Furgoneta was a young food delivery service, and the client and contractor worked in the same city. The site was made by Sponge D&D, an Odesa digital bureau that by then had already been working with local businesses and media for several years. The bureau was led by executive director Kyrylo Solyar, and its founder was Bohdan Hnatiuk, under whose guidance the studio built its client work and participation in professional competitions.
Three platforms in seven days
The first to recognize the work was Awwwards, one of the most famous international web design galleries. The site received an Honorable Mention, an honorary citation awarded to works that did not reach the main award of the day but stood out from the selection. On January 30, 2016, Furgoneta made that list.
Just a week later, two more accolades followed in succession. On February 4, CSS Winner named the site Site of the Day, that is, recognition as the best site of the day, and on February 7 the site received the same status on CSS Nectar. Both platforms are catalogs where sites are selected for their visual design, navigation, and quality of layout, so landing in two of them at once is rare for a small project.
For a young service, such attention was good advertising. The client gained visibility among designers and developers, who often choose tools and contractors themselves. For the studio, it was further confirmation that its work for local businesses could compete on a global level.
Not a one-off stroke of luck
Furgoneta became part of a series the studio was building in 2015 and 2016. In spring 2015, the bureau's own website received Site of the Day on CSS Nectar, and in June of the same year its site was also given Site of the Day on CSS Winner. In August 2015, Awwwards awarded Site of the Day to another of the studio's works with a score of 7.03 points.
By the end of 2015, the bureau had collected enough awards for its portfolio to look like a consistent practice rather than a chance success. In December 2015, CSS Winner marked the website of the company Kvadrat with Site of the Day, and in March 2016 the website of Carts Guru received the same status. As of 2016, the studio's profile on CSS Winner counted 21 nominations, 6 Star statuettes, and 9 Sites of the Day.
This momentum is also visible in national rankings. At the Golden Site award in 2015, Sponge's website took first place in the "Digital Agency Website" category, and in 2016 Furgoneta came first in its nomination, along with the website of the online store Trendon. In the developers' ranking for 2016, the studio placed in the 13 to 18 range with 10 points, and in the VRK digital agencies ranking for the 2015/2016 season it came eighth with 29 points.
What happened next
Work on client websites continued in 2016. In June, Awwwards gave the Trendon site an Honorable Mention, and in July CSS Winner named it Site of the Day. In August, the Defence Group website received an Honorable Mention from Awwwards, and on CSS Winner the work received Star status. Meanwhile, the studio continued to participate in galleries in 2017 as well.
In August 2017, the Pyvovarov website received Site of the Day on CSS Winner with a score of 7.6 points, and the next day Awwwards awarded it Site of the Day and a Developer Award, that is, a prize for technical implementation.
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