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Applied Arts Annual Awards Tumble Interactive Media won two awards in the 1997 Applied Arts Annual Awards competition. The first, for excellence in design in corporate multimedia is for the "ABC 1997 Fall Season" press kit on CD-ROM the company created for ABC Television. The second award, for excellence in Web design is for the World Wide Web site Tumble recently created for Novartis, the new company formed by the merger of Swiss pharmaceutical giants Ciba and Sandoz. The awards, given by Applied Arts Magazine are presented in recognition of "excellence and innovation in communications design." An international competition, this year's submissions were judged in nearly 100 categories in Advertising, Design, Photography, Illustration and Interactive Media. The judging panel was assembled from top design, advertising, printing and multimedia companies in the US and Canada. the buzz    awards Astrid Awards Honor Tumble Projects for Excellence in Design Communications The 1997 Astrid Award winners for outstanding achievement in design communications were recently announced by the International Academy of Communications Arts and Sciences. Tumble Interactive received four awards for projects it created for its clients. The "ABC Television '96/97 Fall Preview" press kit on CD-ROM won a Gold Award, as did the "Politically Incorrect" Web site that Tumble created for the television network's World Wide Web site, abc.com. In addition, "Politically Incorrect" captured "Best of Category" and "Best of Show." "Managing Technology", a magazine on CD-ROM that Tumble created for the AS/400 Division of the IBM Corporation won a Silver Award as did the Web site Tumble created for Novartis, the new company formed by the recent merger of Swiss pharmaceutical giants Ciba and Sandoz. the buzz    awards   Galaxy and Mercury Awards for the IBM AS/400 CD-ROM The 1996 winners of the 10th annual International Galaxy Awards Competition honoring excellence in product and service marketing were recently announced in New York City. Over 200 entries were received from 12 countries. Reni L. Witt, President of MerComm, Inc which sponsors the event, stated, "The winners are considered by peers in the industry as the best in the world." Entries were received from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Tumble took the Gold Award for best interactive marketing tool for a CD-ROM magazine it created for the AS/400 Division of the IBM Corporation. The first issue of the quarterly magazine-on-a-disc entitled "Managing Business/Managing Technology" contains information about trends in network centric computing, white papers on such diverse subjects as "Data Warehousing", and an entire area devoted to the lighter side of computing featuring games, puzzles and jokes. The Galaxy Awards honor professionals who contribute to the process of building image, creating profit and making a difference in the market place. The AS/400 CD-ROM also came up a winner in the 10th annual Mercury Awards. This competition honors excellence in professional communications. The AS/400 CD-ROM was chosen from among more than 800 entries received from corporations, associations, government agencies, public relations firms, and other suppliers from 16 countries around the world. Elements considered in the judging for the Mercury Awards include: how effectively the material met stated objectives; how well the material communicated to the designated audience; use of imaginative and original solutions; and overall expression of the message. the buzz    awards   Recognition for "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher", a Web site created by Tumble for ABC Television The "Politically Incorrect" Web site designed by Tumble to help promote ABC Television's late-night offering hosted by Bill Maher, was named a 1997 recipient of the Astrid Gold Award for excellence in design communications. Lycos named the "Politically Incorrect" Web site its pick of the week and gave the site its highest rating. Also rated as a pick of the week by Yahoo, the PI site has dramatically increased traffic to ABC's World Wide Web site. Also designed and programmed by Tumble, abc.com has experienced a 40% increase in traffic since the debut of the Politically Incorrect site. the buzz    awards   Hearst Corporate site among the Top 10 on the World Wide Web The Hearst Corporation's web site, www.hearstcorp.com, which Tumble programmed, hosts, and maintains, was rated the 9th best commercial site on the Internet by Lycos Inc. Lycos (www.lycos.com) constantly rates sites on the World Wide Web based on content, presentation and experience. The site was judged by Lycos' editorial staff from among 10,000 sites on the World Wide Web, and rated according to its effectiveness for promoting or extending a company's business. The results of the survey were published in Inter@ctive Week, a weekly magazine about the Internet. The review of the site on Lycos says: "All the important stuff you would want to know about the media conglomerate that owns the San Francisco Examiner and distributes the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip can be found on its corporate home page. And most important of all, of course, is the scoop on founder William Randolph Hearst's California-hilltop castle -- La Cuesta Encantada ("The Enchanted Hill"). Movie fans will be murmuring "Rosebud" as they take the online tour of the mansion that'll remind them of Xanadu from the movie Citizen Kane. An online history of the Hearst Corporation begins in 1887 when William Randolph took control of the newspaper his father received as payment for a gambling debt. Now the list of Hearst properties includes a chain of newspapers, cable networks and the columns of Dr. Ruth Westheimer." Lycos' also rated the Hearst site as among the top 5% of all sites on the World Wide Web. the buzz    awards   Hearst Corporate site given Editor's Choice Award Looksmart, the next generation of web directories, gives The Editor's Choice Award to the Hearst Web site, www.hearstcorp.com., designed and hosted by Tumble. This award conveys the highest standard for providing a useful and high quality website. LookSmart, unlike other directories that simply index the web and include anybody that asks, has editorial standards for inclusion in the LookSmart Directory. They have viewed literally over a million websites to select the small percentage that meet their high standards. the buzz    awards   Tumble Founder Named on of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers of 1996 Cal Vornberger, founder and President of Tumble Interactive, was named one of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers of 1996 by AV Video and Multimedia Producer Magazine. The editors of the magazine state that, "The Top 100 is not a ranking of good, better, best. Rather, it is a means by which we recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to their organizations and their industry." the buzz    awards