Grant Heilman Photography
 Grant Heilman Photography is the most noted source of agricultural
photography. Grant Heilman began marketing his imagery in 1948.
Since then, the library has grown to more than a half million
images, including a vintage collection of black and white photos
showcasing farm life during the Great Depression and beyond.
The library is aptly situated in bucolic Lancaster County PA.
Not resting on its laurels, the company is expanding, having
acquired, effective January 1, Photo Network Stock, the quarter-century-old,
Southern California-based stock agency. Photo Network Stock’s
founder and owner, Cathy Aron, recently accepted an offer from
the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) to become its executive
director. Grant Heilman president, Sonia Wasco, says that “adding
Photo Network’s library of lifestyle images will allow
us to further fulfill the needs of our existing clients and open
up new markets to clients we have not been able to reach.”
T 800.622.2046
W www.heilmanphoto.com
Hemera
Hemera creates and sells royalty-free digital images to the
consumer, business and creative professional markets. Hemera's
image products are available via two websites — hemera.com
(clip art, illustration and photo objects) and ablestock.com
(high resolution, royalty free imagery via subscription or
single download.) Hemera recently added visual search capabilities
to both sites, allowing users to find images with similar colors,
themes and compositions with just one click. “The visual
search element offers our customers a brand new way to explore
image collections creatively,” says Alan M. Meckler,
chairman and ceo of Jupitermedia Corporation, which now owns
the sites. The new search engines on Hemera Image Express and
AbleStock.com have been enhanced by Idee Inc.’s Espion
Visual Search, a technology that analyzes the pixels in each
image and creates a searchable index of colors, patterns
and compositions in online image collections. When reviewing
the results of an initial keyword search, users can now look
for visually similar images by clicking the visual search button
on the search results page. Users have the option to use
the visual search feature with or without entering keywords.
www.ablestock.com,
www.hemera.com,
www.imageexpress.com,
www.jupitermedia.com
Hewlett-Packard
HP is a technology solutions provider for consumers, businesses
and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT
infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global
services and imaging and printing. According to a company statement, “We
invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive
business value, create social value and improve the lives of
our customers.” HP's four core business groups are the
Enterprise Systems Group, the Imaging and Printing Group, HP
Services and the Personal Systems Group. Among the product
areas of special interest to the creative community are high
end HP workstations driven by dual Intel Xeon processors for
powerful digital content creation and computer-generated graphics,
and an array of top-notch color printers and proofers.
T 866.625.3240
W www.hp.com
Hillstock
Hillstock is an independently owned, nostalgic graphics shop
that sells old-fashioned clip art from The Hillstock Collection.
The company was founded upon the belief that “New isn’t
always improved!” All images undergo digital restoration
and enhancement and are then transformed into unique collections.
Principal Averyl Hill was originally inspired to start the
company by her grandmother’s collection of Victorian “scraps” and
other ephemera. She says that “many of the early American
illustrators embraced an innocence and magic that modern society
craves.” Companies are licensing Hillstock designs for
advertising, marketing and product lines including greeting
cards, posters, decorative tins, retail gifts and the like.
www.vintageclipart.com
Imagers
Imagers began in 1947 and, in more recent times, the company
has developed a national following of designers for its digital
prepress, production and short run printing services. Imagers
provides instant online quotes, order entry and FTP job submittals.
Products include true digital offset four color printing, posters
for indoor or outdoor use, color lasers, hi-res film scans,
digital photo prints, slide imaging and much more. The company
is extremely strong on customer service and quick turnarounds,
with many services performed overnight. For GDusa readers,
a free print sample or scan is available.
T 800.398.5821
W www.imagers.com/free
Image Source
Image Source is a fast-growing, independent European producer,
supplier and distributor of creative royalty free and Easy
Rights imagery. Founded by Christina Vaughan in 1999, Image
Source now supplies photography to creative professionals
based around the world. The entire collection — individual
images and hundreds of themed discs — can now be searched,
purchased and downloaded online. Easy Rights is Image Source’s
new licensing system, based on the traditional rights managed
system but designed to simplify the purchase of large-scale
protected image uses. Clients can purchase images for a set
time and territory; they are guaranteed total exclusivity
on the image at that time and place.
www.imagesource.com
Indexed Visuals
Indexed Visuals, the largest online source of stock and custom
medical illustration, as well as a source for commercial art,
has a new web design. With over 40 enhancements, such as the
ability to track favorite artists and a new IV-Zoom feature
that enlarges images to show high-resolution detail, the site
makes it easier for art buyers to find the right illustrations
and artists. Other innovations include personal light boxes
for saving, reviewing and sharing images, and a comping option
for art buyers to download higher-resolution images. Indexed
Visuals differs from traditional stock agencies by referring
art buyers directly to the artist, serving as a medium to bring
art buyers and illustrators together. By dealing directly with
artists, art buyers can purchase existing stock art, modify
pieces for a specific application or commission new works.
T 866.4.IVPICS
W www.IndexedVisuals.com
InteliCoat
InteliCoat Technologies manufactures coated paper, film and
specialty substrates for use with imaging and electronic technologies.
Its Magic and Azon brands offer an array of digital imaging
substrates for graphics, desktop, proofing and design engineering
applications and information storage. Of particular note for
creative is the innovative Magic line of solvent ink jet media,
including Magic GFCVM 17-mil, matte finish, artist stretch
polyester/cotton blend canvas media; Magic GFPHOTO 6-mil glossy
photorealistic paper, which is ideal for high-resolution gloss
posters and displays; and Magic GFVSF/SIJ, a 9-mil super high-strength
banner media developed in partnership with Valéron Strength
Films.
T 800.628.8604
W www.magicinkjet.com
Iomega
“Save Everything” is a phrase that often appears
in Iomega marketing communications. It is hugely appropriate,
since the company is a world leader in easy-to-use, high value
data storage and data protection solutions that help graphic
artists protect, secure, capture and share digital information.
Iomega’s award-winning data storage products include the
new Iomega REV Drive with seven times the capacity of DVDs, the
popular Zip Drives, high-performance desktop and network hard
drives, USB drives, external CD/DVD combination drives, DVD burners
and the Iomega Floppy USB-Powered Drive. Iomega also simplifies
data protection and sharing with a range of backup and CD burning
software. And the company offers storage solutions for networks,
as well as a data recovery services for lost data from hardware
failure, file corruption or media damage, so that you can, well, “Save
Everything.”
T 888.4.IOMEGA
W www.iomega.com, www.saveeverything.com
JupiterImages
JupiterImages is an emerging powerhouse in the area of digital
content. A division of Jupitermedia, it offers over four million
images online via subscriptions and single image downloads.
Find clipart, web graphics, photos and footage through a comprehensive
network of design-oriented websites for industry professionals
and individual consumers. Among the well-known collections,
sites and brands which are now part of JupiterImages are Comstock
Images, Thinkstock Images, Thinkstock Footage, Photos.com and
Hemera.com. Parent company Jupitermedia is headquartered in
Darien CT, and is a global provider of original information,
images, research and events for information technology, business
and creative professionals through JupiterWeb, its online media
division, JupiterResearch, an international research advisory
organization, and JupiterEvents, which produces offline conferences
and trade shows as well as JupiterImages.
www.jupiterimages.com, www.jupitermedia.com
Kaleidoscope Imaging
 Kaleidoscope offers vertically integrated solutions for package
and product development. The company has built an excellent
reputation for helping consumer product marketers and graphic
designers develop and implement brand packaging solutions. Characterized
by a culture of innovation and creativity, Kaleidoscope has
full service studios in Chicago and New York, and provides solutions
through design implementation, color exploration and proofing,
packaging mockups, modelmaking and prototyping. A noteworthy
recent development is the opening of a large, beautiful and
functional Manhattan location on West 38th Street, with a gala
party and much fanfare.
T 773.722.9300 (Chicago),
212.631.9947 (New York)
W www.ksimage.com
Karr Graphics
Located in New York City, Karr Graphics has been putting ink
on paper for the design community for over 35 years. Specialty
print process offerings include foil stamping, embossing,
engraving, die cutting and letterpress, as well as two through
seven color printing. Online proofing and ordering is also
available for all stationery products. With an experienced
production team and modern equipment, Karr Graphics is talented
at bringing design concepts alive in print. “It's not unusual to
have several clients down for press checks over the course
of a day. As a matter of fact, we encourage it,” says
President Larry Karr. A “Hot Stuff Sample Kit” is
available, and and updated website will launch this March.
(An example of Karr’s work appears on an insert bound
into this issue of GDusa.)
T 212.645.6000
W www.karrgraphics.com
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