Events

A date, a place, and a reason to turn up.

27 winners · best 8.17

The Pick

The New Mobile WorkforceRace Day requires optimal performance. Take a look at how the Citrix team uses data to analyze, model, & design the car. The look: cinematic realism, a full-bleed motion-blurred hero photograph with thin all-caps overlay type and a scroll prompt reads like a title card from a TV commercial.

20 Years of Xbox MuseumTo celebrate Xbox's 20th anniversary, we created a microverse featuring six 3D environments. Explore together with avatars and generate a personalized museum using account data. The look: cinematic 3D product render, photoreal CG diorama of consoles on a dark plinth with neon rim-lighting and floating glossy icons.

Design CanadaThrough the lens of graphic design, Design Canada follows the transformation of a nation from a colonial outpost to a vibrant and multicultural society. The look: Swiss modernist, helvetica in tight left-aligned blocks on a strict column grid, with a single flat geometric red mark on black.

2021 Virtual WebbysOur virtual platform allowed viewers of the 2021 Webby Awards to watch the full show or cherry-pick individual elements, in an appropriately digital ode to the best of the internet. The look: digital brutalist glitch, clashing neon green/magenta over stark black-and-white type fragments, glitch-repeated lettering and chrome-white 3D tubes create a deliberately broken, screen-native collage.

C2 MontréalC2 Montréal is Canada's premier creative-business event, bringing together some of the world's most innovative minds to Montreal every year. The look: Swiss modernist poster, oversized Helvetica-style headline locked into a hard black grid block, with overlapping translucent geometric circles as the sole image.

OceanX 2025Unseen were commissioned to create an immersive timeline, highlighting the important work and missions OceanX carried out through the year of 2025. The look: cinematic sci-fi HUD, a glowing photoreal globe on deep navy with grotesk display type, monospace micro-labels and a pill CTA reads like a space-mission title card.

Next.js ConfNextjs Conf is here! The look: 8-bit arcade revival, glowing blue pixel-block letterforms on a dark grid with scanline noise read as retro arcade screen typography.

MoMoneyMoney: it’s all about change. Discover its story at MoMoney, the interactive Museum of Money. The look: sticker-pop maximalism, oversized condensed green display type overlapped by hot-pink smiley and dollar stickers on a flat saturated field. Its headline: “MoMoney, the Museum of Money in Dallas: Dallas’s interactive money museum.”

IventionsIventions crafts world-class spaces & events that create memories, initiate conversations and elevate ambitions. The look: Swiss modernist poster, huge bleeding grotesque wordmark, flat diagonal colour blocks and a single tilted photo on an off-white field. Its headline: “Step into the Spotlight.”

Warhol ArtsAn American artist, producer, designer, writer, magazine publisher, and film director, a prominent figure in the history of the pop art movement and contemporary art as a whole. The look: editorial fashion poster, a dark, dramatically lit portrait bleeding into black with an oversized condensed sans headline and a contrasting italic script signature. Its headline: “Andy Warhol by BL/S® A Curated Vision of Iconic Contemporary Art.”

Wild Week - AthensA home for our Wild Week in Athens. Made to bring our remote team together, celebrate our work, and create space for connection beyond the day-to-day. The look: neoclassical revival, white plaster frieze figures, an amphora motif and chiselled blue Greek-style lettering on stone-grey.

FlowFest 2025The No.1 Fest for Web Designers & Devs. Friday 8th August, Manchester, UK. Get Your Ticket for Community-Led Event of the Year. The look: 1970s retro revival, rounded groovy display type with drop shadows, cream ground, and concentric pink-orange-yellow rainbow arcs. Its headline: “Webflow chat, festival vibes, good times.”

Digital Design Days XDigital Design Days X is the new traveling DDD event, bringing inspiration, education, and networking to local communities. The look: Swiss modernist poster, huge tight-tracked Helvetica-style headlines locked to a strict grid over an abstract geometric gradient field.

TobaccoIndustrial, fresh, innovative. A former tobacco auction house has become the stage for stunning cultural performances and events in the heart of Amsterdam. The look: cinematic poster hero, a full-bleed dramatic stage photograph with a heavy condensed sans title stacked over it, like a movie one-sheet.

OFFFForumA one-week festival convening designers, artists, and digital culture practitioners. Where talent sparks innovation. Its headline: “A WEEK OF DESIGN, ART & DIGITAL CULTURE · OFFF SEPT 2–3 · FORUM · SEPT 4, 2026 · SAT, MONTRÉAL.”

KaleidaKaleida is an award winning global experiential company with a unique specialism in holographic and immersive experiences. The look: sci-fi tech spectacle, a glowing particle whale on black with thin all-caps HUD-style labels and a wireframe globe. Its headline: “Creating The Impossible.”

Vibrant WellnessExplore the future of wellness diagnostics through an interactive 3D journey. Discover gut, hormone, cardio, and neural health insights with Vibrant Wellness. The look: 3D medical rendering, a translucent 3D human bust with a highlighted magenta brain floats in a soft pastel gradient, overlaid with thin grid lines and light sans-serif type.

Wilde Weide FestivalThe vibrating website for the new Wilde Weide Festival that translates the creativity of the music festival and it's performers to the web. Design: Hamid Sallali, artwork: Niek Willems. The look: punk collage poster, cut-out photo fragments layered over oversized black type on acid yellow, with a heavy bold sans and scattered scrap imagery.

No ArtAn immersive digital platform for No Art, bringing its global music and art universe to life through interactive storytelling, releases and events. The look: post-digital techno flyer, liquid chrome render, crop marks, tiny monospaced all-caps labels and scrawled handwritten logo on a grainy off-white panel.

Deep BeautyThe immersive digital experience for Deep Beauty, the art exhibition created by Ogilvy Italia for KIKO Milano. A journey into the essence of photography. The look: psychedelic poster revival, swirling acid-toned dye-blot field with hand-brushed display lettering centred over it.

Ford M-Sport Raptor T1+Website experience showcasing the M-Sport Ford Raptor T1+, built to compete in the Ultimate classification of Dakar 2025 - the world’s toughest rally. The look: motorsport tech editorial, a hero product shot cropped under an oversized wide geometric wordmark, with thin technical labels in a bottom bar.

Truck’N Roll®Truck’N Roll® is a logistics company built for the fast world of live entertainment. For over three decades, we’ve been trusted to move the gear behind the biggest tours. The look: rock poster brutalism, huge condensed sans slammed tight in white on black with a skewed slab logo lockup over moody vehicle photography. Its headline: “FULL TOURS, NO EXCUSES.”

RPA COMUNICACIÓNA website that translates the new brand system into digital with precision, using typography, graphics, color and custom interactions to create a bold, clear and functional interface. The look: gig poster punk, duotone red photo cropped into an angular shard with heavy condensed type overlapping it.

TELETECHTeletech is the premiere techno events and apparel brand. Bringing the hardest, fastest and most stacked line ups in the scene to your doorstep. The look: 1980s wireframe vector graphics, magenta wireframe object floating on a perspective grid in black space with scanline noise and monitor-style status text.

SOILWe designed and developed the website for SOIL, a project led by the Japan Performing Arts Solidarity Network (JPASN) that promotes Japanese performing arts on a global stage. The look: editorial broadsheet typography, giant tracked-out serif wordmark over ruled horizontal lines, dateline and small caps nav mimic a newspaper front page.

UFL GAMEAn immersive soccer experience for the brand-new game UFL, free and fair to play. Dive into an interactive page scroll and score a great goal! The look: dark cinematic sports-brand, full-bleed halftoned dark body imagery with red rim light, condensed uppercase micro-nav and a slim slide-dot rail.

BroedBroed is turning November 2024 into the Month of the Creative Professional, a month full of inspiring activities in and around Utrecht, NL. A great opportunity to meet, join and grow! The look: contemporary Dutch graphic design, oversized condensed sans headline with outlined letters layered over a glossy blue blob render on deep maroon.

Every site here won a Site of the Day or a Site of the Month. 27 carry this category; the 27 shown are the ones we hold full marks and a palette for, best score first. Scores, categories and each team's own description are published by Awwwards. Studios' own portfolios are excluded throughout.

How event websites are designed

Event Website Design in 2026

What sets them apart

Filters and Effects: images altered live — blur, grain, distortion. 30% of event winners, 7% of all winners.
Sound-Audio: the page makes sound. 19% of event winners, 9% of all winners.
Microinteractions: small reactions — a button answers when you touch it. 37% of event winners, 20% of all winners.
Colorful: several strong colours at once. 37% of event winners, 22% of all winners.
Transitions: smooth changes from one screen to the next. 30% of event winners, 21% of all winners.

What they share with every winner

Animation: things move. 67% of event winners.
3D: objects with real depth, that you can turn or move around. 33% of event winners.
Clean: a lot of empty space left alone. 22% of event winners.
Typography: headlines set enormous, so the words are the picture. 19% of event winners.
Scrolling: long pages you scroll down. 19% of event winners.

What they are built with

GSAP on 26% · WebGL on 26% · CSS on 15% · Three.js on 15% of event winners.

Event website color palettes

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