The Design Center at Philadelphia University

The Design Center at Philadelphia University is the rare institution solely devoted to design, showing us just how design shapes everyday life. Through its presentation of gallery exhibitions, enrichment programs, lectures and special events – such as DesignPhiladelphia – the center reflects Philadelphia University's extensive design curriculum encompassing architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, graphic design, textile design, fashion, interactive media and product design. The Center's library and collection serve as outstanding resources for scholarly research and provide inspiration to designers, artists, educators, students and aficionados.

DuPont™ Corian®

DuPont™ Corian® solid surfaces allow you to create a space as individual as you are. With over 130 colors to choose from let your inner designer loose with inlays, seamless backsplashes, and inline solid surface sinks. Backed by a residential limited warranty, Corian® solid surfaces are tough enough to stand up to everyday realities of a busy home.

City Paper

Founded in November of 1981, City Paper has the area's largest readership of any weekly newspaper by publishing original, powerfully presented, award-winning editorial content. City Paper is blanketed across area businesses and high-traffic areas in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Chester, Bucks & Delaware Counties, South Jersey and Delaware. City Paper is a controlled-circulation newspaper, distributed free every Thursday morning to over 2,000 locations. Approximately one-third are distributed through newspaper boxes; the other two-thirds are distributed in office and apartment buildings and in high-traffic retail locations which include restaurants, entertainment spots and other public places.

Modernism

Modernism is a quarterly magazine about 20th-century modernist design, featuring interiors, architecture and decorative arts in the Art Deco, midcentury, Pop and postmodern styles.

Paragraph

Begun in 1991, Paragraph is a Brand Agency. Our name comes from our ability to marry words and images for the purpose of communicating a concise message about your company, your products and services, and your way of doing things. Our creative mantra - “Be simple. Be clear. Be good.” - drives everything we do. Including how we work to target your message to your audiences

Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust has supported DesignPhiladelphia since its inception.

Bresslergroup

Bresslergroup develops innovative product solutions via integrated user research, interaction and industrial design and production engineering. Since its founding in 1970, Bresslergroup has won more than 80 major design awards including IDEA, MDEA, iF Hanover and Appliance Design. Bresslergroup has also authored more than 120 patents.

Canary Promotion and Design

Canary Promotion + Design is an arts-focused business that has been serving the cultural and creative communities since 2001. Our personalized publicity and marketing services specialize in integrating new media strategies with traditional techniques to create wide-reaching media campaigns. Our custom websites feature beautiful, functional and friendly design using the Drupal content management system and framework. Every pixel has a purpose. Every client has a unique story. And we see to it that they all make an impact.

DiningInfo

DiningInfo is an online restaurant database serving major metro centers. With over 52,000 restaurants, the company focuses on its unique Wine-Friendly Rating and provides current and accurate information about menus, pricing, location, reservations, corkage fees and 40 other features. DiningInfo partners with AllMenus, OpenTable, and Yelp to deliver a seamless dining research experience. Launched in April 2009, DiningInfo’s GoBYO.com lists over 17,000 restaurants that allow you to bring your own bottle of wine. Let DiningInfo be your all-in-one source for dining out. The company is proud to support Dining By Design and ShareUrMeal.com.

Innovation Printing & Communications

Innovation Printing & Communications is a privately owned commercial printing company that has been doing business for over thirty years in the Mid Atlantic Region. Innovation’s complete line of graphic services include Web to Print Solutions, Sales, Production, Estimating, Digital Pre-Press, Digital Printing, Sheet-fed Printing, Full-Service Bindery including Die-Cutting, Folding, Gluing, Warehousing and Fulfillment Services. Innovation’s largest client sector is the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Industries. Innovation Printing’s mission is to consistently exceed our customer's expectations; providing them with the highest level of quality while delivering products on-time at a reasonable cost.

Mural Arts

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is one of the nation's largest public arts initiatives of its kind. Our mission is to engage in art education and community public art collaborations, and to increase public access to art. Since the Mural Arts Program began, we have produced over 2,800 murals and educated over 20,000 underserved youth in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia.

Phillyfunguide

Phillyfunguide is the Greater Philadelphia region’s “go-to” web site for accurate and detailed information about upcoming cultural, entertainment and sporting events. Administered by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the site contains information on thousands of events and attractions. The content found on Phillyfunguide is also fed to events calendars for to over 20 partner sites including WXPN, Gophila.com, and the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The Bancorp

When it was introduced in 2000, The Bancorp's ability to create customized Internet banks for affinity partners set a new standard in financial services innovation. Today, The Bancorp Bank remains the only bank in the country dedicated to providing private-label banking and technology solutions for non-bank companies.

Vintage and Modern

VandM.com (formerly Vintage and Modern) is the online marketplace for antiques, furniture, art and jewelry direct from dealers around the world. Nearly 70,000 design savvy individuals visit the site every month to shop the 15,000+ items, learn what’s happening in the industry, research their favorite designers, and connect with their peers through social networking. VandM.com was recently called “The best vintage shopping on the web” by the Los Angeles Times and have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, and Design Milk. VandM.com is available in 34 languages and have offices in New York, Los Angeles, Argentina, and Brazil.

Finch Paper

Finch Paper LLC is widely recognized for the quality of its uncoated printing papers, its industry-leading customer service and commitment to sustainable forestry. Finch Premium Blend, Finch Fine text & cover, Finch Casa Opaque, Finch Opaque and the Finch Digital portfolio are popular environmental choices delivering value for corporate marketing materials, direct mail, book publishing, and business office use. Don’t compromise, economize with Finch Papers!

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) is a private, non-profit organization founded and funded in 1996 by the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pew Charitable Trusts. In 1997, GPTMC launched the first consumer campaign to promote to potential tourists the diverse historical, cultural and entertainment/leisure aspects of the five-county region (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia).

IKEA

IKEA offers a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.This is the idea at the heart of everything IKEA does, from product development and purchases to how we sell our products in IKEA stores globally.

Innovation Philadelphia

Innovation Philadelphia is a non-profit economic development organization that serves 11 counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. Innovation Philadelphia is working to establish the Greater Philadelphia Region as a national leader and world-class destination for Creative Economy industries, businesses and talent. Innovation Philadelphia leads regional efforts to attract and retain young professionals, ages 25-34, who are vital to fueling our workforce and economic growth.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

The commonwealth investment in artists, arts organizations, arts programs, and arts projects fosters the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts throughout the state. Funding for the PCA comes from the citizens of Pennsylvania through an annual state appropriation by the General Assembly. The PCA also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Design Milk

Polite Design

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