(Green Bay, WI) _ Arketype, a Green Bay-based design communications firm, was recently honored by Graphic Design:usa magazine with eight 2003 American Graphic Design Awards for excellence in communications and graphic design.

Arketype's winning entries represented design work completed on behalf of clients from a wide variety of industries including: private label plastics, investment services, health and beauty products, restaurant, community theater and fine paper. All reflect Arketype's commitment to delivering break-through creative solutions to its clients' marketing challenges.

The 2003 American Graphic Design Award competition invited almost 11,000 US-based advertising agencies, graphic design firms, corporate in-house creative departments and publishers to submit entrees. Arketype's winning design work included an animated sales presentation, point of sale, logo, brand and corporate identity brochures, letterhead and stationery, poster, and packaging.

"We are honored that of the huge number of submissions, our work was among the entries deemed worthy of distinction," said Jim Rivett, who is one of Arketype's principals along with founder/president Paul Meinke.

"It means so much to receive national recognition and show that the level of strategy and creativity people thought could only be found in large metropolitan cities is thriving in Green Bay," Meinke added.

The American Graphic Design Awards competition, in its 26th year, is widely considered to be one of the design community's most esteemed. A panel of prominent graphic art and design professionals judged entries and chose winners based on whether they thought the entries qualified as "new, outstanding graphic design, advertising art and marketing communications."

Graphic Design:usa, published by Kaye Publishing Corporation for 40 years, is the monthly business-to-business magazine for professional graphic designers and related creative and production professionals. It reaches the design field's freshest, most targeted business-to-business circulation at design firms, corporations, ad agencies and publishers. The magazine covers the latest in news, trends, people, events, projects, products, services and ideas.

Arketype Inc. is in its eleventh year of solving the marketing challenges of consumer brand and business-to-business companies through brand development and design of print and interactive communications.

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