Welcome to the PhizzPop Design Challenge Finale!

LIVE from Pangaea in Austin Texas during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival

Our PhizzPop Design Challenge winning agencies from our five previous tour stops around the country are converging in Austin for a one-night, pull out all the stops, grand finale event in the city that’s also playing host to SXSW.

The PhizzPop Design Challenge is a web design and development competition. It is comprised of the PhizzPop Tour, a set of in-person challenges targeting top U.S. agencies; and PhizzPop Online, a set of four online challenges targeting the broad community of Web professionals worldwide. This Live Stream is from the Finale of the PhizzPop tour. To get involved in the online global competition, head to www.phizzpop.com to show your stuff.

You can also Follow the action live on Twitter!

View Solutions from each Region

New York

Congratulations to Vectorform’s design challenge team members Peter Ruthenberg, Kevin Foreman, and Justin Bush, for their outstanding design collaboration and innovative education interface. Excellent work! Click to see the video and information about the New York Design Challenge.

Chicago

Special recognition goes to Brian Henkel, Kevin Panke, and Dan Thompson, Manifest Digital’s design challenge team members. Congratulations on their excellent design collaboration and creative solution to Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Bid Awareness challenge! Click to see the video and information about the Chicago Design Challenge.

Los Angeles

Congratulations to Mike Lucaccini, Danny Riddell and Guido Russo, the design challenge team members of Archetype. Together, they created an experience focused on the needs of particular constituencies of the music industry, addressing many of the key challenges, such as ever more elusive mega-hits, rising niche artists, and the question of social media. Click to see the video and information about the Los Angeles Design Challenge.

Minneapolis

Congratulations to Christian Erickson, Chad Hancock, and Gregory Wurm, the design challenge team members of Zeus Jones and Sierra Bravo. Together, they created a winning next-gen proof of concept that clearly demonstrated enhanced online browsing and cross-sell scenarios as well as enhanced physical shopping experiences. Click to see the video and information about the Minneapolis Design Challenge.

Miami

Congratulations to Jason Bejot, Tom Duggin and Ryan Phelan, the design challenge team members of Phenomblue. Together, they created a digital experience designed to reinvigorate the pursuit of space exploration in the U.S. and capture the hearts and minds of Americans. Click to see the video and information about the Miami Design Challenge.

Final Challenge Statement

Your firm has been selected to create the platform that helps the citizens of Austin live more sustainably using current technology and social media principles. To enable this program, your team is tasked with building a comprehensive program that raises awareness, and informs and excites the citizens of Austin. Areas of focus are more responsible and sustainable forms of transportation, commerce, and community. Read the full challenge statement here.

Get in on the action!

Submit your solution to Challenge #3 of the PhizzPop Online competition to win a free trip to Aquent’s CRE8 Conference in Orlando, FL and other prizes. Visit phizzpop.com today!

Live Schedule

5:30-6:30pm Central Time Sensorium

Pre-PhizzPop event featuring demos by PhenomBlue, Cynergy, and Itibiti on Microsoft Surface and touch computing, and featuring Live Services

7:45-9:00pm Central Time PhizzPop Competition Finale

The Main Event! - Featuring Vectorform from New York, Manifest Digital from Chicago, Zeus Jones/Sierra-Bravo from Minneapolis, Miami Winner Announced 2/24, and Los Angeles Winner Announced 2/20.

The Judges

Thanks to all of the esteemed judges for this year's challenge finale!

Julia Allison, Founder - Non-society
Meghan Asha , Founder - Non-society
Gaston Legorburu, Chief Creative Officer, Sapient
Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President, U.S. Marketing, Microsoft
Howard Tullman, President & CEO, Flashpoint Academy
Dave Wolf, Vice President, Cynergy (Last year’s PhizzPop Finale Winner)