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

Bampants - Gunner