Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category

The CSS Awards tap Billups Design and Savvy Avenue

Posted by charles in Awards on May 20th, 2010

We couldn’t be prouder! The CSS Awards recently recognized savvyavenue.com as one of the best CSS-built sites anywhere! It will be entered into their ‘Site of the Year’ competition this fall. Thank you to a lot of people on this one: Steve, Bryant, Omnia, Bob, Nik, Christine, Courtney, Stacy, Ryan, Tyler, Charles and Ted. Great work, as always, everyone!

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Creativity International Awards recognizes The Stairwell!

Posted by charles in Awards, News on May 7th, 2010

Creativity Awardee The Stairwell Two sites we’ve been working on for a few years now were recently honored by the 40th Annual Creativity International Awards. In the Blog category, The Stairwell took away Honorable Mention honors, and in the website Category, highschoolsports.net received a Silver Award! Thank you to all the talented and visionary people who help make these two sites lofty standards in online excellence.

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BD Wins 2009 Outstanding Achievement in Website Development from Interactive Media Awards!

Posted by charles in Awards on December 9th, 2009

Interactive Marketing Association award Here’s a reprint of their press release:

CHICAGO, IL — Billups Design, Inc., is a multi-disciplinary core of outstanding talents in the areas of digital brand consulting, information architecture, interface design, user experience, multimedia, front-end development and application development. Billups Design also offers valuable services in content creation, branding, messaging, SEO/SEM and post-launch metrics., today announced that it has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Website Development by the Interactive Media Awards™ for its work on the Art Iron web site. The honor recognizes that the project met and surpassed the basic standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work.…

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DesignFridge UK honors billupsdesign.com

Posted by charles in Awards, Code, Design, News on October 20th, 2009

designfridge

We love our friends across the pond! DesignFridge UK has included billupsdesign.com among its best Web 2.0 sites of 2009. That’s a pretty nice tip of the old derby. If you have time, visit DesignFridge UK, and see their entire gallery of 2009 outstanding web sites designed and developed in html/css. To view our feature page, go here. Thanks, gentle people!

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Creattica features our web site!

Posted by charles in Awards, Design on October 16th, 2009

Thank you to the good folks at Creattica who recently featured the Billups Design web site as an outstanding example of interface design and HTML/CSS practices. You can visit the page here: Creattica feature page. We are already meeting many new people because of this prestigious feature posting and we’re excited!

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Web Marketing Association Awards Billups Design

Posted by charles in Awards, Business, Marketing on September 22nd, 2009

This is indeed something to celebrate! Billups Design has been once again recognized by the Web Marketing Association Awards for 2009, earning the Consumer Goods Standard of Excellence Award. We are excited to receive this award on behalf of Nike and the Nike ID Custom Shoe Builder application launched earlier this year. More exciting yet, the project was hailed by Nike as a major success and they have now designated Billups Design a preferred agency. Thank you to all the usual suspects – you’ve done it again!

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AIGA Chicago Recognizes Billups Design

Posted by charles in Awards on September 4th, 2009

We’re very excited to have been spotlighted in this year’s AIGA Chicago Annual 2009 for our work on the Nike ‘Show Your Colors’ digital contest campaign / HighSchoolSports design and code integration. We want to congratulate everyone on the team who contributed to this project here; your seamless integration, technical and artistic contributions in collaboration with our partner agencies made this project a rollicking success! And thank you, AIGA Chicago. We’ll see you next year.

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American Design Awards Honor BD

Posted by charles in Awards, News on May 5th, 2009

It has been a good year for Billups Design in the awards category. We are happy to announce that the 2009 American Design Awards have recognized Billups Design with a Silver Medal for its work on markshale.com. The site was rated for its eCommerce engine, usability and layout, overall brand and interface design and cross-browser compatibility. This is a high honor for us as we’ve always admired the other winners in this semi-annual / annual competition. Congratulations to everyone on the Mark Shale team (SB, SB, RM and RK) and the BD team (RN, TB, CS, SM, and OI)!

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Billups Design wins prestigious Horizon Interactive Gold and Bronze awards

Posted by charles in Awards, Business, Featured, Marketing, News, Reviews on April 23rd, 2009

Though the official announcement isn’t due out for a few days, we’ve learned that we took home two big awards this year at the Horizon Interactive 2009 competition. markshale.com won Gold in the eCommerce / Sales category and may win more honors. And Hyatt’s hotelvictorsouthbeach.com won the Bronze in the Travel Industry category. Thank you to our talented and brilliant team here at BD. And thanks to our innovative and ambitious clients who inspire us to do our very best work for them.

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