Bond Cuts Close to the Edge The term "cutting edge" is fast becoming a cliché. But when speaking about Bond, a full-service post-production house in downtown Manhattan, the phrase is more than apt... »
The facility’s film restoration work includes the classics The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Some Like It Hot, as well as three 1920s Howard Hughes films, one of which, Two Arabian Knights, had been one of only two Oscar-winning films previously considered lost.... »
Resident’s clients are an impressive group. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Matchbox 20, and director Hype Williams have all used Resident on their music videos and for the "video walls" that play behind their concert performances.... »
Brand New School is carbon neutral; they pay a voluntary tax to offset their carbon footprint. Bottled water has been banished from their offices, which, by the way, run on wind power; an option that’s available to most businesses and residences.... »
On a foreboding block at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan lies World Domination Design Group. Two signs on the doors to their headquarters read: "Create" and "Destroy." Upon first impression, however, the brother and sister team that run WDDG don’t seem all that bent on conquering the world. Instead, they offer up a tray of biscotti.... »
According to Eric Hanson, CEO, Spy Post is "the only company North of Los Angeles and West of the Rockies and possibly West of the Mississippi that can offer high-end visual effects including Flame and CG, VFX editorial, color correction and film-to-tape transfer with a Spirit, as well as a full HD-based digital intermediate pipeline."... »
Digital Kitchen, which considers itself a non-traditional design shop, is quite literally all over the map, having produced site-specific "experiential" pieces in Hong Kong, Las Vegas and New York’s South Street Seaport.... »
Zoa Martinez, president and creative director of Zona Design, is a rock star in the design world. She sports a shocking-blue streak in her otherwise jet-black hair, plays an electric guitar that she keeps in her office, and refers to creative meetings as "jam sessions."... »
Something good came out of the 2000 dot-com bust (besides the demise of the self-satisfied, cigar-smoking, 19-year-old instant millionaire). Back in the day when it seemed that all things Internet would transform our dreary existence into something that would blow the mind of even George Jetson, there existed a well-regarded broadcast design company called Pittard Sullivan.... »
