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Appleton Coated
Appleton Coated LLC, a subsidiary of Arjo Wiggins, is responsible for producing and marketing Utopia, one of North America’s favorite brands of high quality, bright white, fine coated paper. The Utopia lineup is comprehensive, encompassing Utopia Premium, Utopia One X, Utopia One, Utopia Two, Utopia Three, Utopia Book and Utopia CS+. An innovative “U B the Judge” design competition features works on Utopia. Entries appear in regional events throughout the country, and designers in attendance judge the work of their peers in two categories –– commercial/public service and self-promotion. Platinum winners become the basis for a touring show. Entry forms can be downloaded from the website. Other Appleton Coated gradelines include Altima and the Curious Collection.

www.appletoncoated.com, www.curiouscollection.com

Art Resource
Art Resource prides itself on serving the needs of the design and advertising worlds with the utmost care, settling for nothing less than the ideal image. Art Resource is a leading photo archive of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts, with images derived from over 6,000 museums, monuments and archaeological sites. Noteworthy is the fact that Art Resource is the exclusive representative of over 100 of the world's leading museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Tate Gallery and all 51 of France’s national museums, among them the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay. The website contains over 150,000 of its most sought after images. Registration is free.

T 212.505.8700
W www.artres.com

Artisan
Since opening in 1988, Artisan has blossomed into a powerful national creative and production staffing supplier of freelance and fulltime talent, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. The client roster includes Fortune 500 companies, leading ad agencies, design firms and multimedia, web, publishing and entertainment companies. Artisan, whose watchword is “Matching Talent With Success,” specializes in pairing graphic design, web design, illustration, packaging design, multimedia, production, presentation graphics, writing and pure graphic design personnel with a client’s specific needs, on a freelance or full time employment basis. The company also provides many benefits to freelancers.

T 800.216.0600
W www.artisanetalent.com

Aspen Packaging & Media
For two decades, Aspen Packaging & Media has been designing and manufacturing innovative, interesting and effective packaging solutions for CD ROMs and DVDs, promotional items, literature, VHS and point-of-purchase. Most packaging companies produce either one or the other, but Aspen manufactures both film laminated paperboard and corrugated solutions for creative projects. Why both? Officials say that using both materials gives designers the best finished product at the best price point. Other services include packaging design, templates creation that can be imported into designer’s drawing programs, prepress, offset printing, laminating, die cutting, mounting, folding and gluing, shrink wrapping, CD/DVD authoring, fulfillment and mailing services.

www.aspenpkg.com

Berthold
Berthold Types is a leading source for high quality, classic typefaces. Founded in 1858 in Berlin, the Berthold foundry is renowned for crafting high quality typefaces, and the company continues this tradition through the efforts of three master type designers, G.G. Lange, Bernd Möllenstädt and Dieter Hofrichter, who comprise the core of Berthold’s Type Atelier in Munich. Berthold exclusively offers the 800+ classic typefaces comprising the Berthold Exklusiv Collection, including the highly regarded Akzidenz-Grotesk typeface design. Berthold first published Akzidenz-Grotesk, the original sans and most influential grotesque, in 1896. Through the years, it has been consistently improved, adding to its universal appeal. This year Berthold has added a valuable new resource for creative on the website: Berthold Style Probes, a comprehensive display of text and headline specimens in PDF format that can be downloaded to help designers pick the perfect typeface for any project.

www.bertholdtypes.com

Boise
Boise provides solutions to help customers work more efficiently, build more effectively and create new ways to meet business challenges. The company owns or controls more than two million acres of timberland, primarily in the United States, to support manufacturing operations. The Boise Paper Solutions division manufactures, among other things, commercial printing, forms and converting papers, value added papers, newsprint, containerboard and corrugated containers, and market pulp. For graphic designers and printers, Boise Opaque (formerly known as Cascade Opaque) is a particularly important grade. The sheet is highly dependable and features superb formation and a 93 bright blue-white shade. The “Boise Opaque Comparison Guide” compares the formation of Boise’s offerings head-to-head with leading competitors.

T 800.294.0561
W www.boisepaper.com

BullseyeImages.com
The diverse collections of eight unique stock agencies are accessible on this single searchable site. Enter keywords in a searchbox and the site pulls all appropriate images from each BullsEye collection into one convenient search results page. Creatives can then click on any image to enter the supplier’s site and see preview-size images. Register on BullsEye for access to all eight sites. The eight BullsEye member agencies are Animals Animals, Bridgeman Art Library, Grant Heilman Photography, IllustrationWorks, PhotoNetwork Stock, Phototake USA, Retrofile, QueerStock and StockFood.

www.bullseyeimages.com

Burdge, Inc.
Burdge, Inc., is a printing and engraving company specializing in corporate stationery brand management. Since 1923 Burdge has been providing clients with a combination of printing, engraving, foil stamping, embossing, thermography and diecutting meant to enhance the corporate brand through stationery products — business cards, letterheads, envelopes, announcements, presentation folders and the like. The company has won hundreds of awards for printing excellence and offers expert consulting on the cost effectiveness of different printing solutions. Recently, Burdge has ventured into developing online order entry tools that allow companies to customize online corporate brand management systems with the goal of maintaining brand consistency. Burdge, Inc. craftspeople also manufacture unique packaging, labels, gift tags, fine art works and other specialty printed products.

T 800.962.2486
W www.burdge.com

Canon USA
Canon USA, headquartered in Lake Success NY, is a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. The extensive product line enables businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute information. Canon products include color and black-and-white copiers, printers, image filing systems, facsimile machines, cameras and lenses, broadcast and optical equipment, camcorders, semiconductors, flatbed scanners and other specialized industrial products. The company is listed by Fortune as one of the “Most Admired Companies in America” and is ranked high on the Business Week list of “Top 100 Brands.” Creative have always been drawn to the company for its cutting edge CLC color copier and printer products, as well as the successful imageRUNNER and Color imageRUNNER lines, large format printers, scanners and aftermarket products. A fun marketing program, “not business as usual,” is driving home the message that Canon solutions help people work the way they need to.

T 800.OK.CANON
W www.canonusa.com

Cascades Fine Papers Group
Cascades Inc. is a world leader in manufacturing innovative, value-added products. The Fine Papers Group of Cascades is responsible for more than 100 categories of high end uncoated fine papers, including brands such as Superfine Linen Record, Colonial Bond, Repro Plus, Rockland, Rolland Opaque, New Life Opaque, Rolland Motif and Jenson. The Rolland Division addresses the needs of graphic artists, providing “the ideal paper mill size to offer exclusive and customized products for graphic artists.” To that end, a new line of writing, text and cover is presently coming to life that promises “new colors, textures and possibilities.” And with a minimum of five tons, designers will be able to create an exclusive paper for a project with desired characteristics such as a special color, a particular finish and even a private watermark. Company officials assert that the new line “gives rise to all kind of possibilities and a chance for designers to open their mind to a wider scope of paper. It is something that bigger mills cannot offer. Our new family member will convince the skeptics that lots of things are possible! A new brand is coming that will inspire you.”

T 800.567.9872
W www.cascades.com

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