http://blogs.valve.fi News, ramblings and other not so important stuff Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:59:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After an extensive pitch process between leading agencies Valve beat stiff competition to become Valio’s lead digital agency. Valve’s role includes strategic planning, concepting, creative design, execution, monitoring and development for digital channels. Valve’s expertise in understanding online consumer behaviour and planning, creating and implementing award winning creative solutions played a ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2010/06/22/valve-selected-by-valio-for-lead-digital-role/ Valve is looking for a new CEO, after former CEO Timo Julkunen's decision to leave the company. The search is ongoing, with good candidates already in the pipeline. Operative Director Miia Wren will be responsible for day-to-day business. More information will be given as the process progresses. Meanwhile, Valve continues to ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2010/06/16/news-from-the-next-generation-digital-agency/ We’ve had a reshuffle and made some extra office space available. Valve is a very creative environment, including designers and developers working in diverse digital fields. We have a great feel to our working environment, including the private “Valve Café” on the ground floor, and an excellent location in the ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2010/01/14/office-space-available/ During December we are going to use some of our manpower and knowledge to raise awareness of the causes, issues and organisations that are important to us. You can see the action unfold on our Christmas Calendar. Different people from Valve will be contributing everyday. We are encouraging our friends, colleagues ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/12/02/valve-christmas-stories/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/09/09/artekfi-wins-coveted-red-dot-award/ To guide the next phase of development of Finland's most awarded digital agency, Valve has announced the appointment of Timo Julkunen as CEO. In a fiercely competitive marketplace Valve is proud to have secured the appointment of a talented leader with a strong history of creating value for global brands. Timo ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/09/04/valve-announces-new-ceo/ Last week's "Media Playground 2009" at Cuba Café (organized by IIR in cooperation with Valve) provided a plate full of food for thought on changed consumer behavior and marketing in today's media environment. The participants took part in ten presentations and a panel discussion by experts from the field. Following the ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/06/18/media-playground-2009/ Since this spring, Valve has been offering Drupal as its primary web application platform. Valve's commitment to Drupal shows not only commitment to clients' needs but to overall quality and productivity. As web development is shifting towards long-lasting yet rapidly evolving solutions, Valve sees Drupal as the flagship of the ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/05/04/valve-embraces-drupal/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/04/23/drunk-youre-a-fool-is-vuoden-terveystako-2008/ Check out the new Artek site Valve designed and implemented. If possible, use the newest Safari 4 version to see the cool CSS animation on the landing page! :) http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/04/23/artekfi-live/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/03/20/valve-received-honorary-mentions-for-all-the-finalist-works-in-grand-one/ For Ardites' latest customer magazine on user experience technologies, Valve has been asked to contribute an article on the use of vector graphics for mobile user interfaces. With our long experience in mobile UI design, Valve is very excited about the new possibilities vector UIs bring to the mobile user ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/03/17/taking-the-mobile-interface-experience-to-a-new-dimension/ Valve and Tripsay compete in the Grand One final in three different categories with Tripsay travelling service. Helppo Henkilöstöpaketti -campaign is also amongst the finalists - a B2B-campaign designed and executed for Tapiola in co-operation with PHS. The winners are announced on 19th of March in the Grand One Gala in ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/03/06/valve-to-the-grand-one-with-four-finalists/ Finland Travel Bureau (Suomen Matkatoimisto) is set to launch a revolutionary new mobile travel service. The cost-free service, the first of its kind in Finland, will literally put travel services into the hands of travelers, wherever in the world they might be. Users will be able to view itineraries and ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2009/01/23/where-in-the-world/ Open Valve's Christmas wish! http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/12/18/valve-wishes-marry-christmas/ Valve spent last Friday afternoon designing something totally different from pixels - we had a mission to pimp our office. Materials such as plastic, paper, ducktape etc. were given to the teams to create prototypes of themed spaces that separate a meeting area of the open space. The six teams ended up creating and ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/11/11/valve-office-exploration/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/10/28/cresta-award-to-valves-fressis/ Valve team has once again grown. During the last few weeks Santeri Mäkinen and Lari Niura from Flash Fabriek joined us. This week Kim Olenius from Ego arrived and next week Susanna Laanikari who used to work in Tietotalo and Giuliano Cremaschi from Sulake will reinforce the ever growing Valve ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/10/27/new-posse-joining-valve/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/10/21/valve-won-two-effie-awards/ 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. http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/10/06/yet-another-victory-in-an-international-competition-for-valve/ Where do creativity and ideas reside? Right where the designers and other creatives do their work. At the Helsinki Design Week Open Studio evening, everybody is welcome to take a peek inside offices, studios, workshops and other creative spaces. Valve's office is open, and we warmly invite everyone to visit, meet our ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/09/30/valve-goes-helsinki-design-week-welcome/ Don't know what the hell Tweehouse is? Read all about it on the ArcticStartup blog. http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/09/26/tweehouse-on-arcticstartupcom/ Valve's and Bob Helsinki's Drunk, you're a fool was shortlisted at the Effie Awards 2008. The campaign competes in the final in two different categories - Service and Product category and Media Effect category. The final results will be announced at the Effie gala on the 14th of October ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/09/26/drunk-youre-a-fool-shortlisted-in-effie/ Valve's CTO, Tuomas Artman, has published an iPhone application to be sold in Apple's AppStore. Tuomas' Web Feeds application is a web feed reader through which the user can follow the news, blogs and other web publications on their iPhone. I've always found it odd that Apple didnt' include a decent ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/08/26/tuomas-artman-generated-an-application-to-iphone-%e2%80%93-first-in-finland/ P-J Hyytiäinen is joining Valve in the beginning of September as Creative Director of the Online Marketing team. P-J is joining Valve from Ego, where he has made a long career as Creative Director. He talks about his new position with enthusiasm: It's great to start at Valve which is not only ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/08/19/p-j-hyytiainen-joining-valve/ Valve was shortlisted in the 2008 Cresta Awards with Fressis (Integrated Campaigns), Drunk you're a fool (Integrated Campaigns) and UPM Forest Life (Online Interactive Media). A total of 285 finalists were chosen to the final which represents six percent of the total number of entries. View the finalists here. The 16th annual award ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/08/04/valve-to-2008-cresta-awards-final-with-three-entries/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/07/04/valve-celebrated-in-webby-awards/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/05/06/upm-forest-life-won-in-webby-awards/ Valve's UPM Forest Life was nominated in the Corporate Communicatons category for the 12th Annual Webby Awards. Now we need your help; as a nominee for a Webby Award, Valve is also eligible to win a People's Voice Award. People's Voice voting is open to the public from April 8 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/04/28/webby-awards-2008-vote-for-us/ 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 ... http://blogs.valve.fi/index.php/2008/04/25/bronze-for-valve-in-new-york-festivals/