"Founded by Kristoffer Tjalve and Matt Muir, the platform for recognising innovative and independent web-based projects has returned for 2025. Find out more about the creative gems that have washed up from the "the other web". Since its start in 2023, where its first web awardee was crowned (Lauren Walker's impeccable Rotating Sandwiches site) the Tiny Awards has been celebrating the "small, poetic, creative, and handmade" side of the internet - URL-based web experiences that sit outside the commercial realm, made by independent creatives."
"The sites entered into the Tiny Awards are creative projects that, as co-founder Matt Muir puts it, act as signs of our "humanity, in all of its visceral, stupid ugly beauty", and are almost certainly "a refreshing attribute amidst our current tech discourse", co-founder Kristoffer Tjalve adds. Based on the idea that the internet is, (despite the current landscape), "more than just social media, more than just vertical video, and that, at heart, it's a creative medium of infinite possibility", the Tiny Awards were Kristoffer's idea to celebrate hand-made projects in the hope to bring back the "funnier and weirder" side of the web. "We started Tiny Awards back in 2023 to call attention to all the lovely things still being published online," he says."
"While existing awards like The Webby Awards, might platform projects with big brands and budgets behind them, "the tiny remains too overlooked", shares Matt. "Arguably, it's typically these solo, bootstrapped, handmade passion projects that are more deserving of the recognition here." This year, the awards have received hundreds of nominations from alternative corners of the web, made by creatives around the world."
Kristoffer Tjalve and Matt Muir founded the Tiny Awards to recognise innovative, independent web-based projects. The awards focus on small, poetic, creative, and handmade URL-based experiences that sit outside the commercial realm. The Tiny Awards emphasise solo, bootstrapped, handmade passion projects that larger awards often overlook. The initiative is grounded in the belief that the internet remains more than social media and vertical video and that it is a creative medium of infinite possibility. The awards received hundreds of nominations from global creatives, a jury of 18 shortlisted eleven projects, and public voting followed with over a thousand votes.
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