MUHC Foundation website garners award for Design Postimage
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation's website has won a Bronze award in the Public Service category from the Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition. This annual competition recognizes excellence in interactive media production among firms, individuals and in-house multimedia departments. The seventh annual competition received over 1000 entries from 20 countries around the world, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand Turkey, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
In December 2007, the McGill University Health Centre Foundation launched its new website, created by Design Postimage for Knockout Communications. The site is powered by Drupal, a leading open source content management system, and includes a wide assortment of features—events calendar, forums, live chat, photo and video galleries, downloadable audio clips, online donations, etc.—that encourage increased user interaction and participation, and allow for communication to be targeted at specific groups: donors, volunteers, staff and the general public. Drupal implementation and programming was done in collaboration with Koumbit, a local non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote the appropriation of open source software by social groups in Quebec, in Canada and abroad.
"Building trusted and on-going relationships is one of the most important elements of philanthropy. Timely and relevant communication between the Foundation, its donors and the community at large is a key to success. Our goal at the McGill University Health Centre Foundation was to create a website that would add value to information already available, and allow for timely, ongoing and credible dialogue to take place amongst patients, donors, doctors, nurses, researchers, and other members of our community. I believe we achieved this with the launch of our new website last December, and I am very pleased that the site has been recognized by the Horizon Interactive Awards for its content, design and architecture, and especially for its ability to enhance the MUHC Foundation's commitment to engage the community in the very important activities that take place every day at the McGill University Health Centre."
—Don Taddeo, President and CEO, McGill University Health Centre Foundation
In 2007, Design Postimage won a Gold Horizon Interactive Award in the Self Promotion/Company Identity category for its own Flash-based website, www.postimage.com.
In 2005, Design Postimage won a Silver Horizon Interactive Award in the Flash category for Film In Quebec, a searchable photo gallery of Quebec's film locations primarily aimed at movie producers in the United States and Europe who are considering Quebec as a possible shooting location.
In 2004, Design Postimage received a Silver Horizon Interactive Award in the Education/Training category for "A Day in the Life of an Engineer", a site presenting web portraits of five Aboriginal engineers from across Canada.
Design Postimage, founded in 1999, is a Montreal-based studio that unifies web, multimedia, print and motion design to create campaigns that traverse and transcend all boundaries.
