The Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards recognize excellence in print and digital content and are the most prestigious industry accolades, attracting several thousand applications each year. Live Design is thrilled to announce that it's content has been shortlisted for multiple stories for this year's Eddie Awards.
Last year, Live Design’s consulting editor and LDI creative director, Ellen Lampert-Gréaux, won for her in-depth coverage of the design and technical aspects of Super Bowl LV Halftime Show . This year, Lampert-Gréaux is on the short list in the Eddie Award category Blog/B2B General for her daily pandemic blog, The Forecast. The long-running blog kept the live event community informed of live and digital events as well as industry updates at a time when the pandemic threatened to destroy it. The blog appeared on the Live Design website, newsletter, and social media platforms and shared links to online training, webcasts, live-streaming performances, job news, and technical innovation to industry professionals who were suffering during the shutdown and missing their community.
Hannah Kinnersley's series of articles on the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, looked at the designers' journey as they created the most-watched live-for-broadcast event in the world, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The series included behind-the-scenes video interviews and technical diagrams and sketches as the lighting, sound and video designers worked with the technical director to overcome the challenges of mounting this mammoth international production during the pandemic. The series of stories is shortlisted in the category Series of Articles/B2B Technology.
Another Live Design story, Designing For The Metaverse: An Introduction To Encore, also by Hannah Kinnersley, is in the running in the category B2B Media & Entertainment.
Live Design is also celebrating with Hotel Management, another Questex title, which is shortlisted for an Ozzie design award in the category Website Redesign/Relaunch.
The winners will be announced on September 13 during an awards gala located at City Winery in New York City.