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Simple animations with simple explanations of mainly web stuff. Such as “what is twitter?”
http://www.commoncraft.com/

the results are in:
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/index.asp

and these are the categories:
Ambient
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Broadcast Innovations
Digital Installations
Direct
Environmental Design
Gaming
Graphic Design
Juries I-P
Illustration
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Mobile Marketing
Music Videos
Online Advertising
Packaging Design
Photography
Poster Advertising
Press Advertising
Juries P-W
Product Design
Radio
TV & Cinema Advertising
TV & Cinema Crafts
TV & Cinema Graphics
Typography
Viral
Websites
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design

I particullary like the Yellow pencil winner for Writing for Advertising (TV & Cinema Advertising)
Title: Michael Madsen
Agency: Mother
Client: Orange

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcLjYggK6Q4]

Campaign site done by agency: Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. Pretty cool tagging other sites, while listening to good music:

Another alternative to YouTube: http://www.blip.tv/
The difference being that the image quality seems to be better and that one here kind of can choose between different tv channels like my friends Hootan Mahallatis Rightpedal
http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Frightpedal%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F858508%3Freferrer%3Dblip%2Etv%26source%3D1&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

Some are quite rude, but others you might wanna wear. I particullary like this Jesus one. It says: “Jesus saves, after each level he passes”

http://www.phatrags.com/
Use this code if you want to save 10%: phat10a

Yesterday was Norways web-awardshow, Gulltaggen, celebrating its 10. anniversary in Oslo Spectrum. Unfortunately the project I worked on for Microsoft, Heroes happen here, didnt win. But you can read about it (and all other nominations) here.

Gulltaggen had a couple of good seminars, especially the one by president Will Whitehorn from Virgin Galactic. Great stuff! Sci-fi today:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APvW1OELo-k]

Another great experience was seeing the Reactable live. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. They performed live at Gulltaggen 2008 in Oslo[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoHY5eZUQM]

Easy web application to create your own font for free. They will be under Creative Commons license and hence free for all users

Test it here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

John D Boardley is from the UK, but lives in Japan. He has a great blog about fonts: