UniKeep Announces 2006 Design Contest Award Winners

Marysville, OH — UniKeep, LLC, manufacturer of the award winning View Case Binder™ and an extensive line of unique, document storage & handling products, is pleased to announce the “Grand Prize” and “Best of Category” winners for the 2006 UniKeep Design Contest. The contest offers a $1,500 cash prize to the Grand Prize winner and a $500 cash prize to each overall Best of Category winner chosen from among the monthly winners in 2006. HOW Magazine was the sponsor for the 2006 Design Contest and Eric Rickabaugh, owner and creative director of Rickabaugh Graphics, was the celebrity judge.

The 2006 winning entries were announced in the January Issue of UniKeep eNews.

“The quality of entries for the contest continues to amaze and delight us. UniKeep users keep coming up with very creative designs and new organizational ideas. The contest enables our UniKeep users to show us new and innovative uses for our View Case Binders™,” said Ross Youngs, CEO of UniKeep and inventor of the UniKeep View Case Binder.

Gregory McQuay, a freelance artist and basketball player from Gary, Indiana, is the Grand Prize winner for 2006 with his Best of Category winning entry, “Mona Lisa”, in Arts & Entertainment. This entry was created with the fine artist in mind. Judges thought this entry was a beautiful and clever image and very appropriate for the category.

“I wanted to make a binder cover that could relate to any age group and have room for further customization,” says Gregory about his winning design. “The main intent was to portray expression and emotion using images from famous paintings giving my design a colorful and unique visual language. I used a combination of 2D and 3D techniques and the design itself symbolizes the artistic relationship between traditional and classical art forms,” said Gregory. “I really like the idea of customizing a binder cover because UniKeep’s clever means of storage makes organizing and managing the large amount of my sketches, drawings and illustrations a lot easier. And, with my own work displayed in a binder, it motivates me to continue to come up with new and fresh ideas,” added Gregory.

Visit www.unikeep.com/awards/ to view all of the great entries and category winners from 2006.

The Best of Category winners for 2006 are:

Arts & Entertainment –Gregory McQuay for “Mona Lisa”.

Business –Rajeev AR for “Bodycare and Beauty Tips”. This entry offers a pleasing design and a unique, but very appropriate, business use for a binder.

Education – Alla Kalamazova for “Alphabet”. This colorful cover is a great reference for children learning the proper shape of each letter and the binder encourages children to develop skills in organization as well as in neatness.

Hobbies & Recreation – Matthew Waltz for “Bug Collection”. This design is very nicely done with good detail and it’s a great idea for a UniKeep binder.

Sports – Alla Kalamazova for “2006 FIFA World Cup”. This entry is a festive collectible for the soccer enthusiast. Three different colors are available. In addition to the full wrap cover, you can download the match schedule.

”The Fourth Annual UniKeep Design Contest” has been announced for 2007. New for the 2007 contest is a challenge to design for the newly launched UniKeep Mini View Case Binder™. Judges for the UniKeep Design Awards are Jane Guthrie, Editor of Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine, Natalie Rhinesmith, Editor of Creative TECHniques Magazine and Judi Kauffman, nationally-known designer, writer, and teacher. Sponsors for the 2007 contest are Scrapbooking & Beyond and Creative TECHniques magazines.

This year’s contest again offers a total of $10,000 of cash prizes as well as monthly product prizes, an annual Grand Prize winner and annual Best of Category winners. Monthly winning contestants will receive a check for $100 along with a print of the winning design in a UniKeep binder. Plus, the first 50 entries each month receive a FREE UniKeep binder.

About UniKeep
UniKeep™ brand binders and accessories offer more colors, more flexibility, and more options for customization and organized document storage than any other products for filing, presentation, publication, and storage of printed and digital documents for school, home, office/SOHO, business and hobbyists.

UniKeep uses innovative and patented technology to create a more functional binder. The unique snap-close feature keeps everything protected inside a stackable, archival-safe case. The UniKeep View Case Binder has received numerous accolades in many consumer and trade publications. All UniKeep products are environmentally friendly, made of 100% polypropylene and curbside recyclable.

The company is headquartered in Marysville, Ohio. For additional information, call toll free (800) 829-8117, write marketing@unikeep.com, or visit its web site at www.unikeep.com.

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UniKeep LLC
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