We found out today that our work on the Gillette Young Guns website is an official 2008 Webby Award Honoree in the Celebrity/Fan category.

The Webby is one of the most prestigious interactive and website awards and we’re pleased to be honored for the second year in a row (we won last year for the MBTA.com website).

Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The awards are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization that includes David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Arianna Huffington, AKQA Global Creative Director Rei Inamoto, Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, Internet inventor Vinton Cerf, and RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser.

Congratulations and thanks are mostly due to our amazing clients at the Gillette who consistently challenge us and collaborate to create amazing web products!

RDVO will be hosting the monthly meet-up of Boston’s chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

The event will feature a workshop/class on Adobe Flex for Designers, presented by Jesse Beach, a Boston IxDA group leader.

The event starts around 7:00 PM on Thursday, March 27. There will be free food and plenty of opportunities for socializing.

Click here for directions to RDVO.

The new and improved Gillette Young Guns website is now live.

Building on the framework built in 2007, RDVO worked with the Gillette Team to integrate a number of new features including design updates, new multimedia features, interactive screen savers, and the introduction of new Young Guns: Clint Bowyer and Denny Hamlin.

The website’s technology and information design have also been optimized for 2008, which hopes to be an active and successful year for Gillette’s NASCAR promotions.

The Gillette Young Guns website won for Best Entertainment/Sports website at the 2007 MITX Awards.

RDVO partner and co-founder Ben Zipkin is featured on the newly-redesigned Communication Arts Website. Ben is featured as part of the site’s “Insights” area and he gives perspective on social bookmarking applications, Edward Tufte, 80s music, and rotisserie ovens. Check it out.

You can also check out Ben’s blog at www.benzipkin.com.

We’re growing out our user experience strategy and research team and our currently looking to hire a number of new positions include:

• Information Architects (all levels)
• User Research Specialists
• Interaction Designers

Check out our careers page for more information.

RDVO was recently invited to take place in Microsoft’s Phizzpop design challenge. The challenge is held in several cities including Boston, San Francisco, Austin, and New York. The invite-only event event includes a design contest where top agencies are asked to solve a complex design solution using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) — Microsoft’s new supercharged application platform.

Several RDVO team members will receive intensive WPF team training after which they’ll have only two days to define, design, and build a working application UI using WPF. The winning company in Boston gets a bunch of free gear and a free trip to South By Southwest.

We are pleased and proud to take advantage of opportunity. More information about the program can be found here.

RDVO was honored with three 2007 MITX Awards last night — the most by any agency at this year’s event:

• Gillette Young Guns - Best Entertainment/Sports Website
• MBTA.com - Best Government Website
• PHT Corporation - Best Technology Website

The MITX Awards is the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the country for interactive and web innovations and celebrates the best creative and technological accomplishments emerging from New England. Over one thousand creative and technology professionals attended last night’s event.

As always, we share these awards with our awesome clients whose vision, innovation, and spirit truly drives the creation of amazing products!

Communispace launched their new corporate site this week. RDVO provide information architecture, design, and development service in collaboration with the awesome Communispace marketing and technology teams. The site also features a custom-built content management system.

Check it out: www.communispace.com

We just found out that three of our projects have been named as finalists for the 2007 MITX Awards.

• MBTA.com - Goverment Category
• GilletteYoungGuns.com - Sports and Entertainment
• PHTcorporation.com - Technology

Awards are handed out in early Novembers. As always, we thank our clients for the opportunity to work on these great projects.

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There are several new job openings available at RDVO. Take a look at our careers sections for current openings with our design, technology, and strategy teams. Work for one of New England’s fastest-growing interactive agencies!