Portland, OR – October 21, 2009 – Leading West Coast digital shop, the Overland Agency, has been recognized by the international W3 Awards with two silver awards, including one for a green building website. The Overland-created Cold Climate Housing Research Center Website (www.cchrc.org) won under the “green” category, while the Lightspeed Technologies Website (www.lightspeek-tek.com) won under the education category. This marks the third year in a row that Overland has collected awards from the W3 Awards. Other recent creative awards include platinum, silver, and gold awards from the Interactive Media Awards, WebAwards, and Communicator Awards for interactive work ranging from websites and Flash-based demos to a documentary film.

The Cold Climate Housing Research Center is a nonprofit corporation that facilitates the development, use, and testing of energy-efficient and cost effective building technologies for Alaska and the world’s cold climate regions. Projects featured on the website showcase such topics as building performance testing, cost effectiveness, alternative construction research, and energy efficiency. The site also serves as an excellent resource for potential members, builders, developers, and homeowners with a vast library of resources including educational articles, presentations, a newsletter and video.

Lightspeed Technologies, a leading provider of classroom audio solutions, has recently added an effective Overland Agency Flash piece to their homepage, which highlights Lightspeed’s most popular solutions by showing how students and teachers interact with the products in a classroom setting. The homepage also features informative product videos written and produced by Overland. Overland is also in the process of adding a series of international localized websites to further Lightspeed’s online business model.

About the Awards
The W3 Awards (www.w3award.com) honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. The W3 is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between. The awards are judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms.

About the Overland Agency   
The Overland Agency is an award-winning Portland, Oregon-based digital firm with deep capabilities in branding, user experience design (UXD), creative content generation, online and social media marketing and campaigning, web design and animation, mobile and web applications, web development and engineering. Clients include adidas, ARM, IHS Dolphin Software, the Design Automation Conference, Lightspeed Technologies, and Mutual of Omaha. The agency also does pro bono work for such groups as the Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. For more information, visit, www.overlandagency.com.