When the 2023 Lovie Awards were announced, we got the news that KUYA had been awarded Gold and Outreach had received Silver. Having two projects recognised in the same year feels like a shift — suddenly our work is sitting in a bigger room, and we couldn’t be more excited.
The Lovie Awards recognise digital work from across Europe that pushes how the internet is designed, built, and experienced. With a strong focus on craft, innovation, and interaction, the Lovies sit at an interesting intersection. Creative ambition, technical execution, and cultural relevance all have to show up. Being recognised for two very different projects in the same year feels like a meaningful snapshot of our practice at this moment in our studio’s story.
KUYA is a project that’s driven by rhythm and control: a portfolio site that doesn’t just show work, but moves with it. Color leads, motion sets the pace, and interaction holds everything together. The homepage was designed as a sequence, not a layout. Projects arrive one by one inside bold blocks of colour, hold the screen just long enough, then hand over to the next — so the site feels closer to a reel of KUYA’s work than a grid of thumbnails. Winning Gold for KUYA confirmed something we’ve been refining for a while: when interaction is treated as design, a website stops being a surface and starts behaving like a personality.
Outreach plays a very different game. Built as an interactive editorial experience, it lets you move through ideas around the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua. Instead of guiding users toward a single conclusion, it invites exploration. Five possible origins of ‘Oumuamua become five navigable worlds, each one unfolding through interaction, motion, and sound. Outreach isn’t concerned with efficiency in the traditional sense. It’s about creating the conditions for curiosity. Being awarded Silver for interactive storytelling reinforced our belief that engagement benefits the most from giving people room to wonder, and to wander.
What connects these projects is not their visual language, but how they treat experience as something active. In both cases, technology is used deliberately: guiding attention, shaping movement, and creating a sense of presence.
It’s also important to note that none of this was developed in isolation. Outreach was created in close partnership with Studio Gruhl, and celebrating the Lovies in London alongside Edada gave us a chance to recognise how deeply our work grows through collaboration and exchange.
For us, winning these awards serves less as a finish line and more as a reminder that we’re heading in the right direction. They encourage us to keep pushing a visual voice that’s confident in colour, driven by motion, and grounded in storytelling.
