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OnRamp Wins Communicators Awards for Creative Excellence
AUSTIN, TX – OnRamp Access, Austin’s original Internet operations company, received two awards of excellence and two awards of merit in the 14th Annual Communicator Awards. OnRamp’s corporate identity package and brochure received awards of excellence in the competition. With over 9,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals.
OnRamp’s corporate re-branding campaign was created in-house by the company’s Director of Marketing Debra Danziger. Danziger, who has a background in developing award-winning branding campaigns for Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, implemented a unified identity system for the long-time Internet operations company, including logo, stationery and communications collateral.
The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 200+ 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, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others. See www.iavisarts.org for more information.
About OnRamp
Founded in Austin, Texas, OnRamp Access has been providing all of the services necessary to build, deploy and manage Internet operations since its inception in 1994. As one of Austin’s original Internet operations companies, OnRamp began connecting businesses to the Internet by providing Internet dial-up, ISDN and T-1 service. Within a year, OnRamp’s state-of-the-art Data Center housed servers for Colocation and Managed Server customers. As the need for Internet connection, server storage and management increased, so did the demand for websites. The expansion of OnRamp's customized Internet services led to the formation of one of Austin’s original and largest web development departments and the creation of more than 700 websites and applications, including sites for the State of Texas, Earl Campbell, the Girl Scouts Lone-Star Council and James Avery Craftsman.
Today, OnRamp is still the only Data Center in Austin and Central Texas to provide a single source for all of the services and resources to fully integrate a company’s Internet operations. Consistently ranked among the top service providers in the Austin Business Journal’s “Book of Lists,” OnRamp is one of Austin’s original Internet companies continuing to achieve growth and success amidst the high tech ebb and flow.
About the Communicator Awards
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communications 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. The past year’s 14th Annual Communicator Awards received over 8,500 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.
