- When
- May 2001 – Mar 2009
- Role
- Co-founder, Creative Director, later CEO
- With
- Antonio Gould
- Outcome
- A Webby-award-winning agency with a team of about ten at its peak, for Vivienne Westwood, the V&A, BMAG, Sprite, Mars and KitKat.
3form was a design and web agency in Birmingham. Antonio Gould and I set it up in 2001 while we were at university, and I was its creative director and later its CEO.
We built websites, content management systems, e-commerce, games, animation and print, and by 2007 we were calling ourselves a creative design and technology agency. Every site we made could be updated by its owner through our own system, 3edit. Our clients included the BBC, Sprite, Mars, KitKat, Vivienne Westwood, the V&A and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
At our peak we were a team of around ten. We were shortlisted for a Webby in 2008 and won one, were finalists for the Royal Television Society's innovation award in 2007, and were named Digital Pioneers the same year. In 2009 I decided to do a venture-backed startup, and you can't run an agency as well as do that, so Made Media took on 3form's projects and I acted as a fractional associate for them for a year.
Coverage
Browser 2.0“Reload - Browser 2.0 - The Internet Design Project”1999
“Work featured in this web design showcase book.”
Financial Times“Giving creative businesses a vital leg-up to the next level”2007
“The 28-year-old runs 3form, a Birmingham-based agency specialising in web design, online gaming and interactive tools, with clients including Vivienne Westwood and lastminute.com.”
Broadcast“Digital leader”2008
“Stef Lewandowski is proprietor of digital development and design company 3 Form, which he set up in 2001.”
Design Weekthe piece2008
“Stef Lewandowski, board member of Creative Republic and managing director of digital agency 3Form, says he started to think about the role of a creative director in 2006”
Made here
Made
Name in Lights
A UK-wide competition for a member of the public to have their name made into fifteen-foot Hollywood-style lettering and lit up on a Birmingham landmark.
Emily Quinton Photography
Wedding and portrait photography website.
First Light Movies
Website rebuild for a UK-wide fund for inspiring young film
Jamie At Home
Tips sharing platform for Channel 4's Jamie Oliver series.
Created in Birmingham
Blog about the creative and cultural city of Birmingham.
V&A Arts and Crafts
The V&A's International Arts and Crafts exhibition microsite: a virtual tour in QuickTime VR, a zooming object viewer, and a tile designer that drew over 14,000 visitors' designs.
BBC Midlands Today
A touchscreen game for the Public Space at the BBC's new Birmingham home
Khonnor - I See Stars
A Flash game to promote the new Khonnor album "Handwriting"
VivienneWestwood.com
A content-managed website for this international fashion house
Sprite Freestyle Arena
Promotional site for a £500,000 extreme snow sports arena at the Sheffield Ski Village.
Type Records website and graphics
A new website and graphic package for a fresh new UK electronica label
White Noise Central
Art and literary site focussing on the travels of two music writers.
3edit
A website updating system that let site owners keep their own website up-to-date quickly and easily.
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery website
A showcase for Birmingham's world class collections of Art, History and Science.
Doctor Freeze
A six level platform game developed for Jersey Insight.
LINE / ACG Snowballing
A flash game for the LINE / Nike ACG UK ski team
Mansion Impossible
An addictive, free property trading game: buy and sell houses on your way up the property ladder, making enough cash to get the $10 Million mansion.
Talks
- Museums on the Web conference (V&A Arts and Crafts)Presented at Museums on the Web conference.
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