Web 2.0 Awards

I looked at the winners for the Visual Arts. I though the first place winner: http://colorblender.com/ was pretty awesome. It's a really simple concept, basically you scroll through colors using an RGB slider and the site picks out complimentary color swatches for you. Or you can choose to edit each swatch individually. These swatches can then be downloaded into photoshop or as .eps files to use from your computer. This is a great tool for designers or anyone struggling with color ideas or just for fun.

The second place winner was http://www.swivel.com/. It looks like a site where you can upload your charts and graphs and make them look more visually appealing. I guess I can see where this would be a good source to liven up projects or presentations. Nothing on there really stood out to me as anything really exciting, though.

The third place site was http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ which "specializes in 'the visualization of complex networks.'" This site had beautiful designs based on things like subway maps, time lines, music notes, graphs, etc. It is all abstract and based on a specific data material and turned into a piece of artwork. Anyone can make a design and upload. I found this one on the site for a piece of artwork based on the dewey decimal system: