2008 skyscraper festival
The Winners
On Friday night Graham Fink, Creative Director of M&C Saatchi, Designer Peter Saville and HYPtv’s Creative Director Bob Palmer finally sat down to review the shortlist. After 90 minutes, a few beers and the odd heated debate the judges chose a winner.
Congratulations to KAL for Watching. ‘An ironic comment on life in a modern city…you’re watching it while it’s watching you’ said Peter. Graham thought the winning entry made great use of the space and position of the screen. Bob enjoyed the graphic simplicity and impact of the piece.
It was a close run thing though. Amalgamide Tide pt.04 by tarasik81 came a close second. The judges were impressed by the beautiful choreography of the elements to form a mesmerising piece of work.
In 3rd place was Filmcollins’ Sky. A very simple concept that employed the screen proportions to very good effect.
Others singled out for praise were Time Flies, Egg & Chips, Battleships, Paterson 2, Iron Bridge, XYZ, History Dumped, Amalgamide Tide 03, The Box and Landing Lights.
Finally, congratulations to all those who reached the shortlist and thank you to all who entered.
The top 24 entries will be screened for a week each on the Manchester Tower while work from the winner will be seen for the entire 6 months of the Festival. Please take time to check them out right now.
The complete shortlist
Fractal Zoom - dingolovethrob
Sky - filmcollins
Time Flies - dingolovethrob
Amalgamide Tide 4 - tarasik81
Future Shock - chimlee
Amalgamide Tide 3 - tarasik81
Feel Free - mate_karate
How big is big - grandvisual
Digital Love - film collins
Lido 2 Cheers - sky
Exit 2000 - exit2000
XYX - mahoganyrug
Landing Lights - mahoganyrug
Rush Slice - JeanManzon
Gabble - janestobart
PFO - meeotch
The Box - GraphicQuarter
Dirty Henry - dirtyhenry
Battleships - mahoganyrug
Patterson 2 - mike
History Dumped - rhaps
Watching - CAL
Iron Bridge - mole
Egg & Chips Vol 2 - rebeloverlay
Summer - snookie79
In addition a number of other pieces of work just fell short iof the 25 or were submitted a little late. The HYPtv team thinks some of these were worthy of a top 25 place.
Skylapse - VJdrmo
Eyedent 106 - cycloptic
Elevator - mike
Tram - Nickpeeka
Garden - KAL