I’ve just discovered that I’ve won a Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Award (in the “Best Culture, Lifestyle or Arts” category) with the team from 6 Moons and SBS for the Swapping Lives website, which I designed. Hurrah — it’s my second AIMIA Award! It’s been a nice to hear how well the site’s been received — lots of people were talking about it at the First Person conference,* and SBS say they’ve received some of their best feedback evar.
It was a difficult job with conflicting requirements that kinda snowballed out of control, but which I can look back to now as being all worth it. :) To those like Tom Cho who met me at the Writing Across Cultures conference last year and wondered why I rudely kept fiddling with Flash MX 2004 on my laptop during conference sessions, now you know.
* First Person was a continual love-fest. Someone next to me would be talking about how much they liked the Swapping Lives site, and I’d say “hey, I designed that!”. At lunch I was enthusing to a Canadian delegate about how the Murmur Vancouver site had inspired much of my work in spatial storytelling, to which she exclaimed, “that was one of my projects!”.
[ tags: aimia, awards, design, self-congratulation, swapping-lives ]
that’s amazing. my little sister was going to be the white girl in that project. i never found out what happened though. i knew that they had issues with funding and stuff, and wasn’t aware that it ever got off the ground. i was kind of petrified though, of the indonesian girl having to live with my parents, in the ’shire’.
joel
9 Mar 06 at 8:30 pm
congrats!
u=supahstah :)
Rob
10 Mar 06 at 3:24 pm
Rocking.
danny
14 Mar 06 at 8:45 pm
Yes, Ben, Congratulations! But, when next we talk, remind me to give you hard time for coming down to Melbourne and not calling me or visiting, like we discussed when I caught up with you in Sydney!
Mark
15 Mar 06 at 8:36 pm
Oops.
jebni
20 Mar 06 at 9:06 pm