Northern Futures
Northern Futures is a new award ceremony aimed at celebrating and promoting the creative talent and digital industries within the north of England. In its first year, Northern Futures is covering three creative categories; film, fashion, 3D design and fine art.
We were approached by the brainchild of Northern Futures, Patrick Murphy, to sponsor the Northern Futures project, and were proud to offer our digital services to help promote the awards ceremony. Based on a brand developed by Patrick, we designed and developed a website to both promote and administrate the awards.
The website we built allows users to register with the Northern Futures awards, and to submit entries to one or more of the design categories. As part of the submission process users are able to upload any rich media that would support their submission; videos, images etc. There is a nominal fee to enter the awards and we used PayPal as the merchant bank and payment gateway for the website which provided us with a payment mechanism that would be familiar to users and one that is relatively simple and cheap to implement.
Since its launch, the Northern Futures awards have generated considerable interest and the judging panels for each category include all of the names and organisations that you'd naturally think of; onedotzero and Warp X Ltd for film, Design Museum for 3D design etc.
We are really proud to support and be part of the creative talent up-north and are looking forward to quaffing champagne with all of the industry movers and shakers at the awards ceremony later this year (we'll tell you about it via our blog and twitter!).
