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Alvinology wins a Silver at W3 Award 2010

November 7, 2010 alvinology 1 Comment

Notice something different on my blog masthead?

I won a Silver Award for this year’s W3 Award for Project R – the wedding proposal I pulled off on this blog.

This came as great news, shortly after Rachel and I just celebrated our first anniversary cum shared birthday on 26 October.

Here’s the press release on the award win via omy.sg, Singapore Press Holdings:

omy.sg wins two Silvers in the 2010 W³ Awards

Singapore, 4 November 2010 – omy.sg, the bilingual news and interactive web portal of Singapore Press Holdings, was awarded two Silvers in the 2010 W3 Awards. The winners were announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) last month.

omy.sg secured a Silver for its Project R: wedding 2.0 (http://blog.omy.sg/alvinology/project-r) in the Viral Marketing – Blog category, and a Silver for its website (http://omy.sg) in the Website Features – Structure and Navigation category.

Entries were judged on a ten point scale by the judges. The highest award was Best in Show, followed by Gold and Silver. A category may have multiple winners, or no winners at all.

Websites were judged on their creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use. Entries for the Marketing category, on the other hand, were judged by their creativity, impact, messaging, copywriting, and use of medium.

Associate Editor Lee Kuan Fung said: “We are honoured by the recognition from IAVA, one of the most respected associations around. Omy.sg will continue to break new grounds in providing the best value and highest quality for our users and advertisers.”

The W³ Awards honours creative excellence on the web, and recognises the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. It is judged by the IAVA, an invitation-only body consisting of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts. This year, it received more than 3,000 entries in the various categories. For more information, please refer to http://www.w3award.com.

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Thanks for the recognition IAVA. 🙂

On another note, some shameless plugging again – Rachel and I need your help to vote for one of our photo (daily if possible as they allow for one vote every 24 hours) for Citi Mobile’s “Take Your Bank Anywhere” Photo Contest to help us win a trip to anywhere in the World.

To vote, you need to click LIKE on the Citibank Singapore Facebook fan page first. Following which you can go to this page and vote for our photo titled “Checking out the nearest Citibank Gourmet Pleasure at ONE°15 Marina Club!”:

It's the picture with the yachts, don't vote wrongly! Thank you! :) — It's the picture with the yachts, don't vote wrongly! Thank you! 🙂

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Alvin and Rachel needs your help to win a trip to anywhere in the world for their first anniversary!

November 5, 2010 alvinology 2 Comments

Out of fun, I submitted some of the photos Rachel and I took during our yacht trip a few days ago for Citi Mobile’s “Take Your Bank Anywhere” Photo Contest.

We were delighted to discover two of our photos to be among those short-listed in the top 50. Now, we need your help to vote for one of our photo (daily if possible as they allow for one vote every 24 hours) to help us win a trip to anywhere in the World.

This will be the perfect round-up to the one year anniversary of my proposal and also a perfect shared birthday present for us this year (we both share the same birth date on 26 October and I also proposed on the same date last year).

Vote for Alvinology - Vote for this picture hor, don't click wrongly :) — Vote for Alvinology - Vote for this picture hor, don't click wrongly 🙂

You can cast one vote every 24 hours. If you can spare the time, Rachel and I will sincerely appreciate your help to vote for us all the way till 15 November when the voting ends. If not, no worries, you are still a dear friend to us. 🙂

Actually, from my experience organising online voting contests, there are many professional contest junkies out there who create gazillions of phantom accounts for voting purposes. Case-in-point: just look at this screen grab – a particular faceless “Nur Hidayah” already have 5 such accounts showing on the Citibank Singapore fan page home.

Nonetheless, Rachel and I shall try to play this fair and square. Hopefully, our friends and the readers of this humble blog can help us create a miracle.

Thank you very much in advance! Regardless if we win or not, Rachel and I appreciate your help.

On a side note, my unique online wedding proposal, Project R, won me (and omy.sg) a Silver for this year’s W3 Award in the Viral Marketing – Blog category.

The W³ is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo! and many others.

I hope I can continue my winning streak after a series of bad luck recently by winning this Citibank contest too.

Good luck Alvinology!

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金表，一起度过黄金岁月 Gold Watches for Golden Memories

October 26, 2010 alvinology 1 Comment

Today is 26 October 2010. A year ago, I proposed to my dear wife, Rachel Chan, on the very same day.

Rachel and I both share the same birthday (though I am two years older than her). It was partly for this reason that I chose to propose to her on this special day.

Shopping together at Mustafa a few hours ago, I bought a pair of matching vintage gold coloured Casio watches for the two of us.

Thank you for the golden memories over the past year my dear wife. We have many more years ahead and I look forward to growing old together with you. 🙂

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Alvin and Rachel’s UP-themed Photo Shoot

August 3, 2010 alvinology 4 Comments

Photography by Eunice Chan, Rachel’s sister. Minimal additional DI by me. The photos were taken at the open space besides Potong Pasir MRT Station near my residential area.

We were trying to emulate the motion stills of the loving old couple, Carl and Ellie, from the Pixar animated movie, UP.

The photo we chose to use for our wedding e-invite

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Alvin & Rachel’s Wedding Invite Card – Physical Copies are now ready!

May 14, 2010 alvinology 9 Comments

I blogged about my wedding invite card design a few days ago. The physical copies of the cards have been collected from our printer. They are ready for dissemination.

Overall, I am very satisfied with the outcome of the card and envelop design. We reduced the tone of the sky to a light shade of baby blue to give it a more pastel, cheery look. The artwork was printed on Japanese wood-free textured paper for a hand-drawn, manga feel.

For the envelop, we bought the light-weight air-mail variety for thematic unity with the “flying” theme. The Chinese “double happiness” character was manually punched, one by one, by Rachel and I with a paper cutter we specially bought.

Manually punched "double happiness" paper cut on the envelop

How the assembled card and envelop will look

When I passed my parents their portion of the wedding cards and envelops, my mom was amused by the effort and cost we put into these as she felt people will just “take and throw”. I

told her it reflects our sincerity and we hope to spread our joy to everyone, with a little personal touch. The invite card is the first thing our friends and relatives will receive regarding the wedding and it’s important to give the right first impression. 🙂