Press Release
Shogo Tabuchi Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for S5 Studios Website in Website and Web Design
Shogo Tabuchi honored for website and web design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that S5 Studios Website by Shogo Tabuchi, designed for S5 Studios, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Website and Web Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About S5 Studios Website
This website is the portfolio site of Shogo Tabuchi, and it combines design aesthetics with representational possibilities and update-friendliness. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 has made it a challenge for artists around the world to share their works with others. This has made online promotion more important than ever before. This portfolio site is a self-promotion project where users can catch a glimpse of the artist’s unique style through their sight, hearing, and touch.
About Shogo Tabuchi
Shogo Tabuchi is the founder of S5 Studios, a creative studio specializing in web design, interaction design, and UI/UX development. With expertise in visual art direction for video, stills, and illustrations, as well as front-end development, Tabuchi focuses on creating designs that bridge the digital and human worlds. His work spans a diverse range of clients, from artists and fashion brands to manufacturers and corporations, contributing to society by delivering innovative designs that offer fresh perspectives.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shogo Tabuchi a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Website and Web Design Awards
The A' Web Design Award is an international web design competition recognizing good web designs by leading web designers, coders and developers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to web designers, user interface designers, user experience designers and graphic designers from all countries. Typical entries include web design, portfolios, e-commerce sites, blogs, news websites and social media platforms. The awarded web designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/web
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/109845
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/109845
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!109845
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/263250
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- S5 Studios Website
- Function
- Website
- Category
- Website and Web Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Steel Blue and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- S5 Studios
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shogo Tabuchi
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #109845
Credits
- Team
- Tomoya Takahashi (Orunica Inc.), Nao Kakimoto, Shin Ishikawa and Kenichi Aikawa
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Shapely, Sharp, Skillful, Splendid, Supreme." S5 Studios is a creative studio that incorporates these five adjectives into the artist's work. It also serves as a portfolio for the commissioned works of Shogo Tabuchi. This website places particular emphasis on presenting the artist's ideas and strengths through the design, execution, and music of the website to create a vibrant user experience that draws on unique designs and cutting-edge technology.
- Inspiration
- Designers work on new tasks by drawing inspiration from the toolbox of knowledge and experience in their mind. The design concept for this website is no different. This website’s landing page is a dark space with floating particles, which alludes to how ideas coalesce in an abstract space. Users are led to individual sections, and as they venture deeper into the website, the thumbnails of projects are shown. Information is presented in more granular detail the deeper it is in the site hierarchy.
- Research
- Although sites such as Awwwards feature excellent websites around the world every day, there are many websites with similar designs around. I believe that each website should be designed differently as each brand is unique. In particular, portfolio websites must capture the artist’s individuality. covid-19 has limited how artists can share their works, making online promotion critical for them. It is thus important to create portfolios unique to artists by harnessing their ideas and strengths.
- Challenge
- Designing a website that captures an artist’s individuality is difficult. This design is not flat but spatial in nature, so we can only imagine how users will experience this space. It took over 6 months to complete this design as I had to repeatedly tweak the user flow and visual elements. In addition to creating materials to share the design aims with developers, the designers also complemented the work of engineers by collaborating on programming after they built the development environment.
- Realization and Technology
- Pixijs and three.js allow for asynchronous browsing in all directions, while gsap and css3 are used for finer transitions and animations. Objects are efficiently managed in javascript by using fewer than 100 classes, and the website’s responsive design keeps user experience consistent across all devices. A cms was built to update Works and Information. Due to concerns with a slow server-side cms, I used ejs to build a system that generates html automatically when Json files are updated locally.
- Operation and Interaction
- Start by selecting whether you want to browse the website with/without background music. Users can turn music on/off at any time when browsing. Navigate the top page by clicking on a section that interests you. I have created a larger clickable area for “Works,” which brings users to a page where they can scroll through the different project categories. Clicking “Explore” brings them deeper into the site and displays a list of projects. This site has a similar user interface on all devices.
- Project Duration and Location
- October 2019 - Designing the first draft February 2020 - How many prototypes will be designed May 2020 - Development work begins. Designed 160 pages of case studies and news pages Music and photography production September 2020 - Completed October - Published on the web
- Specifications
- Available in the latest versions of Chome, Firefox, Safari, iOS and Android
- Keywords
- Art director, Web designer, Portfolio, Design Agencies, Promotional, 3D, GSAP Animation, PixiJS, Craft CMS, Three.js
