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!

Quick update…we’re working with Oxfam America on the new information architecture for their website. The site is slated for launch on 2008, but will go through a comprehensive planning and information architecture strategy phase. We’ll be working on crafting personas, wireframing, and mapping out new solutions for the site…more details as they emerge…

We’ve got a couple of exciting careers ops. We’re looking to continue to build out our design team with both information architects and designers of all levels. You can take a look the job descriptions on the careers section of the site.

Information Architects
The information architect guides cross-functional teams through user-centered design (UCD) activities, blending business and user goals to create the ideal online experience for our clients’ products. Working with a project manager, art director, and technical lead, the IA participates throughout the project process and is responsible for the final information architecture strategy and deliverables. More…

Art Director
At RDVO, the Art Director has the ability to greatly influence the direction of a wide variety of interactive project types including: web applications, interfaces for consumer and medical products, complex websites, traditional software, and mobile applications. More…

So where do I start? The last month has been crazy. We accepted our first Webby Award, won a bunch of new gigs, brought on a few new people, and continue to churn out great work.

We accept this award for the people of Boston…
We had a great time at the Webbys accepting the award for mbta.com. Mike D conceived and delivered the best five-word acceptance speech ever given for a Transit website: “Fewer Boston Drivers…your welcome!”

Can you find RDVO on the red carpet?

Mike accepts the award for mbta.com. The five-word speech: “Fewer Boston drivers…you’re welcome”

The after-party was even more fun than the show. DJ Jazzy Jeff dee-jayed the night away where Ben was the subject of one more five-word speech: “Most tragic dance moves…ever.”

New Projects
We’re pleased to announce several great new projects. We’re now working on the user experience for the new trip planner for 511.org, a roll-up of San Francisco transit organizations. We’re also working on the redesign for Carbonite, a online backup provider, and are working with online community provider Communispace on planning out their new online marketing platform.

We also have a couple of new engagements working on product UI that we’ll be announcing soon.

More coming soon…

Did you ever wonder how you’d fare against NASCAR drivers? A few celebrities wondering the same thing and a new reality show was born! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Fast Cars & Superstars website, an exciting add-on to the Gillette Young Guns website. The show features William Shatner, John Elway, Jewel, and other celebs learning what it takes to win on the track. The Gillette Young Guns are six of the top drivers on the stock car circuit.

RDVO developed the site design and built out all the Flash work. The first episode of the show airs on ABC on June 7^.

Can you believe it? We learned earlier this week that a site that RDVO planned, designed, and delivered — MBTA.com — won the 2007 Webby Award in the Government category.

We were definitely surprised to beat out some great sites including the Library of Congress and Factcheck.com.

According to the Webby team, there were over 8,000 works entered from all 50 US states and over 60 countries worldwide, which makes the 2007 awards the biggest in their history. The Webbies are considered by many to be the “Oscars of the Internet” and we’re extremely pleased, excited, and humbled to be among the winners.

Most importantly, we want to acknowledge our amazing client counterparts at the MBTA who–from day one–brought a special blend of competency, hard work, vision, and fairness to the table.
See you at the award show in June!

Our sad blank walls have now come alive with help from Axiom Gallery’s corporate art program. Axiom, recently named “Best in Boston” by the Weekly Dig, is Boston’s only gallery dedicated exclusively to showcasing emerging and established artists working in new media.

We are currently displaying works from Mark Stock, a programmer, researcher, and artist who explores the boundary between the real and the unreal as it pertains to fluid dynamics, computer simulation, and visual perception. His work depicts scenes from the hidden world of fluid turbulence, and is created with custom software from his research.

Boil, by Mark Stock (read artist’s statement)