Virtual Design Festival named event of the year at the IBP journalism awards
Dezeen has picked up two more awards this week with Virtual Design Festival winning event of the year and Dezeen's founder Marcus Fairs receiving the digital leadership prize at IBP's annual journalism awards ceremony.
The prizes come a day after Dezeen won two awards for Virtual Design Festival and another for the Dezeen Day conference.
International Building Press (IBP) judges praised Dezeen for demonstrating "ambition, imagination and creative flair with varied and engaging content" for Virtual Design Festival (VDF), which was the world's first online design festival.
Running from 15 April to 10 July, VDF featured over 500 pieces of content including live talks, performances, cultural collaborations, student shows and product launches. The content has received over 1.75 million page views and two million video plays. Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs received the digital leadership prize at a virtual IBP Awards ceremony
"With a reduced team and on a modest budget, the organiser put in place a wide range of virtual events, which spoke straight to the interests and concerns of its community," said the IBP Awards jury.
"They quickly and clearly identified where the need might be for sharing information and speedily pulled in an array of impressive, high-profile collaborators."
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