M. Agnew & Company is a boutique strategic design firm located in the Napa Valley, specializing in corporate identity, naming, print communications and package design, with a special emphasis on food and wine products.
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| One overriding belief directs all creative work at M. Agnew & Company: the best and most effective communication solutions spring from the unique benefits of the client company and its products. The job of the graphic designer is to clearly and efficiently communicate the company’s strengths to the desired target audience without graphic fads or artificial overlaid styles.
Marianne Agnew, the principal of the firm, was trained at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where she focused her studies on Corporate Identity and Packaging. From Art Center, she was recruited by Landor Associates in San Francisco. During her five years as a Project Director at Landor Associates, she directed numerous domestic and international corporate identity programs for clients including Bank of America, Peat Marwick, ARCO and Woolworths Australia. Her work included development of worldwide standards for identity use, as well as the writing and design of the manuals which document and preserve the identity systems.

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Since founding her own firm in the Napa Valley in 1990, Ms. Agnew has placed additional emphasis on print communications and packaging design for the wine industry. Ms. Agnew's family background in the California wine industry combines with her strong professional training to create a studio uniquely suited to the development of lifestyle and luxury brand identities. One of Ms. Agnew's unique strengths lies in the creation of graphic systems that elegantly extend the core brand values to any form of visual communications.
Using a team approach, working with other Landor and Art Center graduates, Ms. Agnew has completed identity and packaging projects for a variety of clients including:
Beringer
Cindy Pawlcyn Restaurants:
Mustards, Go Fish, Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen
Duckhorn Wine Company
Freemark Abbey
Goldeneye
Olivina Napa Valley
Paraduxx
Rutherford Hill
St. Helena Olive Oil Company
Waste Connections, Inc.
Bishop Ranch
Franciscan
Montgomery Securities
Pine Ridge
Southcorp Australia
Toyota
World Cooperage

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