07 Nov Memorial Wins Three Major Awards for Use of Technology
The National D-Day Memorial’s use of technology to enhance the understanding of D-Day, for both in person and online visitors, earned the recognition of three international creative industry awards.
The Memorial’s mobile app is the winner of both a 2024 Communicator Award and a 2024 Davey Award, Silver – both for Best User Experience. The Memorial’s online Artifact Virtual Gallery is a 2024 Telly Award Bronze Winner for Use of Volumetric Capture — Immersive, Interactive, & Mixed. Reston, VA based Frameless Technologies, LLC created both the app and the artifact gallery for the Memorial and submitted for the awards.
“We are constantly exploring how to share the importance of D-Day and the stories of those who served and sacrificed,” said April Cheek-Messier, National D-Day Memorial Foundation president & CEO. “To have our digital content recognized internationally is a wonderful honor and a testament to the hard work of our staff, our organization, and our partnership with Frameless Technologies, to ensure the lessons and legacies of WWII are not forgotten.”
“We are so thrilled to be part of this great project! The National D-Day Memorial is such a special place, we were honored to create these tools to help enhance the visitor experience,” said Michaela Gaaserud, CEO, Frameless Technologies.
The Communicator Awards recognizes excellence, effectiveness, and innovation across all areas of communication as the leading international awards program honoring talent in this highly competitive field. The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends craft—work that made a lasting impact. The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and reviewed by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, an invitation-only group consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. AIVA members include executives from organizations like Amazon, Big Spaceship, Chelsea Pictures, Conde Nast, Critical Mass, Disney, ESPN, GE Digital, IBM, The Nation of Artists, Nextdoor, Spotify, Time, Inc., the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, and Wired.
With the name derived from the story of David defeating Goliath, the annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets. The Davey Awards may be for smaller companies, but the judges have big reputations. The Davey is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. AIVA members include executives from organizations such as Condé Nast, Disney, GE, Keller Crescent, Microsoft, Monster.com, MTV, Push., Publicis, Sesame Workshops, The Marketing Store, Worktank and Yahoo! and many more.
The Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens. Founded in 1979 to honor local, regional and cable television commercials, with non-broadcast video and television programming added soon after, the award has evolved with the rise of digital video to include branded content, documentary, social media, immersive and more. The Telly Awards today celebrates the best work in the video medium in an exciting new era of the moving image on and offline. The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Receiving over 12,000 entries globally from 6 continents and all 50 states, The Telly Awards recognizes work that has been created on behalf of a client, for a specific brand and/or company or self-directed as a creative endeavor.
The Communicator Award and Telly statuettes are on display in the Fleda A. Ring Education Quonset Hut at the Memorial. The Davey Award statuette is in production.