BR Wins Gold at the Summit Creative Awards

BR won gold in the worldwide Summit Creative Awards in the non-profit website category! Last summer, we worked with the Washington Tree Fruit Research Committee to design and develop a new website and searchable database. The website serves as an informational source with a searchable database spanning over 900 academic articles. The result of the redesign is a simple and elegant website that is easily navigable and unique from any other.

Over the last 26 years, the Summit Creative Awards has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of creative excellence. They recognize the work of companies worldwide with limited billings. With rigorous evaluative criteria and top international judges, this unique competition rewards those truly deserving of special recognition. The 2020 creative competition drew more than 4,100 submissions from 27 countries in 18 major categories.

The final design for the website was chosen based on the “gem themed” colors for each Annual Research Review page. The colors correlate with the fruit trees the Research Review pages are about: Apples, Stonefruit, & Cherries. While not a typical design, you’d see with an academic-based website – the final result was a refreshing, colorful, and simplistic design. The development process was a bit challenging with this particular website because of its size – there are around 900 (and counting) searchable research articles on treefruitresearch.org. This site also features a regularly updated archive of reports and report submission functionality.

“It was a wonderful and, at times, nerve-wracking experience working on this project. We had a lot of unique variables to consider, and we managed to pull this project through to a beautifully finished resource for the Tree Fruit Research industry. I’m thrilled that our project placed Gold.” – Farah F. L. Ali, Project Manager & Co-Developer

We are honored to receive this award and hope to carry the creative excellence the Summit Awards recognized to all web projects to come!

View more of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Committee website  HERE  in our case study.