Kwikpoint Usability & Design Awards

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Two Kwikpoint Products Take Gold at Hermes Creative Awards

April 26, 2010 - Kwikpoint is proud to announce that the Hermes Creative Awards judges have picked the Interceptor Body Army IOTV Generation 2 User Guide and the Disaster Assistance Visual Language Translator to receive Gold Hermes Awards at the 2010 competition. There were over 3,600 entries from throughout the United States and several other countries in the Hermes Creative Awards 2010 competition. Entries came from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.

About the Entries
The Kwikpoint Disaster Assistance Visual Language Translator™is designed specifically to help disaster aid workers across all volunteer and professional services, and provides an essential tool to help bridge language barriers, quickly assess need and render appropriate assistance both in the field and in post-event shelter situations. It offers aid workers and victims the ability to communicate food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, health and child care needs, and much more by pointing to carefully developed pictures and graphics. The product design and layout is a culmination of months of research and consultation with top professionals, and essentializes the most-needed content for disaster first-responders in an easy-to-use format.

The Interceptor Body Army IOTV Generation 2 User Guide was created for the US Marine Corps. The easy-to-follow Kwikpoint User Guide replaced a thick, confusing, text-based manual with easy to follow, step-by-step illustrations that ensure that every Marine can quickly assemble, care for and properly fit their IOTV Body Armor--one of their most critical components of protection from harm.

About the Award

Hermes Creative Awards is an international awards competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging media. Hermes Creative Awards recognizes outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals. The Awards are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (www.amcpros.com). The international organizationconsists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production and free-lance professionals.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Kwikpoint Takes Silver at The 2009 Davey Awards

October 30, 2009 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is excited to announce that its Maritime Visual Language Translator™ has won a Silver Award at the 2009 Davey Awards competition. With over 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from the best small firms, agencies and companies worldwide.

The Davey Awards honors the “Davids” of creativity, the smaller agencies, companies, or organizations with annual billings or revenues below certain levels. Each year, The Davey Awards honors winners who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets.

The Davey Awards is judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only organization consisting of top-tier media, advertising, and marketing professionals from the world’s leading organizations and firms.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint Maritime Visual Language Translator™ was developed in consultation with military and civilian experts in maritime interdiction, vessel search and rescue operations. It contains essential visual language content for personnel to communicate quickly by pointing to pictures in the unique and often tense situations inherent to high-seas operations. Content includes graphics to help communicate about current crew status and recent events, identify cargo types, crew and passenger nationalities, locate shipboard compartments, and identify systems and controls, as well as "smart card" graphics to assist with general search, closed compartment safety procedures. Also has panels to deal with weapons, vessel types, safety and tool equipment, and suspect identification and much more. Includes important words and phrases in eight different languages with phonetic spellings to achieve spoken communication to assist with information gathering.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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2009 MarCom Awards Select Kwikpoint as Gold Winner

October 26, 2009 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is honored to announce that its Maritime Visual Language Translator™ has been selected for a Gold Award from among almost 5,000 entries from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in the 2009 competition. Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication fields.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint Maritime Visual Language Translator™ was developed in consultation with military and civilian experts in maritime interdiction, vessel search and rescue operations. It contains essential visual language content for personnel to communicate quickly by pointing to pictures in the unique and often tense situations inherent to high-seas operations. Content includes graphics to help communicate about current crew status and recent events, identify cargo types, crew and passenger nationalities, locate shipboard compartments, and identify systems and controls, as well as "smart card" graphics to assist with general search, closed compartment safety procedures. Also has panels to deal with weapons, vessel types, safety and tool equipment, and suspect identification and much more. Includes important words and phrases in eight different languages with phonetic spellings to achieve spoken communication to assist with information gathering.

About the Award
MarCom Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. MarCom entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. The competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies. The competition is so well respected in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants. MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand creative professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Kwikpoint Wins Again! Collects The Communicator Awards "2009 Award of Distinction"

May 29, 2009 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is proud to announce that its Disaster Assistance Visual Language Translator™, has been selected for a Communicator Awards 2009 Award of Distinction by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) from among thousands of entries from across the US and around the world.

The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 450+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current IAVA membership represents a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Condè Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Keller Crescent, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Tribal DDB, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint Disaster Assistance Visual Language Translator™is designed specifically to help disaster aid workers across all volunteer and professional services, and provides an essential tool to help bridge language barriers, quickly assess need and render appropriate assistance both in the field and in post-event shelter situations. It offers aid workers and victims the ability to communicate food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, health and child care needs, and much more by pointing to carefully developed pictures and graphics. The product design and layout is a culmination of months of research and consultation with top professionals, and essentializes the most-needed content for disaster first-responders in an easy-to-use format.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Yupo Corporation America's 2008 Wally Award Goes to Kwikpoint

October 28, 2008 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is pleased to announce that its Modular Tactical Vest (MTV) Visual User Guide has been chosen for top honors in the 2008 Wally Awards by Yupo Corporation America, maker of high-quality YUPO synthetic printing paper. Each year, Yupo Corporation America invites several distinguished designers from around the country to judge its Wally Award competition entries. The winners are chosen based on uniqueness of design and creative utilization of YUPO synthetic paper which takes advantage of its tear-proof and waterproof characteristics. The MTV User Guide utilizes the super-strength of YUPO with the installation of two-piece grommet that allows the piece to be securely tethered to its companion product without risk of being torn away and lost.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint MTV Visual User Guide is a visual assembly and use guide which offers a short learning curve and fast deployment for the US Marines state-of-the-art body armor system. Detailed illustrations quickly instruct users in assembly, outfitting, removal and optional usage scenarios with minimal need for written instruction. Unlike typical text-based instruction guides, Kwikpoint Visual User Guides rely almost exclusively on large, carefully developed, accurate illustrations that provide step-by-step guidance in a way that text-heavy instructions can't.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Kwikpoint Receives 2008 National Health Information Awards Silver Certificate

September 15, 2008 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is honored to to have been selected as a Silver Certificate Award winner for its English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ by The Health Information Resource Center (HIRC). Now in its 16th year, the National Health Information Awards program honors high-quality consumer health information across a broad range of categories. The Health Information Resource Center (HIRC) is a national clearinghouse for consumer health programs and materials, and this Awards program is the most comprehensive of its kind, annually recognizing the Nation's best consumer health information.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ opens up a whole new way for EMS Responders to instantly communicate with Spanish-only speakers in urgent medical situations. Clear pictures, icons and graphics, side-by-side with Spanish/English phrase panels, enable EMS and Medical personnel to ask questions and get answers immediately in scenarios where language barriers might otherwise make effective communication impossible. The product design and layout is a culmination of months of research and consultation with top professionals, and essentializes the most-needed content for diagnosis and treatment into an easy-to-use format.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual Recognizes Kwikpoint for Design

August 5, 2008 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is proud to announce that its Visual User Guide for the Skydex Ballistic Helmet Upgrade Kit has been recognized for design excellence in the Print Magazine Regional Design Annual. Each year, the Regional Design Annual recognizes creative excellence from thousands of entries all across the country.

About the Entry
The Skydex Ballistic Helmet Upgrade Kit Installation Guide by Kwikpoint relies almost exclusively on large, carefully developed, accurate illustrations that communicate step-by-step installation, usage and proper-fit adjustment in a way that text-heavy user guides can't. Kwikpoint User Guide illustrations match what the user is looking at and holding in their hands, eliminating the confusion that often surrounds written instruction and making installation quick and easy. "These guides open up communication between SKYDEX and our troops to ensure the correct placement of the helmet pads, increasing impact mitigation for our soldiers," said SKYDEX President and CEO Mike Buchen. "Kwikpoint has provided millions of visual language guides to U.S. military forces and coalition partners around the world and SKYDEX is pleased to be a partner for this cause."

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Kwikpoint Takes Home The Communicator Awards "2008 Award of Distinction"

May 23, 2008 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is proud to announce that its English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™, has been selected as The Communicator Awards 2008 Award of Distinction winner by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). IAVA is an invitation-only member-based organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Over 8,500 entries were submitted this year from ad agencies, interactive agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms and public relation firms. The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement.

About the Entry
The Kwikpoint English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ opens up a whole new way for EMS Responders to instantly communicate with Spanish-only speakers in urgent medical situations. Clear pictures, icons and graphics, side-by-side with Spanish/English phrase panels, enable EMS and Medical personnel to ask questions and get answers immediately in scenarios where language barriers might otherwise make effective communication impossible. The product design and layout is a culmination of months of research and consultation with top professionals, and essentializes the most-needed content for diagnosis and treatment into an easy-to-use format.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington (ADCMW) Awards Two Kwikpoint Products

April 30, 2008 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is pleased to announce that two of its products have been recognized at the ADCMW 59th Annual Show. Both the Afghanistan Visual Language Translator for IED Detection and the English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ received Award Certificates at the Annual Show held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, which highlights work from hundreds of local designers, art directors and firms each year.

About the Entries
The Afghanistan Visual Language Translator for IED Detection was developed specifically to assist Armed Forces personnel with the detection and deterrence of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), over 100,000 of these flagship Kwikpoint products are helping save lives every day in Afghanistan. The English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator is a visual communication tool that enables instant communication with Spanish-only speakers in situations where language barriers could seriously hinder effective treatment in urgent medical situations, and is a multiple award winner since its initial release in 2007.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 4 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.

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EMS Expo 2007 Selects New Kwikpoint Product As a "Top Pick"

November 10, 2007 (Alexandria, VA) - Kwikpoint is proud to announce that its new English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™, has been selected as one of 20 "Top Picks" for new and innovative products at the 2007 EMS Expo in Orlando, Florida. The competition of new products is held each year at the EMS Expo, and is administered and judged by EMS Magazine. Over 200 entries were submitted this year.

The Kwikpoint English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ opens up a whole new way for EMS Responders to instantly communicate with Spanish-only speakers in urgent medical situations. Clear pictures, icons and graphics, side-by-side with Spanish/English phrase panels, enable EMS and Medical personnel to ask questions and get answers immediately in scenarios where language barriers might otherwise make effective communication impossible. The product design and layout is a culmination of months of research and consultation with top professionals, and essentializes the most-needed content for diagnosis and treatment into an easy-to-use format.

Kwikpoint's English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator™ will be profiled in EMS Magazine's January 2008 coverage of this year's Top Picks, and in the March/April issue of EMS Product News.

About Kwikpoint
After completing a 15,000 mile bicycle trip through 26 countries in the mid-1980's, Kwikpoint founder Alan Stillman put his dream of helping people communicate with pictures into action. Twenty years later, Kwikpoint has expanded that dream into a wide variety of visual communication tools that help people communicate everything from basic needs to complex ideas quickly and easily, using carefully developed pictures and symbols. The company offers a line of standard Visual Language Translators (VLTs), and also works closely with customers to create precise custom VLTs and Visual User Guides (VUGs) to fit their specific needs. With over 2 million products fielded for travel, medical and U.S. Military applications, Kwikpoint is making strides every day in helping people the world over communicate more effectively.

For more information on purchasing custom Kwikpoint products that fit the needs of your organization, contact Alan Stillman at 703-370-5527, extension 115 or astillman@kwikpoint.com.