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YDA Awards Open for Entries
The Y Design Awards (YDA), part of London Design Festival, is now open for entries. Covering nine categories, the awards recognise excellence in the UK’s digital creative industries at a designer level.
In 2007 112 of the UK's leading online design agencies submitted more than 420 entries for the Y Design Awards, and this year the organisers are looking for the best in interactive and digital design. The judges include respected practitioners from the UK’s design community, including Airside’s Managing Director and Founder Nat Hunter, AIG's Malcolm Garrett and Chris Walker, Director of Technology at Agency.com.
Entrants are encouraged to submit their work via the YDA Website.
The Categories:
The YDA Community Award
The YDA Ethical Award
The YDA Interactive Award
The YDA Dynamic Award
The YDA Open Source Award
The YDA Technology Innovation Award
The YDA Mobile Design Award
The YDA Mobile Technology Award
The YDA Judges Award
Winners will be revealed and prizes presented at an invite-only Awards ceremony on 17 September 2008 - the culmination of Digital Design Day (D3) at the Royal Festival Hall. D3 is a new initiative of the London Design Festival in recognition of the growing impact that technology and digital design has on people’s lives on a day-to-day level. A day of workshops and exhibitors promises the exciting collision of art and technology.
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