Kickstarter celebrates 2013 in style

2013 turned out to be a very good year for crowdfunding site Kickstarter, not to mention the people and companies aiming to get their projects funded. Three million people pledged a total of $480m, resulting in 19,911 projects being backed.

It's not all bucks, either. Tucked in amongst the headline grabbers are projects such a school building a classroom out of shipping containers, which raised $16,567, and Grandma Pearl's Happy Canes: decorated walking sticks that received $5,039 of backing.

With a mix of embedded video loops and photography, with the minimum of text and links through to the Kickstarter pages for all the included projects, the JavaScript-powered site showcases its successes with the lightest possible touch and only occasionally blows its own trumpet; it's nice to see the moment where "If early inventors were on Kickstarter" is used as a Jeopardy category. In all, this is the sort of annual report that we can really get behind.

Words: Jim McCauley

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