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<font size="2">"I would immediately visit any site put up by Derek Powazek."
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– <a href="http://cool.infi.net/">Richard Grimes</a>, arbiter of cool, interviewed on <a href="http://www.lawgirl.com/interview2.shtml">lawgirl</a>.
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"Derek Powazek has created one of the best designed and best written personal storytelling websites around, with impeccable attention to detail and aesthetics."
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– <a href="http://www.abbedon.com/">Abbe Don</a> in Eastgate's <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/picks/AbbeDon.html">On My Screen</a>.
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For more quotes about {fray}, see <a href="http://www.fray.com/is/quotes/">braggadocio</a> section.
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<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> received the bronze award for "Best Storytelling Project" in the <a href="http://www.newmedia.com/invision/invision-winners-wb.asp">NewMedia Invision Awards 2000</a>.
<p>I was put under a <a href="http://www.adobe.com/web/spotlights/fray/main.html" target="latest">spotlight</a> by Adobe.
<p>I was honored to be interviewed in Wired News under the headline: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33908,00.html" onmouseover="window.status='Wired News: "New Media Renaissance Man" - wired.com';return true" target="latest">New Media Renaissance Man</a>.
<p><a href="http://www.fray.com/" onmouseover="window.status='{ join the fray } - fray.com';return true" target="latest">{fray}</a> was selected as a winner in the Communication Arts <a href="http://www.commarts.com/interactive/index.html?/interactive/ia_home.html" onmouseover="window.status='Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 5 - commarts.com';return true" target="latest">Interactive Design Annual 5</a> in the Entertainment category. "The {fray} brings literature to the web with force and immediacy." September, 1999.
<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> won a Silver Award in the 1998 <a href="http://www.id-mag.com">I.D. Magazine</a> Interactive Media Design Review, June 1998 issue.
<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a>, <a href="http://www.kvetch.com/">Kvetch!</a>, and <a href="http://www.octopusmessiah.com/">Octopus Messiah</a> were praised in <a href="http://www.printmag.com">Print Magazine</a>, May/June 1998 issue. The story, by Sam Pratt, about innovative uses of frames, said: "Derek Powazek is part of this cadre of young designers who have pioneered the use of seamless frames."
<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> was featured in <a href="http://www.graphis.com/bks/OTHR/WebDsgnN/ds.WebDsgnN.EN.html">Graphis Web Design Now</a>, a hardcover book of "outstanding online design."
<p>I was the West coast team leader for <a href="http://www.web97.com/" target="new">Web 97</a>'s <a href="http://www.webreview.com/coolsite/cooltwo.html" target="new">Cool Site in a Day</a> competition. We <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/7408.html" target="new">won</a>!
<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> was a nominee in two categories in the 1997 <a href="http://cool.infi.net/csoty/">Cool Site of the Year Awards</a>: Best Personal Site and the biggie Cool Site of the Year.
<P><a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> won for Best Graphic Design in the WebINNOVATION Edge Awards, 1997.
<p>I was profiled by Jon Katz way back in <a href="http://hotwired.lycos.com/netizen/96/46/index0a.html" target="latest">1996</a>.
<P><a href="http://www.kvetch.com/">Kvetch!</a>, <a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a> and <a href="http://www.tweak.com/">Tweak</a> have all been chosen as <a href="http://cool.infi.net/">Cool Sites of the Day</a>. Actually, kvetch! was chosen as Cool Site of the Day and a Project Cool Sighting on <i>the same day</i>, the only time in history that's happened.
<P>I received the Project Cool <A HREF="http://www.projectcool.com/sightings/96sep.html">sighting</a> on September 25, 1996, for <a href="http://www.fray.com/">{fray}</a>.
<P>I've received the High Five Award for Excellence in Site Design twice: <A HREF="http://www.highfive.com/past/high_five_8.2.95.html">the first time</a> for the week of August 2 - 9, 1995, for <a href="http://www.divetravel.com/">Dive Travel Express</a> and then <A HREF="http://www.highfive.com/past/high_five_7.10.96.html">again</a> for the week of July 10 - 17, 1996, for <a href="http://www.tweak.com/">Tweak</a>.
<P>While I was still in college, I won the Silver Award in the PhotoJournalism category from the Society of Newspaper Design, 1993.
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