Acclaim Archives
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Visitphilly.com wins tons of awards and captures eyeballs galore
January 24, 2012
According to the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC), the visitphilly.com website, which was designed and developed by Happy Cog and the GPTMC, was the recipient of numerous honors, including two Davey awards, four Communicator awards, two W3 awards, and Travel Weekly’s Magellan award. To boot, visitphilly.com traffic continues to increase. Read more
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Zeldman will be first SXSW Hall of Fame inductee
November 17, 2011
South by Southwest Interactive has announced that Happy Cog founder and executive creative director Jeffrey Zeldman will be the first inductee in the powerhouse interactive conference’s Hall of Fame. Active since 1995 and attended by thousands annually, South by Southwest Interactive is an incubator of cutting-edge technologies featuring five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology. In addition to founding Happy Cog, Jeffrey Zeldman is the author of the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, the publisher and founder of A List Apart Magazine, and publisher and co-founder of A Book Apart. Congratulations, sir!
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Perfect score: Interactive Media Awards honors Happy Cog and Harvard University with Best-In-Class award
November 9, 2011
Happy Cog, along with Harvard University, has won a “Best In Class” Interactive Media Award for the recent redesign of harvard.edu in the “university” category. Harvard.edu scored a perfect 500 out of 500. The site was only the third to achieve a perfect score in 2011 from over 3,000 entries. It is also only the eighth to achieve a perfect score since IMA’s inception in 2005, from nearly 16,500 entries submitted. Read more
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Happy Cog wins Interactive Media Award for “Cognition”
October 21, 2011
Happy Cog has won a “Best In Class” Interactive Media Award for our company blog, Cognition in both the “community” and “blog” categories. Happy Cog beat out a combined 134 other category entries for the honor. Read more
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Happy Cog wins Webby award for Zappos.com work
May 4, 2011
Happy Cog’s work on Zappos.com won the People’s Voice Award in the “Best Navigation/Structure” category for the 15th Annual Webby Awards. That makes 2 IMA awards and a Webby for Zappos.com. We are humbled and proud. Read more
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Happy Cog wins .net Magazine’s “Design Agency of the Year” Award
November 22, 2010
Happy Cog has been named the 2010 “Design Agency of the Year” at the prestigious and industry-leading .net Awards. The award was presented at a ceremony held in London November 18, 2010. The .net Awards celebrate the best in web design and development, and are produced by the world’s best-selling magazine for web builders. Read more
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Happy Cog wins two more IMA awards
November 8, 2010
Since our announcement that Happy Cog won a “Best In Class” Interactive Media Award in the travel/tourism category for VisitPhilly.com, we won two more IMAs. Both are “Best In Class” awards – the first in the marketing category where VisitPhilly.com took the honors again, and the second in the retail category for our work on Zappos.com. Read more
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Happy Cog wins Interactive Media Award for VisitPhilly.com
October 29, 2010
Happy Cog has won a ‘Best In Class’ Interactive Media Award for the official Philadelphia tourism site, visitphilly.com in the travel/tourism category. Happy Cog beat out 120 other category entries for the honor. Read more
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Cogs and ‘Camp
April 1, 2010
At 37signals, Happy Cog founder (and “King of Web Standards”) Jeffrey Zeldman discusses how the Happy Cog team uses Basecamp to coordinate projects across three studios and maintain accurate client communications.
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Biz Journal Profiles Cog
August 21, 2009
“Happy Cog Studios, the New York-based boutique Web design firm that did most of its work for customers out of Center City, has added an office on the West Coast.” So begins The Philadelphia Business Journal’s coverage of the Airbag and Happy Cog merger, and its profile of Happy Cog East business leaders Greg Hoy and Robert Jolly.