2009 DESIGNER FRIENDLY COMPANIES

Pantone
Pantone is the global authority on color and color standards for the design industries. Since 1963, Pantone has seen its role as inspiring design professionals with products, services and technology for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. Over the years, Pantone has 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 as the standard language for accurate color communication for everyone from designers to manufacturers to retailers and customers. A wholly-owned subsidiary of X-Rite, the company continues to innovate with new products such as 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 in 1962. The Goe System brings 2,058 new Pantone Colors to market, and is comprised of the Pantone GoeGuide, PantoneGoeSticks, myPANTONE palettes, and the Pantone GoeBridge
T 201.935.5500
W www.pantone.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 have been professional designers who teach part-time, which gives students the unique advantage of being taught by New York's successful working artists and designers. 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, they are now deeply committed to the American market, offering their 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 of the world’s 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 5 million images and over 2,000 hours of footage and, in an expanding area, 10,000 full composition music tracks. The Photolibrary Group is comprised of www.photolibrary.com (general rights managed and royalty free imagery), www.photostogo.com (royalty free subscription service) and specialist agencies www.osfimages.com and www.osffootage.com (natural world images and footage), www.gardenpicture.com (horticultural and botanical), www.monsoonimages.com (fine art), and the newest addition to the group, www.freshfoodimages.com (food and drink). The company is truly global, with offices in the UK, the U.S. and worldwide.
T 800.690.6979
W www.photolibrary.com

Photos.com
The royalty free subscription revolution continues unabated, and Photos.com, with a fast growing collection of more than 380,000 professional-quality photographs and photo objects, is both a pioneer and a leader in the movement. Images are constantly being added, up to 750 can be downloaded per month, and the site features usable imagery in the most popular file sizes available for every photo user. A new development Photos.com Plus, a more fulsome subscription that combines professionally shot photos with microstock images in one plan. Photos.com Plus is for creative professionals who need instant access to premium quality photos, illustrations, Flash, audio and more, including over a million images from the Stockxpert collection. From photographs to JPEG illustrations, Flash and fonts to audio files, Photos.com Plus offers roughly two million professional quality, downloadable files with over 100,000 new images added monthly.
T 800.482.4567
W www.photos.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, San Francisco and Atlanta 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 free to attend for professional art and photo buyers.
W www.picturehouse.org

Pratt Institute
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the largest independent colleges of art and design in the U.S., offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the schools of architecture, art and design, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Pratt is located on 25 landscaped acres in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and has a Manhattan campus in a large, renovated building on West 14th Street. Pratt declares its mission 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 continuing education programs as well.
T 718.636.3600
W www.pratt.edu

Presstek
Presstek is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high tech digital imaging solutions to the graphic arts and laser imaging markets. The company’s patented DI, CTP and plate products provide a streamlined workflow in a chemistry-free environment, thereby reducing printing cycle time and lowering production costs. Presstek solutions are designed to make it easier for printers to cost effectively meet increasing designer and print buyer demand for high-quality, shorter print runs, faster turnaround and “green” solutions, while providing improved profit margins.
T 603 595 7000
W www.presstek.com

The Print Council
Through education, awareness, market development, advocacy and research. The Print Council serves the industry to develop, maintain and increase the market for printed materials. Launched in 2003, The Print Council’s members represent companies of all sizes that share the common goal of increasing the print market, including many of the largest names in the industry. “Print in the Mix, a clearinghouse of research on print media effectiveness is published by the Printing Industry Center at Rochester Institute of Technologies and made possible by a grant from The Print Council. Ben Cooper is executive director.
W www.ThePrintCouncil.org, www.printinthemix.rit.edu

PrintFARM
PrintFarm is a full service printing company located in Miami FL. The company has decades of experience in producing high quality printed products at affordable prices and strives “from the conceptualization of the imprint to the final completed product” to be part of the team so as to provide the best online experience. The company offers a broad range of design services, offset and digital printing, bindery and finishing services. The firm’s watchword: “Dedication Through Simplicity. By streamlining our operation, we pass the savings on to you.”
T 866.400.0098
W www.printfarm.com

PS Print
PsPrint, founded in 1990 in Oakland, has grown from a one-room press shop to a cutting-edge internet printing company with a focus on delivering quality, affordability, and speed, along with a simplified online ordering system. The company has production facilities in both Pennsylvania and California and now employs more than 150 people. By combining the best in web technologies with state-of-the- art production facilities, PsPrint delivers online convenience combined with exceedingly fast turnaround and competitive prices. Part of the company’s appeal lies in a user-friendly website with instant pricing, online ordering and real-time order tracking tools. Printing facilities on both the East and West Coast cut delivery time and expense.
T 800.511.2009
W www.psprint.com