The Kwikpoint Story
Alan Stillman, the founder and CEO of Kwikpoint, developed the Kwikpoint concept on a 15,000 mile around-the-world bicycle trip. While in Hungary,he cut out magazine pictures to communicate his dinner selections. From that simple concept grew a communication device that spans continents and dialects with ease. Alan and a team of six designers consulted linguists and members of the diplomatic community to create universally understood icons. The simple device replaces pounds-or kilos-of language dictionaries and phrase books.
Kwikpoint today ... 20 years after Alan's bike trip, Kwikpoint creates a wide variety of colorful visual communication tools that can be used by anyone, anywhere, in the world. Using a Kwikpoint product allows people who don't share a common language to communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, simply by pointing to pictures and symbols.
Kwikpoint Visual Language Translators:
- Provide a visual vocabulary of up to more than 1,000 universally recognizable symbols.
- Available in a variety of formats including passport size, wallet size
and full size. - Help you order a meal, shop, find transportation, get medical attention
and more. - Perfect for travelers, military personnel, police, emergency management teams, and retailers.
- Work anywhere in the world!
Customized Kwikpoints
Kwikpoint products are also widely used as customized promotional tools in the travel and hospitality industries. By branding and customizing Kwikpoint products to specific audiences, our corporate clients have reached out to their customers at major worldwide events with value-added giveaways that are retained for years to come. Vacation travelers, business executives, road warriors, hotel staff, meeting & conference attendees and more have all used Kwikpoint products to ease their daily communications abroad.
Military Kwikpoints
Kwikpoint is also growing as an indispensable and highly effective communication tool for the United States Armed Services. Our Visual Language Translators are helping save the lives of both soldiers and civilians in conflict zones by assisting with identifying Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), locating weapons caches, and identifying enemy positions. They are also easing the delivery of humanitarian aid, helping to reduce tensions, and building rapport with local populations. Currently over 2.5 million of our communication guides have been supplied to the National Guard, Army and Marine Corps in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere around the world.