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a21/SuperStock
a21 serves the digital content marketplace by providing stock imagery for the graphic design community through its operating subsidiary, SuperStock. The mission: “To provide a whole new level of image access to the best photographers, artists, photography agencies and customers in the business, offering a valuable and viable choice in the stock image industry.” This winter, in furtherance of that goal, Thomas V. Butta was named president of a21 and ceo of SuperStock. Butta brings a proven record of brand building, scaling public companies and driving operational efficiencies. His initiatives are expected to include pursuing key channel relationships to distribute images in multiple venues, aggressively adding new content and continuing to add new capabilities and features to the recently revamped website. Butta has held high marketing posts at Red Hat, FGI, Young & Rubicam and Hill Holliday. He says, “I am convinced of a21/SuperStock's ability to help revolutionize the digital image industry.”

T 800.828.4545
W www.superstock.com, www.a21group.com

Admore
An industry leader in the production of presentation folders since 1947, Admore’s product line has expanded to include customized presentation and document folders, key and gift card holders, portfolios, certificate covers, binders, totes, photo holders, CD packaging and much more. Admore seeks to make it easy for graphic designers to create and purchase presentation products. A user-friendly website provides online design templates and set-up tip sheets for creating error-free files. State-of-the-art equipment and experience with detailed four-color design work make it easy for designers to produce first-rate projects with Admore. A computer-to-plate digital workflow system has eliminated film output costs and reduced the overall prepress time from disk to proofing to plate. Graphics include PMS, process and UV printing, foil stamping, embossing, laminating and UV coatings. Interestingly, Admore’s parent company, Ennis, was recently listed among the “200 Best Small Companies” by Forbes.

T 800.338.5525 (CA), 800.523.6673 (MI)
W www.admoreonline.com

Adobe
Adobe is the world's leading provider of software solutions for creating, managing and delivering high-impact, reliable digital content. For the handful of creative and production professionals who may not be aware, Adobe builds award-winning software for network publishing, including web, print, video, wireless and broadband applications. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually rich content for various types of media. The company’s products are used by graphic designers, web designers, publishers and other document-intensive organizations, businesses and consumers. The array of products it offers — including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat, among others — are industry standards. And its Creative Suite, which combines and integrates these products, is a best-seller. Adobe is the paradigm of a designer-friendly company, prospering from designers and helping designers to prosper.

T 800.833.6687
W www.adobe.com

age fotostock
age fotostock, a photo agency with offices in New York, Barcelona and Madrid, offers an image collection that exceeds one million pieces and spans an impressive range of subjects. Catering to the advertising and editorial markets, the company's rights protected and royalty free website, www.agefotostock.com, is quickly becoming a favorite among U.S. clients, thanks to a search engine marked by a combination of speed and simplicity, and the more than 500 new images uploaded daily. The agency is technologically advanced, possessing a sizeable inhouse digital lab for scanning, digital image creation and retouching services. Both rights managed and royalty free images are offered, the former characterized by diversity and extremely high quality editing, and the latter by “a unique blend of fresh, fun and contemporary images” from multiple collections. There are no research fees.

T 877.884.9800
W www.agefotostock.com

Agfa
For as long as memory serves, Agfa has been at the forefront of prepress solutions, an advocate for designers and print buyers, and a promoter of the beautifully printed piece. Agfa’s solutions connect equipment and production tasks into what it refers to as “The Graphic Enterprise.” In this regard, Agfa provides systems and solutions for commercial printers, packaging printers, newspapers and publishers— including software, equipment, consumables and services — that help content become the finished product. Agfa’s groundbreaking software, The Graphic Enterprise Suite, can help ad agencies and content providers stay in command of the entire project. :Delano provides project management capabilities in realtime online, letting the designer, printer and print buyer communicate and collaborate for online proofing, job approvals and status inquiries. :Arcadia offers intelligent dynamic publishing and asset management, and :ApogeeX workflow ensures the printer’s entire prepress system runs most efficiently. A designer’s passionate attention to detail is upheld with :Sublima, Agfa’s advanced screening that reproduces even the finest details with outstanding quality.

T 800.540.2432, ext. 4848
W www.agfa.com

Alamy
Alamy Images offers over two million royalty free and rights managed images, all available 24/7 for high resolution downloading. Its collection comprises high quality mainstream brands and specialist imagery from over 240 international picture agencies and 3,800+ photographers, and covers a wide range of categories, from lifestyles, concepts and business to architecture, horticulture, social and environmental issues and health. Flexible submission policies ensure that buyers have access to all materials. The company’s easy-to-use website is a technological marvel; at the same time, the company prides itself on strong offline customer service. Alamy recently augmented its collection with a host of high profile North American collections such as Big Cheese Photo, Black Star, Dynamic Graphics/Creatas, Hemera, Two Lane America, Samantha Scott and Transtock, just to name a few.

W www.alamy.com

Alaska Stock Images
Alaska Stock Images is Alaska’s largest rights managed and royalty free stock photography agency. The company represents over 100 photographers, and specializes in nature, wildlife, scenery and people. Search, purchase and download can be done online for advertising, editorial, multimedia and web applications. Online searching has been simplified and made more precise; through the “Gallery” page designers can browse by specific categories, and within each category are various subcategories to further narrow the results. The Alaskan Express Division offers royalty free stock photo images available individually as well as in collections of 100 Alaskan images on CD.

T 800.487.4285
W www.alaskastock.com

Alcan Composites USA
This hands-down leader in the area of graphic display boards has been busy. During the past year, Alcan Composites USA has strengthened its offerings with the addition of Gator and Fome-Cor to its well-established Sintra and Dibond product lines, giving the company the widest array of substrates in the North American graphic displays market. It has contemporized its image with bold new graphics and a striking “Legends” marketing and collateral program and continued to add to and refine its products and colors, such as with the recent addition of Dibond Brushed Gold to its offerings.Finally, Alcan launched a robust new website that makes it easier for creatives to select the right product using a convenient interactive product selector tool. “The new website,” says Marketing Manager David Meacham, “was designed with the needs of busy creative professionals in mind.” It appears as though the whole organization has been designed to that end.

T 800.626.3365
W www.alcancompositesusa.com

Aperture Images
Aperture Images, an online licensing collection, is a division of the nonprofit Aperture Foundation, which produces fine art photography books and a quarterly magazine, and is proprietor of the Paul Strand Archive. The online collection is comprised of black-and-white and color contemporary photography, and offers an alternative to traditional stock photography themes; the focus is on “outstanding and unique photography that meets commercial expectations.” The diverse collection includes images by various photographers published in its critically acclaimed books and in Aperture Magazine. Also included are images from the Paul Strand Archive, and new photography that “meets the organization’s standards for creativity, quality and overall excellence.”

T 212.505.5555
W www.apertureimages.org

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Apple Computer
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 80s with the Macintosh. Today, the company continues to lead in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, the OS X operating system, and its iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with the iPod and the iTunes online music store. The company remains a dynamic force in the creative space by leveraging technological leadership and the intense brand loyalty it has come to engender. Apple’s first love and major success has been in the design and publishing markets, with the Mac and its progeny putting content creators in the center of all media. Among recent popular introductions are the new iMac G5, featuring a G5 processor and a stunning new design that fits the entire computer into a flat panel display, packing the computer into a mere two inches of depth. And at presstime: introduction of the Mac mini computer at less than $500 that can connect to the current monitor, USB keyboard, and even your two-button mouse... or be built into a complete system by adding a display, keyboard and mouse.

T 800.MY.APPLE (Apple Stores)
W www.apple.com

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