2008 Category Sponsors

The 2008 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards benefit greatly from the participation of our sponsors, who join forces to enhance the creative process for students all around the world. These sponsors give graciously of their assets, their services, or their time to support the Design Achievement Awards experience for international students everywhere.

Together, we are working toward an exceptional year in our quest to recognize the best and brightest in student design. We sincerely appreciate all of our sponsors' contributions to 2008 ADAA and are pleased to recognize their generosity.

Category sponsors make significant financial contributions to sponsor an entire category of creative efforts.

iStockphoto, is the world’s busiest image market, with an image downloaded every 2.5 seconds. iStock pioneered the micropayment phenomenon in this industry, enabling buyers to license images for as little as a dollar. iStockphoto entered the stock video market with similarly enticing price points in September of 2006. In partnership with its members, iStockphoto has turned community into commerce, transforming the digital imagery market by encouraging passionate dialogue and education, while making imagery affordable to businesses that may not have licensed imagery otherwise. iStockphoto is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Getty Images.

MAXON Computer is the developer of the professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D. Its award-winning products are used extensively in broadcast, film, science, architecture, engineering and other industries. MAXON products have recently been used for Spider-Man (1,2,3), Surf's Up, Ghost Rider, Open Season, Monster House, Eragon, The Chronicles of Narnia, Jeopardy, Polar Express, The Fantastic Four (1 and 2), Superman Returns, and the On-Air Packages for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Discovery, ESPN, NFL Network, Spike, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and more. MAXON has offices in Germany, California, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.

A perennial Graphic Design USA “Designer Friendly Company,” Xerox is leading the transition from traditional printing to The New Business of Printing -- powerful digital technologies that enable just-in-time, 1-to-1 and “e” printing solutions. In addition to providing innovative hardware, software and workflow solutions, Xerox shares its market-leading digital printing knowledge with Creative Pros through a variety of forums, including www.xerox.com/creative. Xerox also offers Creative Pros, and other print buyers, fast and easy access to a global network of more than 650 vanguard Xerox-equipped digital print services providers. These Xerox Premier Partners are just a click away from helping with the great work you do for clients.

X-Rite color management solutions allow designers to do what they do best: create. For designers working in a digital environment, the streamlined creative process still presents challenges in trying to maintain accurate, precise color. By making it easy to control and manage color throughout the entire workflow—beginning with the most critical device—an accurately profiled monitor, the creative process takes on true-to-life colors. X-Rite’s award winning color management systems give designers precise color control of scanned artwork, images captured with a digital camera, desktop printers, high-end proofers and commercial presses that translate color from one device to the next—quickly, easily.

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