AWARDS


The 2008 Flash Goddess Award

The 2008 Flash Goddess Award
Sponsored by FITC Design & Technology Events

The 2nd annual Flash Goddess Award is designed to recognize, promote, and reward talented women designers/developers working in the Flash industry. Applicants will be required to submit for consideration their online portfolios and/or projects they have worked on. They will be judged on concept, visual design, technical excellence, and the overall effectiveness to bring these elements together to give us the 'wow' effect. We wish to highlight women who are innovative, creative and inspirational in their production of interactive media.

Due to the small amount of applicants this year we will not be presenting the 2008 Flash Goddess Award. We are however awarding a few FITC tickets to some impressive contestants...

The 2008 FITC tickets are awarded to:
Kate Bond www.pushingink.com
Shauna Ehninger www.thedreadedgrove.com
Jennifer Kossack www.jennicartoon.com
Elysha Poirier www.elyshapoirier.com
Michelle Rueda ruedaminute.com


Sponsors

FITC
FITC Design & Technology Events

FITC is a Canadian company that produces engaging design and technology events that inspire, educate and challenge the best new media designers and developers from around the globe.
Established in 2002 by new media guru and entrepreneur Shawn Pucknell, the company has held successful events across both Canada and the United States and is expanding overseas.


FlashDen.net
FlashDen.net : DOWNLOAD. UPLOAD. PLAY.
FlashDen is a community marketplace with over 33,000 members and 5,000 files. At FlashDen you can buy and sell stock Flash, audio, video and fonts.


Friends of ED
friends of ED
publish books that offer a combination of inspiration and techniques to help both experienced or novice web designers and developers who are searching for fresh ideas or guidance. 
Wildform
Wildform creates Flair - powerful & straightforward presentation & e-learning software. Flair makes it fun and easy to create compelling animated & interactive content while staying out of your way. Compatible with Flash, but without the complexity. Create multimedia content the way you've always wanted with Flair. Get a free trial at http://www.wildform.com

2008 Flash Goddess Award Judging Panel

Ann-Marie Cheung

Ann-Marie Cheung
Founder, creator and editor
www.FlashGoddess.com

Freelance Creative
www.FGNewMedia.com

Ann-Marie, an Associate of the Ontario College of Art comes from a traditional art background. She began her career in multimedia and web design and development in 1997.
Ann-Marie founded and created FlashGoddess.com in 2002 to showcase and promote women in the new media industry.


Carole Guevin
Editor
Netdiver digital culture magazine & international design portal

Carole Guevin is an experienced communication designer, new media pioneer, theorist, philosopher and founding partner of Feed Your Eyes creative continuum, the publisher of Netdiver digital culture magazine.


Kristin Henry
www.galaxygoo.org
underground-lab.com

Kristin Henry is a programmer, computational artist, science animator, interactive data visualization expert, and all-around geek with artistic tendencies. In addition to working as an independent consultant, she is president and lead developer at GalaxyGoo, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing science literacy.

When developing educational applications and interactive visualizations of scientific data using Flash, she combines her academic background in science and programming  skills. In one of her recent projects, she developed an interactive visualization of ice core data for NASA.

Henry has presented at both industry and academic conferences including FITC and the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education.

She has contributed her knowledge of Flash in two books, including New Masters of Flash Volume 3 and Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8.


Nathalie Lawhead
Designer, animator, and coder
AlienMelon

Nathalie Lawhead is a designer, animator, and coder working with the AlienMelon team. Rumor has it that she had herself uploaded to the web, and spends most of her time there developing casual Flash games driven by chatterbot AI, and exploring ways to merge this into her interactive uber-media experiment BlueSuburbia. She currently resides in Orange County, California as a freelance tacktical-ops Flash specialist.


Raissa Mould
Freelance Flash Developer
www.mould-e-media.com

Raissa Mould specializes in programming Flash applications for online or off line use. Raissa is an experienced Flash Developer who has been working in this industry since 1996.


 

   
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