American Graphic Design Award Goes to MVP for 3M Grainger Catalog 

Minneapolis, September 22, 2006 – MVP Marketing + Design, a Minneapolis based brand identity and marketing communications design firm, returns from the 2006 American Graphic Design Award Competition with highest honors for the third consecutive year running.  Presented by Graphic Design USA, the news magazine for creative professionals, the competition recognized the Minneapolis firm's excellence in marketing communications and graphic design for its creation of the new 3M Products Catalog for Fortune 500 Grainger, the leading broad-line supplier of facilities maintenance products serving business and institutions in North America. The MVP entry will be reproduced in Graphic Design USA’s Award Annual issue, which will be viewed by well over 10,000 national advertising agencies, publishing companies, corporate clients and graphic designers.

MVP’s award-winning design of the New 3M Products Catalog for Grainger incorporates dynamic graphics symbolic of movement and evolution to highlight 3M’s emphasis on innovation and novel technology.  Said Dick Weinrib, CEO of MVP Marketing + Design, “For every client, our mission is to turn the ordinary into extraordinary.  Kudos to our talented design team and the 3M Industrial Products Division for their collaboration on creating yet another phenomenal, award winning piece.”

About MVP Marketing + Design, Inc.

 MVP Marketing + Design, founded in 1985, is an integrated marketing communications and digital branding agency. The firm is  dedicated to building invaluable brands through valued relationships.  MVP’s vertical marketing expertise includes Medical Device, High Tech, Private Equity, Office Supply and the Non-Profit sector. Dedicated to serving organizations seeking innovative and creative marketing and communications, MVP builds, revitalizes and promotes brands through such integrated services as Marketing Consulting, Advertising/Design, and Web/SEO solutions.  Clients served include 3M, Medtronic, Minnetronix, TSI, Nortech Systems, Worthington Aviation, Stone Arch Capital, Yukon Partners, Huron Capital, GMB Mezzanine, the Minnesota Minority Supplier Diversity Council, and the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation (Minneapolis), among others.