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 TrustPoor 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.

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.

Campus Philly

Cloud Gehshan Associates

Elisabeth Kalogris

Fred Masters & Diane Gingles

Icon Magazine

Jane Pepper

Julia & Leslie Dutton

Linda McAleer

Suzanne & William Becker

Christopher & Wendy Born

Christopher Anastasiou

Dina & Jerry Wind

Eileen Tognini

Electronic Ink

Ellen Steiner

Ethnics Imports Inc.

F.L. Bissinger, Inc.

Fleisher Foundation

Frank Baseman Design

Gabriele Lee

Gallery 339

GPTMC

Hilary Jay & Bruce Benjamin

IFDA Philadelphia

Ilene Griff Design

Jamer Hunt and Judith Long

Jane Korman

Jeffrey Zarnoch

Joseph Castner

Laura Foster & Aaron Goldblatt

Margaret McLaughlin

Michael Ryan Architects

MPDC, LP

Norman & Suzanne Cohn

Quaker City Mercantile

Richard Nicholas, Inc.

Ross Family Fund

Sandra Alton

Sandvold Blanda

Schade and Bolender Architects

Sign and Design Inc.

The Calderwood Gallery

Twist

Adam LeGrand

Albert Comly, Jr.

Alusiv Inc.

AmeriGas Propane, LP

Andrew & Joanna Bottaro

Andrew & Patricia Risoli Toy

ARCH STUDIO 2227 LLC

Arqitecture

Avery Rome & Jeff Price

Barbara Ruth

Bedo Productions, Inc.

Beth Van Why

Biello Martin Studio

BLT Architects

Carla Bednar

Carmine Crisconi

Cashman & Associates

Cee Jay Frederick Associates

Charles Karl

Charles Tonetti

Cheryl Graff Tumola

Cheryl Levin

Clinton Clarke

Dana Pulli

David Casey

David Dye & Karen Heller

Debra Ward

Dena & Jerry Robbins

Desire Smith

Diane LaBelle

Dick Polman & Elise Vider

Dolores Browne Architect

DVRPC

Edith Newhall

Ella Schaap

Ellen Giacobbe Clark

Emil DeJohn

Emily Meyer

Emmott Photography, Inc.

Feast Your Eyes Catering

Fresh Artists

Garz Associates, LLC

Gay & Herbert Henze

George Nakashima Woodworker

Germaine Irwin

Gotz Unger

Greenable

H2L2 Architects/Planners LLC

Harry & Lucille Hannigan

Helen Evelev

Heli Ojamaa

Herman DeJong, RA

Hilary Langer

Inga Saffron

Jack & Helen Larimore

James Fulton & Eric Rymshaw

Jane Green

Jeffrey Totaro, Photographer

Jennifer Stuller

Jill Sablosky

Jinous Kazemi & Howard Verlin

Joan Wenger

Joanna Fulginiti

John Kelly, ASID

John Blatteau Associates Inc.

Joshua Otto

Julie Courtney

JXN Studio LLC

Karol Wasylyshyn

Kevin Brophy

Kevin Derrick

Kimmel Bogrette Architecture

Kristin Parsons Interiors

Kristy Schultz

Lawrence Reichlin

Leslie Pontz

Lillian Shaye

Lisa Benn Costigan

Lois Sesskin

Lorle Wolfson

Lyn & George Ross

Lyn Godley

Lynne Bloome

Marciarose Shestack

Marco Morsella

Marilyn Arnold Palley

Mark Gallini

Mark Karlen

Marla Soffer

Marsha Moss

Mary Kubach

Mary Ann Koller

Melissa Mather

MGA Partners

Michael Norris

Michael Shannon

Michael Trusa

Michele Langer

Mimi Boston Johnson, LLC

Missy Moyer

Morgan Obidowski

Neil Kleinman

Next American City

Ozwalled Wall Graphics

Patricia & Robert Moss-Vreeland

Paul Curci

Philly Office Retail.com

Phoebe Resnick

Poltronieri Tang & Associates

Ray & Sis Grenald

Rebecca Dator

Regina Wagner

Rita Rome

RMJM

Robert & Holly Enichen

Robert Ingram & Katherine Halton

Rosa Esquenazi

S & S Resources, Inc

Sally Simmons

Samuel Gordon Architects

Sara Garonzik

Sarah Thorp

Sharon & Park Furlong

Shirley Sue Swaab

Sklar, Carmosin, & Co.

Snyderman-Works Galleries

Stephan Copeland

Stephen Varenhorst Architects

Steve Stegman & Paul Corpening

Susie Schultz

The Honickman Foundation

The Kaufman Partner

Timothy & Elizabeth Blankenhorn

Todd Baylson

Tom Crane

Tuomi Forrest

Veyko, Inc.

Virgil Marti & Peter Barberie

W. Daniel Kayser

William & Vivian Gast

Wolf Design / Tabula Studio

Wormwood & Haze Fine Art