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Off-Site Services
OSS empowers websites with programming and technologies that make them easy to see, use, update and maintain.
This network of New York City-based PHP/.NET programmers and Flash developers specializes in transforming great website designs into fully functional online destinations.
OSS is fluent in all major development tools and languages, including PHP, ASP.NET, Actionscript, AJAX, MS SQL and MySQL databases, advanced Flash animation and Flash Video.
Among their services: helping clients choose the technology that best suits their needs and developing websites that seamlessly integrate with existing services, including e-commerce tools and shipping modules.
T 877.888.0282
W www.oss-usa.com
Pantone
Headquartered in Carlstadt NJ, Pantone is the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries.
Since 1963, Pantone has seen its role as inspiring graphic artists and design professionals with products, services and technology for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity.
Over the years, Pantone expanded its color matching system to color-critical industries such as digital technology, fashion, home, plastics, architecture and contract interiors, and paint. Today, the brand is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication for everyone from designers and manufacturers to retailers and customers. Recently, Pantone announced the PANTONE Goe System, the first completely new color inspiration and specification system for the graphic arts industry since the introduction of the PANTONE Matching System 45 years ago.
With more than 2,000 new PANTONE Colors, the Goe System is designed to inspire creativity and fulfill the requirements of a rapidly changing, technologically advancing industry.
T 201.935.5500
W www.pantone.com
PaperSpecs
Mill consolidations, discontinued paper lines, color changes and updated paper properties — never before has the paper industry been changing so quickly. With a weekly news splash, PaperSpecs helps creatives stay on top of paper news, industry insights, new swatchbooks and promotions, while providing popular paper tips such as hands-on information and advice that's easy to understand.
Each week, specifiers get a weekly dose of paper news right on their desktops. Membership includes access to an interactive paper guide with information on more than 4,200 papers from over 65 mills.
T 650.321.5152
W www.paperspecs.com
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design has been a forerunner in the field of art and design since its founding in 1896. By locating visual beauty in the ordinary things of middle-class American life, Parsons has even been credited with inventing the modern concept of design in America.
From the beginning, the faculty has consisted of designers who teach part-time, which gives students the unique advantage of being taught by successful working professionals. In addition to an undergraduate program, the school offers continuing education, graduate degrees and an associate degree.
W www.parsons.edu
PhotoAlto
PhotoAlto was founded in 1994 by a group of photographers and graphic designers with a shared passion for images. PhotoAlto works with a group of independent photographers to produce and create images with a distinctive edge.
Although started in Europe, it is now deeply committed to the American market, offering a distinctive heritage and approach and a style that emphasizes a continuity of themes and images, often through the intriguing paradigm of one theme, one photographer, one CD-ROM. Current collections include the royalty free PhotoAlto, PaintoAlto and Zen Shui, and the rights managed ès collection.
W www.photoalto.us
The Photolibrary Group
The Photolibrary Group represents over 250 leading brands and 2,000+ photographers from around the world. It brings memorable, workable content to the creative communities of Europe, America, Asia and the Pacific. Customers have access to over 3 million images and over 2,000 hours of footage.
The Photolibrary Group is comprised of www.photolibrary.com (general rights managed and royalty free imagery) and www.indexopen.com (a royalty free subscription service),
as well as the specialist agencies www.osfimages.com and www.osffootage.com (natural world images and footage), www.gardenpictures.com (garden and botanical), www.monsoonimages.com (fine art) and
www.freshfoodimages.com (food and wine). The company has offices in the U.K., U.S., Australia, Singapore, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand and the U.A.E.
T 800.729.7466
W www.photolibrary.com www.indexopen.com
Photos.com
The royalty free subscription service revolution continues unabated, and Photos.com, with a fast growing collection of more than 350,000 professionalquality photographs and photo objects, is a leader in the movement.
Subscribers can download up to 250 photos per day for one fee. The selection is fresh, and the site features usable imagery in the most popular file sizes available for every photo user.
Committed to community, the site offers three community-oriented areas for interaction with other designers, sharing ideas and seeing what one's peers are doing: Designer Spotlight, a showcase of designers and their skills; a fun-to-read blog; and Photos.com Forums. Photos.com is part of the Jupiterimages family.
T 800.482.4567
W www.photos.com www.jupiterimages.com
Picturehouse
Launched jointly in London and New York in 2001, picturehouse is the only event of its kind that brings together the buyers and suppliers of photography, illustration and footage in city center locations around the world, from New York, Chicago and San Francisco to Paris, Sydney and Toronto. The events are intimate: the perfect place for buyers to discover great new imagery and meet the people behind the scenes, renew old contacts and forge new ones. All sizes of image suppliers, from multinationals to specialist photographers, are represented, as are all styles of imagery, from contemporary photography to historical illustration. The events are professional as well as informal and free to attend.
W www.picturehouse.org
Polyart by Arjobex
This substrate has a unique clay coating on both sides of a high performance, high density polyethylene base, enabling it to be printed with any of the conventional printing processes, as most variable information processes and some digital printing processes, such as thermal transfer. Excellent grease, water and tear resistance, combined with good dimensional stability, makes Polyart especially suitable for tag and label applications, point-ofpurchase, posters, menus and other collateral where printability, convertibility and durability are critical. Arjobex has been manufacturing this first plastic medium designed for graphics professionals since the 1970s. It currently has production facilities in Charlotte NC, as well as France and the UK.
T 800.765.9278
W www.polyart.com
Potlatch Corporation
How do you derive commercial value from a forest while ensuring its long-term sustainability? Polatch Corporation has led the way in answering that question since 1903 — as a landowner, as a grower and harvester of trees and as a manufacturer of forest and paper products.
Today, as a real estate investment trust, it owns approximately 1.7 million acres of forestland in four states. Every acre used for silviculture is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and managed for maximum value.
Through its subsidiary, Potlatch Forest Products Corporation, the company operate 13 facilities around the country that produce a variety of wood and paper products. Two paperboard brands of note for graphic artists: Ancora and Candesce.
Ancora is a high-end, coated two-side bleached white paperboard — one of just three such products manufactured in a full line of calipers in the U.S. and the only one that is on-label FSC-certified.
Candesce is the umbrella brand for premium lines of C1S folding carton and commercial print paperboard, carded packaging, cupstock, liquid packaging board and more.
T 866.730.4787
W www.potlatchcorp.com
Pratt Institute
The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.
Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions.
The school features graduate and continuing education programs, as well as undergraduate studies.
T 718.636.3600
W www.pratt.edu
Presstek
Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Presstek has been focused on providing cost effective, environmentally friendly offset printing solutions to the industry. This visionary approach and the heavy R&D investments made over the years are paying off now for print buyers everywhere.
Buyers are challenged to produce high quality printed products in shorter runs and with faster turnaround times than ever before. Presstek direct imaging (DI) digital offset printing presses are designed to make extremely high quality printing in runs as low as 250 on a wide range of substrates available to meet even the tightest production schedules.
As an added bonus, note company officials, this is all done using an environmentally friendly process.
W www.presstek.com
Printfirm, Inc.
Printfirm, Inc., is a printing and graphics firm dedicated to making business cards, postcards, stationery, presentation folders and note pads easier for graphic designers and other print buyers to order online.
W www.viaprintfirm.net
PsPrint
By combining the very best in web technologies with state-of-the-art production facilities, PsPrint delivers online convenience combined with fast turnaround and very competitive prices.
Online convenience is the watchword for this company, which features a breadth of product offerings and features like an intuitive website with instant pricing, online ordering and real-time order tracking tools.
Printing facilities on both the East and West Coast cut your delivery time and expense. In addition to printing offers, the company is also "your marketing edge," with the solutions such as the Design It! online design tool that enables designers to create custom business cards and postcards, and an expert mailing service.
W www.psprint.com
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