EMMAs redux

Back in 2001, I had the arduous pleasure of sitting on the jury for the International EMMA awards, taking place that year in Hamburg, Germany. Over the course of the Judging Week, the jury explored hundreds of entries, and focused in on a few very impressive interactive products.

While web geeks will find it relatively easy to find out who eventually won the various categories at that year's awards, I thought it might be interesting to revisit some of the more intriguing "also-rans", in order to see what the intervening 3 years have wrought:

http://www.britart.com/

Britart is a site promoting emerging and established contemporary British artists in a user-friendly and viable manner.
The site's motto is "Buying original art need not be an intimidating experience, we're here to make it as simple as possible."

http://www.rosieandjim.tv

The website is based on the characters from the popular television programme Rosie and Jim, created by Ragdoll Ltd. The award-winning company is also the creator of TOTS TV, Brum and Teletubbies. Consequently, adults might find themselves creeped out by the repetitive nature of the site's character interactions, but young kids will love this space where they can come to see their favourite characters. They can play games, use their imagination to create images and songs on screen, and lots more, whilst enjoying a safe and secure online environment.

http://www.childrensatlas.com

A worthy effort that doesn't seem to have been updated since 2001. With web tech having developed the way it has in the past 3 years, I can think of many ways to improve the UI on this site.


I'll post some more sites later...