As 2023 swiftly comes to an end, we thought we’d take some time to look back on the last few months of Driftime, a chock-a-block quarter filled with brand new projects, high flying press features, and a couple of notable award mentions that round the year up nicely. We wish our readers a restorative festive season, and look forward to greeting you all in 2024! Read on for our best bits…
🐿️ Short on time? Here’s the nutshell…
💻 Our 2022 Impact Report has been nominated for Readymag’s Website of the Year Award – cast your vote here!
🌟 Driftime was listed as a finalist for the _Shift People Awards for the “All-Star Innovation” category
🗞 Our work with Art Not Evidence has been launched with features in high profile titles including The Guardian and NME
🏃 We’ve seen the launch of our work with US venture studio Roadrunner, including some fantastic portfolio companies with visual identities designed by Driftime!
Would you vote for us for Readymag’s Website of the Year Award?
We’re thrilled to be shortlisted for the 10th anniversary of the Readymag Websites of the Year Award, with our 2022 Impact Report making the final five in the Impact category! We work pretty hard on sharing our impact in a way that captures our successes alongside our shortcomings, committed to iterating our process month on month, year on year. Watch this space for our 2023 impact report!
All-star innovation for the people
That’s right, folks! We’ve been listed as a finalist in the “All-Star Innovation” category in the first ever _Shift People Awards, a fantastic new awards series championed by Escape the City and _Shift. We’re honoured to be included in the line-up alongside some fantastic co-finalists, including UpCircle Beauty, Griffin, Sano Genetics, and sweet treat legends Tony's Chocoloney! Check out our write up and explore the insight guide here.
Art Not Evidence hits the press
In late 2023, Driftime collaborated with Art Not Evidence to design and build an accessible brand championing freedom of creative expression, a movement working hard to prevent miscarriages of justice built on unreliable, and often racialised forms of evidence. The launch has been met with high acclaim, with recent features in a number of high profile titles including The Guardian, The Times, Rolling Stone, and NME – check out our write up and explore the articles here!
Roadrunner Venture Studios makes its debut
We partnered with US innovators Roadrunner Venture Studios to design and build a platform and brand accelerating the future of the tech landscape, crafting a digital space for new deep tech ventures to breakthrough and excel in America. In honouring their headquarters in New Mexico, our design reflected the states history and heritage, as well as forecasting a hopeful future of meaningful and enduring innovation, experimentation, and scientific exploration. Read our interview with the team here!
Favourite five from the team
As a remote team, we have to work extra hard to connect in-person, but we managed to bring some of our wonderful team together during a fruitful volunteering day at Brighton garden Living Vital, and pulled together a full house to cook up a storm for our quarterly digital Come Dine With Me. Whilst we can’t always come together in person, we share digital gems through our weekly stand-up link shares. We’ve chosen five highlights for your benefit below…
🎛 Jo got creative with Patatap, a dynamic digital sound kit that brings interactive DIY music to the proverbial keyboard.
🦅 Holly discovered Audubon, the Bird Migration Explorer illustrating the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species.
🛝 Olivia found The Tech Playground, an interactive and immersive journey through experimental digital experiences.
🚀 Ed delved into the past with Why Time Flies, an extensive timeline exploring our perspective of time and legacy.
📸 Elsa took a few snaps with Paragraphica, a digital-meets-analogue camera that uses location data and AI to visualise a "photo" of a specific place and moment.