CROXSON Design Honored Locally as the Brand of Choice for Business-to-Business Marketing; Firm Awarded by the Houston Chapters of Three Top Communication Organizations

Business Wire, July 16, 2001

Business Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2001

As far as awards banquets go, this was a clean sweep. Once honored by having its Southwest Airlines annual report placed in the Smithsonian Institution's permanent annual report collection, CROXSON Design again has been recognized for outstanding corporate identity and annual report concepts, design and production by winning top honors in award competitions sponsored by the Houston chapters of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Association for Women in Communications (AWC).

In addition to local chapter awards, CROXSON announced that its corporate identity design for NetworkOil was featured in "The Big Book of Corporate Identity Design," a best-selling graphics journal published by David E. Carter. The book is a global overview of outstanding corporate identity programs in use today.

"Our primary mission is to use creative design to enhance the perceptions of our clients' brands," said Stephen Croxson, president of CROXSON Design. "This is absolutely essential in annual report design when communicating to shareholders and the Wall Street community, a critical audience for any public company."

In addition to sweeping top honors in annual report design in the three awards contests, CROXSON also brought home first place honors in the categories of corporate identity, print advertising and print announcements. The firm also was awarded for collateral brochure design.

"Although insightful design generally drives our end product, we are proud our clients place equal value on the strategic counsel we provide in the entire marketing communications process," said Croxson. "We believe our mission as a strategic design firm is accomplished only when that end product enhances the value of our clients' brands."

The following summarizes the complete list of ten local chapter awards won by CROXSON Design:

Annual Reports

-- IABC Award of Excellence (first place) - VTEL Corporation 2000 Annual Report


-- PRSA Gold Excalibur Award (first place) - Cabot Oil & Gas 1999 Annual Report


-- PRSA Silver Excalibur Award (second place) - VTEL Corporation 2000 Annual
Report

-- AWC First Place Matrix Award - Cabot Oil & Gas 1999 Annual Report

-- AWC Second Place Matrix Award - VTEL Corporation 2000 Annual Report

Corporate Identity

-- IABC Award of Excellence - Bacterial BarCodes Corporate

Identity Program

-- AWC First Place Matrix Award - NetworkOil Corporate Identity

Program

Design

-- AWC First Place Matrix Award - Cushman & Wakefield Moving

Announcement

-- AWC First Place Matrix Award - NetworkOil e-Commerce Color

Print Advertisement

-- PRSA Bronze Excalibur Award - Weatherford International

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About CROXSON Design

Founded in 1978, CROXSON Design is dedicated to the development and revitalization of client brands. Through its passion for intelligent and strategic communication, CROXSON provides corporate identity programs, annual report and collateral design, print advertising, media planning, direct marketing and Web site development for clients ranging in size from the Fortune 500 to biotechnology start-ups. Based in Houston, CROXSON specializes in energy, serving such clients as BCM Technologies, Cabot Oil & Gas, ExxonMobil Chemical, Houston Technology Center, Mariner Energy, NetworkOil, Superior Energy Services and Weatherford International. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.croxsondesign.com.