History

With a history that dates to the birth of digital design, the Veer team has long contributed to the industry. It is composed of former members of the marketing, product, and design teams responsible for direct-marketing catalogs and web sites for Getty Images, EyeWire, and Adobe Systems. Immediately before joining Veer, team members were engaged in strategy, marketing, and creative for Getty Images, EyeWire, PhotoDisc, Digital Vision, Zefa, elektraVision, Image Source, Artville, ImageBank, and Stone. The group also pioneered the first multi-brand, cross-product e-commerce web site, often modeled by others in the industry. By 2000, this original web site was ranked by Alexa as the world’s most popular professional visual content web site.

The credentials of this group show a long history of technological innovation, product development, web and direct-marketing expertise, including such significant firsts as:

• First to direct-market digital visual content products, 1985
• First to create and sell individual PostScript fonts on diskette, 1987
• First to provide stock photography on CD, 1988
• First to develop CD unlocking technology, 1989
• First one-stop e-commerce web site for visual content and software, 1997

Reuniting all the key players from a decade-long award-winning business history, the team has harnessed its extensive expertise, creative energy, and unsurpassed customer focus to create Veer. Highlights of company achievements include:

• Veer launches veer.com, 2002
• Veer introduces Flont™ type preview tool, 2002
• Veer introduces Image Zoom, 2002
• Veer acquires Jukebox™ Type Foundry, 2003
• Veer acquires Solus™ Images, 2004
• Veer introduces Fancy™ deluxe royalty-free photography, 2005
• Veer introduces Shuttleboard™ interactive lightbox, 2005
• Veer introduces Somos™ Hispanic Images, 2006

The team has reunited all the key players from a decade-long award-winning business history to harness its extensive expertise, creative energy, and unsurpassed customer focus into a new visual content company, Veer.