2025 Winner:
Fifty Thousand Names

Created by Leo Scarin

Fifty Thousand Names was made in commemoration of every single man, woman and child who, as of March 2025, had been killed as a result of Israeli attacks on Gaza following the Hamas atrocities of 7th October 2023. Hard-coded into the site are the names of each of the 50,000 dead, their age and the circumstances of their death, arranged by their age at the moment of their death. This site is a memorial wall of the human beings whose lives have been taken. It’s a heartbreaking, powerful tribute to the human cost of war, which, tragically, would feature even more names were it made today, and a memorial to the very real people whose deaths lie behind the headlines.

“Feelings on winning? I'm ecstatic! It's a project I care deeply about and I'm happy to see someone else does too. Especially the Tiny Awards community.

Data visualization, even with the most poetic intentions, won't fix the ongoing genocide in Gaza. But it can draw a starting point that moves people to action, boycott, and daily exercises of building a culture of human dignity.

I hope this project inspires more coding against genocide. More forms of resisting it.

Tiny Awards is a special community. It is open, caring, inspiring, and it understands what building the web is about: autonomy and interdependence.

Making the small web is like learning to cook homegrown produce, whereas big tech is a multinational food delivery company.

In this regard, tiny is political. Tiny is revolutionary. It's what web culture needs and what internet platforms should give space to.”

– Leo Scarin

2025 Judges