One of the main topics of research in MDC has been the direct design of Multiple Description Quantizers. Current design techniques exist only for scalar quantizer design under some constraints. Even these design techniques suffer from the problem of poor local minima. Our work is focused on the design of unstructured Multiple Description Vector Quantizers (MDVQs) for diversity systems employing two effective channels. Currently we are investigating the use of the Deterministic Annealing (DA) approach for this problem. Our approach avoids many poor local minima, and out-performs existing techniques for the special case of scalar quantizer design. Further, this approach can also be used for the design of vector quantizers without any modifications.