Visix Takes Home Bronze Content Award at Digital Signage Expo

Visix is honored to receive a Bronze DSE Content Award for their Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC) digital signage design

2014-02-18

ATLANTA, GA, February 18, 2014 (Press-News.org) Visix is honored to receive a Bronze DSE Content Award for their Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC) digital signage design. Robert Brown, Creative Content Artist for Visix, won the award for his custom interactive wayfinding and traditional digital signage for the school.

"Each year at DSE, they award the best in ground-breaking creative projects, and I'm honored to have been recognized," says Brown. "We always aim to bring a unique design approach to each project that not only meets the customer's technical and branding requirements, but will engage the audience to produce true return on investment for the client. Working with WITCC, we had a terrific opportunity to incorporate our expertise in both traditional visual communications and wayfinding techniques."

WITCC wanted both traditional digital signage and interactive wayfinding in a single design for 13 displays and one video wall placed throughout their five core buildings near main entrances. The objective was to provide daily announcements with an option for interactive wayfinding to save time and effort for students and visitors, as well as alleviating the burden on their information desk. Visix created a branded layout with a hot spot that switches to a custom interactive wayfinding map, as well as coordinated content layouts and message backgrounds for the traditional content.

The annual Digital Signage Expo Content Awards honor innovative and compelling content created for digital signage and digital out-of-home networks. All nominated content will be judged on the following criteria: creative relevance, production quality and intended mission.

Digital Signage Expo announced the winners of its Apex and Content Awards for 2014 at is 5th Annual Awards Dinner at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Wednesday, February 12. Nearly 100 entries across 11 categories made up the field of Content Award nominees.

For a list of Visix awards, visit http://www.visix.com/digital-signage-awards.html. For samples of their work, visit http://www.visix.com/interactive-wayfinding-design-gallery.html.

About Visix
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, interactive wayfinding, 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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