Rob Ford founded Favourite Website Awards (FWA) in May 2000, a recognition program for cutting edge web design which has since served over 200 million visitors. Rob is a pioneer of internet awards and showcases, establishing processes and concepts that are now widely used around the world. His work has been featured in numerous publications including The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Financial Times, Penthouse, The Big Issue and many web related magazines. He has judged for most of the industry award shows, contributes regularly to other well-known web design sites and magazines (from all corners of the globe) and wrote a regular column in Adobe's flagship newsletter, Inspire (formerly "Edge") for 7 years. He has four bestselling books under his belt, Guidelines for Online Success; The Internet Case Study Book; The App & Mobile Case Study Book; Web Design, The Evolution of the Digital World, 1990-today, all published by Taschen In 2019 he also published The Little Trailblazers with Mendo books and Macaw Books, a children's charity book in aid of Unicef's work for children. Rob secured collaborations with Adobe (via The Cutting Edge award) in 2012 and also with Google (via Google's Creative Sandbox) in 2013. Rob is also a champion of mental health awareness and launched an interview series on FWA in 2018 to help bring the conversation around mental well-being in the industry out into the open.