MACROMEDIA: Macromedia announces winners of annual People's Choice Awards.

M2 PRESSWIRE-4 June 1999-MACROMEDIA: Macromedia announces winners of annual People's Choice Awards (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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* Popular Competition Honoring Year's Finest Digital Works Held in Conjunction with Masters of the Web Mini-Marathon

San Francisco, Calif. -- Macromedia Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced the winners of the 1999 Macromedia People's Choice Awards, the company's popular competition that allows Macromedia developers and designers to honor new digital works created by their peers. With voting held last week at the Macromedia International User Conference in San Francisco, 22 winners were named in categories spotlighting various multimedia, print, and Web projects. UCON '99 also served as the venue for the Masters of the Web Macromedia Mini-Marathon, a six-hour competition benefiting a San Francisco-based educational employment charity.

"With the People's Choice Awards, the Masters of the Web Mini-Marathon, and a world-class line-up of conference sessions and keynotes, UCON '99 was a defining moment for Web design in 1999," said Brian Allum, senior vice president of worldwide field operations at Macromedia. "We are pleased to see such a vast array of groundbreaking works created with Macromedia products, and we are glad to see them honored by thousands of Web designers worldwide. Our warm congratulations go out to all 22 winners." With tight competition causing voters to name ties in three categories, the Macromedia People's Choice Awards honored the following works and authors:

Multimedia

Corporate Learning (tie): Customers, Conflicts and You by San Francisco Municipal Railway; and Training Games: Robbery Before, During and After by vs|interactive, L.P.

Entertainment: The Secret Garden of Mutabor by yenz.com

Fine Art: SoundBox: New Desktop Instruments by SoundBox Interactive

Business: Die neue S-Klasse Sinn und Sinnlichkeit by Mareike Schmidt, Scholtz & Volkmer

Interactive Education: driver-ZED by Electronic Learning Facilitators

Interactive Portfolio: Less Rain by Less Rain Kidsware: Photo Hunt in Yellowstone by Periscope Productions/True North Studios

Interactive Reference: A Journey into the World of Mozart's Opera by LORCOM Multimedia

Non-Commercial: e.s.p.r.i.t. millennium by Rochester Institute of Technology

Promotional Entertainment: X-Files Fight the Future Event - Shockwave Game by Click Active Media

Print

Identity: '5' Media Kit, Identity, and Covers by Stacie Hampton

Illustration (tie): Bus-A-Move by Refinery Design Company, Inc.; and Voyage to the Sun by Vincent Interrante Infographics: Let Ron Draw It by Nidus Corp.

Marketing Collateral: 50K Teaser Cards by 50K Design Management Posters (tie): Breathe by Stacie Hampton; and Vector-figures.01 by Studio 202

Type Design: Metro Manila Font by Akimbo Design Overall Awards

Best of Show Award (Print): 50k Teaser Cards by 50K Design Management

Most Innovative Use of Multimedia Award: SAMI -Synergistic Automated Manipulator Interface by Pitsco, Inc.

Add Life to the Web Award: Prince of Egypt: The Official Web Site by Media Revolution

Macromedia also joined forces with Masters of the Web, the annual competition among the country's top Web designers, to host the Masters of the Web Macromedia Mini-Marathon on May 25. The six-hour Web design competition gave designers the opportunity to develop a portion of a Web site for an initiative of CHALK: Community in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids.

Located on the Web at http://www.webmasters99.com, the San Francisco-based organization uses technology to empower and educate youth through innovative employment programs. Taking first place in the competition and receiving a new Apple iMac was Vision Factory of Apex, N.C. Second place winners were Team JUXT, by Todd Perguson of Juxt Interactive, Irvine, Calif., who received $500 from Comstock Stock Photography. Third place winners were a team of four design professionals calling themselves Factor 15: Joe Caccavano, Mike Caccavano, Brett Yancy Collins and Sharon R. Brown each received Macromedia Flash 4 authoring software for taking third place.

About Macromedia

Macromedia's mission is to add life to the Web. By providing its award-winning Web Publishing, Web Entertainment, and Web Learning solutions to Web designers, consumers, and the enterprise, Macromedia is delivering a completely new generation of Internet tools and technologies designed to transform the Web experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) has more than 500 employees worldwide and is available on the Internet at http://www.macromedia.com.

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