Graphic Design USA recently honored the CPS Energy corporate communications team with four awards in the 2008 American Graphic Design Awards competition.

The national competition included 10,000 entries from large corporations such as Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods, with fewer than 15 percent being recognized as winners.

“This competition is a measuring stick of how our work stacks up on a national level,” said Eduardo Flores, senior graphics designer.  “It shows CPS Energy’s corporate communications’ work is on par with work being done for major companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Tyson Foods and CitiFinancial, to name a few.”

Winning entries include the CPS Energy 2007-08 annual financial report by Flores, the “Plant a Tree” ad campaign by graphics designer Michael Freberg and an environmental ad campaign by Frank Jimenez, senior graphic artist.  Flores also won an award for a natural gas campaign.

All winners received a certificate of excellence, and their work became eligible for possible inclusion in the Awards Annual that will be seen during the course of the year by an estimated 100,000 readers at companies, ad agencies and graphic design firms across the country.  The winning entries also will be published in the November/December issue of Graphic Design USA, the news magazine for graphic designers and other visual communications professionals.

Graphic Design USA has sponsored the national competition for more than a decade to spotlight excellence in design.  It honors outstanding new work of all kinds across all media: print and collateral, advertising and sales promotion, packaging and point-of-purchase, Internet and interactive design, broadcast and motion graphics, corporate identity and logos.

CPS Energy is the nation’s largest municipally owned energy company providing both natural gas and electric service.  Acquired by the City of San Antonio in 1942, CPS Energy serves more than 690,000 electric customers and almost 320,000 natural gas customers in and around the seventh-largest city in the U. S.  CPS Energy bills rank the lowest of the nation’s 10 largest cities, and the company has earned the highest financial ratings of any electric system in the nation.  In addition, CPS Energy is top-ranked in wind-energy capacity among municipally owned utilities across the country.  For more CPS Energy information, visit www.cpsenergy.com.