Welcome to 21CA.COM

The official website of 21st Century Art and Frank Coleman

Design . Development . Direction
Interactive . Online . TV . Video . Audio . Print

917-723-7315 (New York City) . e-mail: fbc@21ca.com

WE HAVE:

- Over 20 years of experience in all aspects of interactive media.
- Over 30 years of experience in all aspects of traditional media.
- Over 45 years of experience in the performing arts.

WE HELPED CREATE:

- The first commercial interactive television application.
- The first interactive music site on the web.
- The first commercial CD-ROM.
- The first independent CD-ROM.
- The first commercial DVD-ROM.
- The first website nominated for an Emmy Award.

Formed at the dawn of the home computer era as an anachronistic multimedia performing arts group, 21st Century Art (aka 21CA) has evolved into one of the world's top advanced media consultancies, with over 500 projects to our credit. A small sampling of these are featured here.

21CA has taken leadership roles in helping companies of all sizes develop a successful forward-looking strategy that integrates traditional media with the online world and emerging platforms.

21CA CEO Frank Coleman has been a key part of the project teams for many groundbreaking and first-of-its-kind works and the recipient of many prestigious awards and accolades.

In short, 21CA does anything that has anything to do with design, development and strategy for online, interactive, audiovisual, televised and printed media. Even more importantly, we understand the creative potential and commercial leveage that can be gained from a perceptive integration of these tools in a fast-changing world.

OVER 500 CLIENTS IN THE LAST 20 YEARS

Ben and Jerry's, Bloomberg TV, Bose, Braun, Broadvision, CBS, Chanel, Circle-in-the-Square Theatre, The Cutting Room, Digital Equipment Corp., Eastman Kodak, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fidelity, Gillette, Grand Marnier, Hyatt Resorts, I Am King, Land Rover, London Records, Lucent, MasterCard, McGraw-Hill, Merck, Moby, Novartis, PBS, Pepsi, Proctor and Gamble, Reebok, Republic of Ghana, Sharp Aquos, Michael Shvo, The Smithsonian Institution, Sony, V2 Records, The Young Gods.

21CA are experts at all aspects of audio/video/multimedia creation, capture, editing, compression and dissemination. Key software programs include Flash, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Adobe Director, Media Cleaner, After Effects, LiveType, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Bryce, Peak, ReCycle, Acid, Actionscript, Lingo, XML, HTML LiveStage, Pagemaker, PowerPoint, Exploria, Joomla, QuickTime, MIDI, Shockwave and many more.

We have extensive experience with XML integration in Actionscript (Flash), Qscript (QuickTime) and object-oriented Lingo (Director) and have developed an extensive toolkit of reusable code utilizing these technologies.

We also have extensive experience in desktop publishing, typography, QA, information architecture, application design, project management and viral marketing.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES:

- Winner of the 2004 Apple Design Awards for QuickTime Content for Education.
- Winner of the 2003 I.D. Interactive Media Design Review Bronze Award.
- Nominated for two 2003 Webby Awards (for Broadband and Best Practices).
- Nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for interactive television.
- Winner of the 2002 BAFTA (British Emmy) Award for Online Learning.
- Featured artist at the 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival.
- Nominated for a 1998 MIMC Award.
- Winner of the 1995 and 1996 NewMedia Magazine INVISION Awards.
- Featured artist at the 1994 Dallas Video Festival.
- First Prize at the 1994 International QuickTime Film Festival.
- Guest presenter at 1992 Comdex in Las Vegas.
- Featured on Apple Computer's web site.
- Original artwork commissioned by Polaroid.
- Featured panelist at industry conferences in New York and Boston.
- Guest lecturer on New Media at Harvard and Boston Universities.

MEDIA APPEARENCES AND PROFILES:

Wired, The London Times (UK), Sydney Morning Express (AU), Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Option, Alternative Press, Mass High Tech, Psychotronic, Morph's Outpost, many others.

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