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2002 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Web: First Place

Takao Umehara
Art Center College of Design

Art Center Community website

Objective: Sidepanel is an online Art Center Community that bridges the gap of communication between disciplines. It has 3 components: communication (discussion board), educational support (design archives and design competition) and editorial contents (interviews from Art Center related people).

Tools used: Adobe Illustrator helped me design an over all interface. While designing, testing many different kinds of design was very easy to create in Adobe Illustrator. One of the featured functions ‘Save as web’ decreased the time to export web graphics and exporting into Photoshop by keeping layer and text information, helped so much with the final website implementation.

Takao updates his site regularly. Visit the current version.
*Current version is not the winning entry judged in May 2002.