell us about their locative audio project hearmanchester.com. Commissioned by Manchester City Council the project is currently shortlisted for Best Public Sector Project, Best Use of Visual Design, and Tasty Website at Big Chip 11.

‘Heritage’, like ‘dietary fibre’ and ‘flossing’, we’re all agreed it’s important, but it’s not something many of us look forward to doing on a Sunday afternoon. Throw in the additional sex-appeal of ‘canals’ and ‘urban regeneration’ and…

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Tasty Website Award

Use your vote and choose the Big Chip Tasty Website for 2009!

Entrants for this year’s Big Chip awards could opt to have a website entered for the Big Chip Tasty Website Award. Then while the judges worked through the record number of entries in each category, we asked them to put on one side the very tastiest websites they found and make a shortlist for you to vote on.

The shortlist is as follows:

Entrant Website URL Codeword
Code Computerlove http://www.crownpaint.co.uk CROWN
Code Computerlove http://www.originalsource.co.uk SOURCE

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