The Favourite Website Awards (The FWA), is a popular industry recognised internet award program and inspirational portal, established in May of 2000. To promote The FWA, designers from around the world are commissioned to design unique and inspiring desktop wallpaper for your computer, available for download. While The FWA logo is a common denominator in each of these pieces, the various designers and artists share their design direction and voicing. All the designs are available for download in a myriad of sizes, appropriate for your particular monitor resolution, including iPhone & mobile.

We did a post presenting some of our personal favorites some-time ago. It was well received, being one of our most popular posts of all-time, so we compiled some of our favorite wallpapers again. We hope these curated wallpaper’s inspire you. Feel free to download them or click the link below to go directly to The FWA site. Be sure to leave a comment and tell us your favorite one!

We are very proud to announce our latest project launch for Styleworks, an award winning interior design practice located here in Denver, Colorado. Styleworks focuses on creating inviting interiors for the commercial, multi-housing, hospitality and residential markets. They are professional and very pleasant to work with and have a straight forward approach to interior design.

Utilizing typography, vivid color, full-screen imagery, and a very thoughtful minimalism, the new site carefully communicates their company ideals and attention to detail, where everything is well intentioned in just the right place. Design, vibrant colors and drawing are some reoccurring themes discussed throughout the project, and played a significant role in it’s realization, with the colorfully interesting line-drawing on the site landing illustrating just that. Throughout the design process, we collaborated with them to create a site that is true to their branding/identity and their ideals of design, professionalism and integrity.

The site embodies some very cool elements through the use of some slick coding and is simple to navigate and find your way around. Styleworks creatively utilizes one of their project blueprints to visually and effectively communicate their unique design process. Their portfolio is simple and easy to use, presenting their work in pictures, moreover suggesting their capabilities and kinds of projects they take on.  They are unique in that they also create useful and stunning marketing instruments for their industry.

This site was a fun collaboration and exemplifies our philosophy of coming along-side a client and translating their vision and company into a beautifully-crafted web experience. We invite you to peruse their site and learn more.

visit site : : styleworks.us

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form. — Paul Rand

Today’s online world has become increasingly virtual, global, and interactive. We are no longer restricted to dial-ups or AOL screen names and search engines have exceeded anyone’s expectations. Who would have ever though “Google” would integrate itself into everyday language? As a result, websites themselves have grown so far from their splash page predecessors.

Websites are no longer only used to convey basic information with clip art illustrations; they have climbed their way into the ranks of the art world. Kalos Interactive recognizes the ever-present evolution of this new art form. As a web services company, it’s imperative to view the product this way to stay afloat in such a competitive market.

At Kalos you won’t just find graphic designers and programmers, you’ll find a creative and interactive design studio. We offer interactive design and art direction with an emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas, and communication goals. Oh yeah, and not one detail will ever go unnoticed.

We don’t build our clients websites, we create functional design and art that embodies companies, people, and brands. At Kalos, we see the big picture by helping give expert consultation on every aspect of the project. Not to say that we don’t build high performing sites, but we’ve found a way to balance our disciplines of design and function.

Kalos believes that just having a website to represent your company’s brand isn’t enough. Your web accessibility is essentially your most valuable marketing resource and tool.  Everyone has a website, but  honestly, yours needs to be better and more unique. You have to ask yourself whether or not your online presence makes the statement you want. Even if your site achieves those goals, does it accomplish them better than your competitors? If and when you realize your online persona isn’t making the cut, Kalos Interactive will be here to make you shine.

paul rand : : paul-rand.com

Awarding websites since June of 2000, The Favourite Website Awards (The FWA) is an abundantly astonishing accumulation of some of the best websites the world has ever seen. They describe themselves as, “An industry recognized award program and inspirational portal”. Designers and developers, from around the world, submit sites to be subjected to the assiduous scrutiny of The FWA’s varied panel of judges. The aspiring end, is the prestigious FWA website award, added web-traffic, and the glory and honor accompanying it. Design, navigation, graphics, content, and personality are the various criteria, which each site is judged against. Design however, carries a weighty forty-percent of the overall assessment, thus lending themselves to the design-forward collection of works they have become.

The FWA has curated some of the most imaginative and meticulously creative sites I have ever seen.  It is fascinating to view some of the archived awarded sites and compare them, for they have an entire decade of winners at your disposal.  The internet has come a long way from the simple HTML  pages, rendering mostly text and images.  Websites today are considerably more complex, having varied technologies including Flash, Java Script, Plugins, HTML, and  others; they resemble applications once only realized on the desktop operating system.

To promote The FWA, designers from around the world are commissioned to design unique and inspiring desktop wallpaper for your computer, available for download.  While The FWA logo is a common denominator in each of these pieces, the various designers and artists share their design direction and voicing, impeccably illustrated in these stupendous works.  All of the designs are available for download in a myriad of sizes, appropriate for your particular monitor resolution.  Additionally, this is a free service that The FWA provides for their visitors and junkies. I like to think of them as an added little bonus.  Below is a sampling of some my favorite pieces.  Enjoy!

visit site : : TheFWA.com

Formerly Art Partitions, LYNNEL Art to Form is striving to revise and expand the ways in which original artwork can be used in commercial and residential settings.  Their process employs digital technology to enhance and transfer artistic compositions to glass, acrylic, fabric, metal, and wall coverings for use in a wide range of environments.

In the original meetings to discuss the design and interface that would become the site, words like “architectural” and “minimal” were used very often, but in the context of separate disciplines. The website had to function as something of a unique entity, given that LYNNEL Art to Form crosses several bridges between the fine art world and the realm of architectural design and interiors. Should the site function like a portfolio of an artist, with pure imagery and an emphasis on the singularity of each piece? Or should it look like a site fashioned for prospective clients, often architects and interior designers, who are shopping for commercial design and fabrication services? The answer was it had to be both. LYNNEL Art to Form is a unique hybrid of both worlds, manifested by the collaborations of a hands-on artist and a Wacom-wielding designer, and completed by an engineering/business savant that turns abstract ideas into concrete reality. The resulting site design is deceivingly simple; it is an architectural-feeling layout with minimal text that emphasizes the company’s unique identity and showcases on a large scale the organic and abstract original artworks, both in it’s intellectual form and as a physical installation.

The final website is a smashing success, and even has an unintentional albeit very fitting meditative quality to it. The clean layout and ethereal art images presented with tasteful fading transitions (achieved with the fine Flash techniques of Mr. Steve) are curiously mood altering. Enjoy the experience!

view project : : lynnel.com