Valve and our beloved clients collected a nice stack of awards in the Grand One 2008 awards ceremony. We received four Grand One category wins and three honorary mentions. We also managed to do a clean sweep of the “Best Design”-category, receiving all awards (category win and two honorary mentions) that were handed out.

UPM Forest Life won the “Best Design” and “Best B2B Campaign” categories, Drunk you’re a fool got the first price in the “Best B2C Campaign”-category and Widsets won the “Best Infodesign” category.

Kauppalehti.fi renewal received a honorary mention in the “Best B2B Service” category and MillionClouds and Drunk, you’re a fool were noticed in “Best Design”.

Valve is entering the gaming market, so now’s the time to check out the Careers section. We have open positions in Helsinki, Finland and in California. Interested developers and designers should simply contact us - this is an opportunity not to miss.

Valve’s “The Galactor and the codebrakers” -online game won the first ever European Consumer Campaign of the Year Award 2008. The game was designed and executed in co-operation with Finish Consumer Agency (Kuluttajavirasto). The game was aimed at educating teens and young adults about consumer rights and responsibilities, concerning internet and mobile shopping in an entertaining way.

The campaign has also spread outside Finland; the game has been translated in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. Also other languages are under construction.

The winners were chosen by an independent panel on the basis of the campaigns’ originality, relevance and effective use of resources.

Visit the winning site.

Valve achieved a total of 11 nominations in seven different categories in Grand One 2008 (see the detailed list below).

Drunk, you’re a fool (Kännissä olet ääliö) scooped the highest amount of nominations - it was noticed in three different categories.

Head of the competition jury, Mr. Janne Waltonen was quoted in Markkinointi & Mainonta (Feb. 29):

The competition was surprisingly tough, and it was pretty hard to even get on the short list.

The awards gala will be held on March 13th in Helsinki, at the restaurant Apollo.

Here’s a list of Valve’s finalists

• Best B2C-service
  • Widsets 1.0
• Best B2B-service
  • Kauppalehti.fi renewal
• Best design
  • Kännissä olet ääliö (with Bob Helsinki)
  • UPM Forest Life
  • MillionClouds
• Best infodesign
  • WidSets 1.0
• Best B2C-campaign
  • Kännissä olet ääliö (with Bob Helsinki)
  • UPM Forest Life
• Best online advertisement
  • Tunnista kaupunki, Finnair (with SEK)
• Most effective online campaign:
  • Kännissä olet ääliö (with Bob Helsinki)
• Best viral campaign
  • Uratie – Feikkititteli

See all finalists on the GrandOne site.