Artifice , Inc.

Industry:	Software, Software Development & Design
Revenues:	Under $20 Million

Description

Today at Artifice we publish, as shown by independent Alexa.com statistics, the Web's leading general architecture site, the leading architectural media site, the leading architecture community site, the top architectural email newsletter, the best-selling architectural reference CD-ROM, one of the most widely used 3D design tools ever, and the original and category-leading online petitions web site. Together, our sites serve millions of visitors monthly, while our products enhance creativity and community around the world.

Artifice, Inc. was founded in 1992 to develop and publish a new generation of creative 3D modeling software for the building design professions. Artifice continues that pioneering spirit today, developing and publishing new media and tools for environmental design, communication, and participation, from 3D home design to professional architecture.

These days we see ourselves as creators and international publishers of digital media for environmental designers and design aficionados, and as a committed provider of creative design tools. Our continuing mission is to creatively apply timeless principles of good tools and good design, in the fast-paced modern world of digital media. Learning from world culture, grounded in appropriate technology principles, our work is often guided by a progressively-refined philosophy of low-tech/high-tech.

Our award-winning family of 3D design tools, with its patented user interface and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, is the design-oriented 3D CAD DesignWorkshop® family, including DesignWorkshop Lite, Classic, and Professional. Our family of related web sites attracts literally millions of visitors, anchored by GreatBuildings.com, the leading general architecture site on the Web. Our innovative ASP web site is RenderCity!, providing both free and subscription-based daylight rendering over the web, using the Radiance lighting simulation software engine.

Artifice web sites include the most popular architecture site overall (GreatBuildings.com), the most popular architecture media site (ArchitectureWeek), and the most popular architecture community site (DesignCommunity.com), based on independent rankings at Alexa.com. Together these Artifice sites dominate architectural web.

Since its launch in May 2000, ArchitectureWeek has grown rapidly into the world's leading architecture magazine online. Delivering exceptional writing and great imagery to a larger design and building-related readership than the leading hardcopy architecture monthly, ArchitectureWeek is created 48 times each year by a team of internationally renowned architectural writers and photographers, supported up by reader contributions and premiere sponsors, using a dynamic Internet-based publishing model with a small core staff and a worldwide team of great contributors.

The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM, a multimedia encyclopedia of architecture published by Artifice, has been the best selling architecture CD-ROM at Amazon.com for more than 24 consecutive months. Our Artifice Images division provides quality architectural stock photography to leading publishers, authors, periodicals, and creative agencies worldwide, from our collection of ten of thousands of photos by represented photographers.

At Artifice we believe that good tools are clear, simple, and powerful. We create software with more functionality, not just more features. We hope you'll experience the power of this approach by using our software and media, which will help focus on your ideas and your creations, instead of on your computer.

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creative design tools

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Monthly Unique Visitors:	11,663
Site Rank:	135,471
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Exquisite artifice; The beautiful and intricate paper collages of Mary Delaney delight Richard Edmonds.(Features) The Birmingham Post (England); 10/23/2009 Byline: Richard Edmonds Mrs Delaney and her Circle. Edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts (Yale: pounds 40). Eighteenth century society loved beautiful things and the taste for the exquisite ranged from hand-painted fans to designer fabrics, wallpapers, porcelain and painted paper ...more