Visix Creative Services Wins Four Communicator Awards and Expands Team to Meet Increasing Demand

    ATLANTA, GA, May 16, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Visix, Inc. is honored to receive four 2012 Communicator Awards for their interactive wayfinding and video designs, three of which were in the Education category. The winners were announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts on April 30, 2012.

Dwayne Johnson, Designer for Visix Creative Services received an Award of Excellence for his Dartmouth College interactive wayfinding design, and Awards of Distinction for Colorado State University Pueblo and Gateway Technical College interactive designs. He also received an Award of Distinction for the company's AxisTV Digital Signage Software Training Introduction Video. The Visix team has a total of 16 awards in communications and design, including six Emmys and five Telly Awards.

"The pool of entries we received for this year's Communicator Awards serves as a true testament to the innovative ideas and capabilities of communications and marketing professionals around the world. Each year our entrants continue to amaze by reinventing the ways we communicate and market in an ever-changing industry" noted Linda Day, executive director of the IAVA. She added, "On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year's Communicator Award Entrants and Winners for their passion and dedication. We are humbled to be given the opportunity to recognize such amazing work."

Visix's Creative Services has seen a 150% increase in projects received in the most recent quarter, compared to the same period last year. In response, the company has hired Jill Biazzo as Creative Services Project Manager, and plans to rapidly expand its design team in the coming months.

Biazzo oversees all creative service projects for Visix including quoting, client consultation and overall project management. She works with a team of designers and contractors to develop and expand Visix's creative product offering, and also spearheads Visix social media efforts. She has over ten years of experience in marketing and a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

"Creative is the fastest growing part of our business and we have a lot of great new creative products coming out this year," says Biazzo. "Our clients realize that software alone won't make their communications effective - employing our design talent and expertise ensures that their system looks great the day it launches. I'm excited to be joining Visix as they evolve to provide comprehensive visual communications services."

In addition to taking on more full-time designers, Visix is launching a summer internship program for students of multimedia design at the Atlanta branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Art Institute of Atlanta. Students interested in applying should contact [email protected].

Examples of Visix designs can be viewed at http://www.visix.com/digital-signage-content-gallery.html/.

Clients interested in purchasing Creative Services should contact [email protected].

About The Communicator Awards
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. This year's Communicator Awards received thousands of entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Please visit www.communicatorawards.com for more information.

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit www.iavisarts.org for a full member list and more information.

Visix, Inc. designs, develops and supports a suite of browser-based digital signage products that allows users to create, manage and schedule organizational communications from anywhere and to deliver messages and media to virtually any endpoint. The company offers digital signage software, meeting room signs, and applications for targeted messaging to desktops and portable devices.

Learn more about Visix digital signage products and services at www.visix.com.

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