We don't often share all the awards the studio receives. We include a ribbon icon in our portfolio if a project has won an award or been given particular mention in a book, but we don't usually create a news post about each. And it's rare we talk about the folks in the studio who are behind each of them.

I feel like that mindset doesn't serve the folks who spend many hours and lose sleep over them... and it doesn't serve our clients very well either. So, I'd like to publicly congratulate the crew at Firebelly and the clients whose projects have recently won awards.

TheQueerist.com
Will, Keith, Antonio and of course Lissa (our client + new BFF) are Type Director's Club TDC 55 Winners for The Queerist website. If you haven't already been to the site, check it out because, not only is it beautiful to look at thanks to Will, but it's super technically cool on a count of Keith, and the witty, in-your-face writing is all the brainchild of Antonio (and he still claims he's not gay...).

CPSarts.org
Congrats also goes out to Will, Keith, Tom, Antonio and the crew over at the Office of Arts Education at Chicago Public Schools (David, Frank, Molly, Nancy, Charles Bill + Emily) for the tech savvy, ultra clean art department website that has been accepted into AIGA's 365 annual competition. Antonio's collaboration with the CPS folks on arcitecture made for a streamlined approach with Tom's clickable sitemap. With that bare-bones text version of the site, Will created a super sleek + modern site design to compliment the logo he had already done. Tom and Keith finished it up with a custom Rails backend system giving CPS complete control over all the content on their site at the same time allowing them to reach out to the over 400 schools and citywide arts partner organizations.

Both projects will be part of gallery exhibitions and appear in their respective annual design books. Jobs well done everyone!