NORTH WEST COMPANIES DAZZLE AT 12th BIG CHIP AWARD
North West’s Top Digital Talent Recognised At Biggest And Best Awards Ceremony To Date
Press Release
Friday 10th June 2010
The cream of the North West’s Digital sector gathered at Manchester’s luxurious Palace Hotel on Thursday to celebrate this year’s Big Chip Awards, the North West’s annual awards for digital excellence.
The night was hosted by legendary Manchester broadcaster Terry Christian and saw 62 shortlisted entries from over 40 of the North West’s best digital companies and organisations competing for one of 20 prestigious awards.
Organised by Manchester Digital, the trade association for the region’s digital sector, and backed by media partners Insider and New Media Age, the awards lived up to their reputation as the must-attend event of the North West’s digital calendar.
The big winners of the night were Lightbox Education from Cheshire who won the Grand Prix and Best Public Sector Project for its engaging MP for a Week, and Manchester’s Stardotstar who won three awards including Best New Media Agency, Best e-Learning Project with its interactive exploration of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Things to Come and Best Application of Technology with its innovative iphone parking app Nosey Parker.
Digital Blah Blah won Best Freelancer / Micro Enterprise and scooped Best use of Visual Design for their design of Adam Rix’s website.
Manchester Museum’s Consortium, a group of nine art museums and galleries in Manchester, won Best On-line Brand Development for the on-line magazine Creative Tourist, which celebrates everything’s that’s going on in the city - the site was also shortlisted for Best Public Sector Project.
Manchester’s 11 Out of 10 Ltd. won Best E-Business Project for Pure Gym ecommerce website.
Digital agency Cahoona snapped up the Best Not For Profit Project for its website for the legendary Manchester venue Band on the Wall.
Manchester SEO experts PushON were awarded the Best Use of Search for their work on the Love Those Shoes website.
The Best Digital Marketing Campaign went to Iris Manchester for Wonderbra’s new Ultimate Strapless bra.
Manchester based Wooshi.com, the brand-new platform connecting the creators of rich media with potential buyers, was crowned Best Newcomer in the North West.
The Neighbourhood were awarded the Best Use of Animation for its video for Nord Anglia Education - Craig Knowles and David Ridges were commended in this category for their Bon Appetit project.
Connect2Media took home the Game of the North Award for its web-spinning iphone game Arachnadoodle.
The Big Chip International Award for Innovation went to Studio Liddell and Magic Lantern’s Bugbear website for BBC Children’s.
This year’s Big Chip saw the launch of two brand-new North of England awards, the Big Green Chip Award and the Little Chip Student Award. The DTP Group took the Big Green Award for its Managed Print & Copy Services at Leeds Metropolitan University whilst Andreas Linden from the University of Central Lancashire won the Little Chip Student Award.
The panel of judges, chaired by Michael Nutley, editor of New Media Age magazine, and including Gavin Ailes of Searchworks, Peter Cowley of Endemol, Alasdair Rawsthorne of the University of Manchester, Steve Smith of Liverpool Vision and Channel 4’s commissioning editor for education and new media Matt Locke had a tough job selecting the winners from one of the strongest Big Chip shortlists to date.
The headline sponsor of the 2010 Big Chip Awards were Vision+Media. The other sponsors were 2ergo, Insider, Manchester Metropolitan University, Marketing Manchester, Melbourne Server Hosting, MIDAS, Montpelier, New Media Age, Archant an
