Artek.fi, created and implemented by Valve, has won the red dot award in the category of communication design 2009.

The red dot design award is the leading and largest design competition worldwide with 12.000 entries from 60 countries. The red dot seal of quality is valued around the world and stands for the best in the design business.

Artek.fi is a bold move for the brand’s internet presence. Artek’s high quality product catalogue is at the heart of the new design concept supported by a stunning selection of interior design showcases. The dynamic and contemporary feel of the site appears to have been achieved using Flash-based technologies. However, Valve’s developers implemented the site with pure CSS and HTML coding. This enabling use of technologies resulted in user experience benefits and excellent search engine optimization.

At the red dot gala on 9th December, Artek.fi will compete for the “best of the best” and “grand prix” prizes, with the elite from the communications design community.

The Finnish Centre for Health Promotion (FCHP) (Terveyden edistämisen keskus ry, Tekry) rewarded the Federation of the Brewing and Soft Drinks Industry (Panimo- ja virvoitusjuomateollisuusliitto) with Health Promotion Act of the Year award (Vuoden terveysteko) for the Drunk, you’re a fool (Kännissä olet ääliö) campaign. The campaign was planned and implemented in co-operation of Bob Helsinki and Valve.

Valve congratulates the Federation of the Brewing and Soft Drinks Industry!

Valve together with PHS received a honorary mention for Tapiolan Helppo henkilöstöpaketti in BtoB campaign category. In addition, Valve and Tripsay scooped three honorary mentions for Tripsay in this year’s Grand One. The honorary mentions were received in BtoC service, Start up and Infodesign categories. Grand One Gala was celebrated on 19th of March in restaurant Apollo, Helsinki.

Fressis Anti-Smoking Campaign won a Cresta International Advertising Award in the Integrated Campaign category. The campaign along with fressis.fi website was designed in co-operation with Hasan & Partners.

Coffin Shop has also been awarded in Eurobest and Epica as well as in Vuoden Huiput.

The winners represent less than 2 percent of total entries and were chosen by Cresta’s International Grand Jury. The Cresta Awards were launched in 1993 and the competition has grown to be one of the most valued ones in the field of advertising.

Valve received a gold and a bronze Effie for Drunk, you’re a fool. The gold was won in the Internet Focused Campaigns category and the bronze in the Non-profit category. Drunk, you’re a fool, the campaign planned and executed with Bob Helsinki, has won multiple awards so far. It has scraped up awards from SIME, New York Festivals, Moscow International Advertising Festival, Grand One and Vuoden Huiput.

Valve and Bob Helsinki were awarded in the Moscow International Advertising Festival for the Drunk, you’re a fool - website. The 1st price was achieved in the Internet communications category.

In addition, Valve and Hasan & Partners are shortlisted in the Golden Drum -competetion for Coffin Shop.

Karen Forsström, Toni Laturi and Jussi Niemi from Valve and Paula Morri from UPM celebrated in the Webby Awards gala in New York. The team received the Webby Award for UMP Forest Life in the Corporate Communications category. Known as the “Web Oscar”, the Webby Award is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. With nearly 10,000 entries from more than 60 countries worldwide, the 12th Annual Webby Awards was the biggest in its history.

The atmosphere in the Webby Awards gala was glamorous in the heart of Wallstreet, but at the same time very relaxed

describes Karen Forsström, Valve’s Project Manager and continues:

The best of the best celebrated together with the feeling of mutual respect for each other’s achievements. Most of the works presented were a testament to usability and functionality and others we´re just simply enjoyable. It´s exhilarating to see the salute of originality and be a part of it. As our AD Jussi Niemi noted: “We´ve got to come back here next year!” To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise – and worth bragging about ; )

Valve was the first ever Finnish company over 12 year history of Webby Awards to win a Webby Award. UPM Forest Life has been recognized and awarded also in other respected competitions such as Epica, Cannes Lions, LIA and Grand One.

The gala is famous for it’s 5-word acceptance speeches that stole the show also this year. See the speeches here.

Valve’s UPM Forest Life is the winner of the Webby Award in the Corporate Communications category for the 12th Annual Webby Awards.

To quote David-Michel Davies, the Executive Director of Webby Awards:

With nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 US states and over 60 countries worldwide, the 12th Annual Webby Awards is the biggest in our history and continues to be the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Your work truly represents the best of the Web.

The 12th Annual Webby Awards are celebrated on June 8th-10th in New York City.

Valve received bronze in the annual New York Festivals’ Innovative Advertising competition for Drunk, you’re a fool. The campaign was awarded in the Educational category and was the only Finnish campaign awarded in the competition. Online, tv, print and outdoor advertising were used to create traffic to the website during the campaign. The website was designed in co-operation with Bob Helsinki.

Valve received a silver award and an honorary quotation in this year’s Vuoden Huiput competition in the Digimedia category. The silver awarded “Drunk, you’re a fool” has been a success also in other competitions throughout the year, for instance in SIME and Grand One. “Drunk, you’re a fool” was designed and executed in co-operation with Bob Helsinki.

“Fressis” also received an honorary quotation for the campaign site and was described by the jury as follows:

Behind this absurd and humoristic campaign there is a serious issue. Around this issue, a diversified site has been built paying regard to the target audience’s usage of the Internet.

The site was designed in co-operation with Hasan & Partners and also “Fressis” has been noticed in various competitions, such as Eurobest and Epica.

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’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.

Coffin shop and Drunk you’re a fool (Kännissä olet ääliö) were chosen on the awarded list in Grafia’s Best of the Year 2007 competition (Vuoden Huiput). The awards are to be issued in Digital Media as well as Integrated Marketing categories. The awards gala will be held in April.

Five of Valve’s projects last year were chosen by the jury to appear in the Finnish advertising agencies “Vuoden Huiput 2007″ annual book, all in the category of Digital Media. The chosen projects were our brand new web site Valve, Coffin shop, Drunk, you’re a fool, UPM Forest Life and MillionClouds.

The Best of the Year 2007 book will be published during the spring 2008 by Grafia, the Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland.

The success of UPM Forest Life continues – the online service got awarded in the European Excellence Awards in the Issues & Reputation Management –category. Forest Life, designed and executed by Valve, was earlier awarded with Silver award Epica Awards. It was also shortlisted in LIA Awards and Cannes Cyber Lions, and selected as the Forest Act of the Year.

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