1st place winner

Seen advertising agency's website

By Marie Estaire


This mainly green and beige company website first catches the eye with its bold font and funny animated character, then with its concept of a store, where 3D images of goods that come live on loading and go still as you hover over them can be added to the “checkout”. There are also tiny objects you can drag around the page.

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2nd place winner

All around us* brand’s website

By Siarhei Plashchynski


Siarhei Plashchynski designed a trendy b/w page for a clothing brand featuring a custom cursor and a huge typography piece that moves below animated photos. Each photo leads to a new page with a detailed description and more hi-res photos of a product. All along the way, typography acts as one of the main characters interlaced in the gridded canvas.

1st place winner

Heliotropy

by Studio CRONICA


A charged-up website lit by a yellow animated beam explores two stories of Heliotropy’s founders. Each of the personal pages appears brimmed with draggable text, photos, videos, handwritten notes, naive illustrations, and even embedded music balanced with a mono-colored background and smooth scroll.

505

2nd place winner

Hayal & Hakikat

by Marina Meyer


The website tells a poignant story of Turkish convicts who had to be photographed with their palms on the show so the Sultan could decide whether they would live or die. As you scroll down the page, multiple centuries-old photos of people appear, flickering as if the photoshoot is still going on. The flow is sometimes interrupted by intertitles explaining one thing or another.

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Light beam

By Anton Repponen


This is a photo essay dedicated to light, carefully caught by Anton Repponen. Opening with a poem and a dualistic heading that crowns a photo, it goes on as a physical album that’s scrolled horizontally. Each photo emerges from the dark and holds a small number and a geo-mark. A subtle, precious detail is that in the upper left corner, you can spot a tiny illustration: the outline of the light beam shining through the photo.

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1st place winner

Roman Sazonov’s portfolio

By Roman Sazonov


Explore this highly interactive website on load and hover. On top of the strong typography, the above-all-pages 3D element, a custom cursor and popping animations, the designer integrated dozens of hi-res visuals.

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2nd place winner

Website for Wow typeface

By Carol van Waart


“Wow” is an artistic project that re-thinks typography through abstraction. The page starts with an animated 3D object that rotates and transforms as you observe it, and offers two typeface variations to switch between. Both subpages show the creation of the typeface through stories, colorful sketches, and samples.

Each category comes with first and second place prizes.

1st place winners:

  • an Awwwards Professional plan for one year,
  • a $800 gift card from TYPE01 font store,
  • a lifetime access to 3 courses from SuperHi.

2nd place winners:

All winners get:

  • a yearly Business plan subscription to Readymag,
  • a special excellence digital badge to add to their website,
  • a recognition through all Readymag social channels,
  • our swag bag filled with design goodies.

Readymag Websites of the Year 2023

Awards and prizes

Past-year winners

Choose the best website in each category:

  1. Impact
  2. Interactivity
  3. Self-promo
  4. Storytelling
  5. Typography