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February 14, 2006
ART OF DISCOVERY NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE New York, NY -- Discovery Editions, LLC, today launched its new Web site www.discoveryeditions.com which offers for sale Perfect Recreations(tm) of some of the most important maps and natural history works of art that were produced during the Age of Discovery. The site allows visitors to tour galleries of the different works of art and to review materials, including video, about the rich history and provenance behind them. The individual works are viewable in incredible detail using cutting-edge technology. Visitors can then purchase the works, individually or in thematic collections, and can even choose amongst a variety of top-quality framing options. All orders for the site are shipped using Federal Express. The site, which uses state-of-the-art AJAX presentation technology, was created by New York-based Mediapolis, inc. Discovery Editions was founded in 2005 with the mission to perfectly re-create the most beautiful and important examples of the Art of Discovery -- the maps and natural history works of art that were produced during the Age of Discovery and to offer them at affordable prices that are often less than one percent of the cost of the rare originals. Having developed proprietary techniques that use cutting edge technologies to capture and print the sharpest and highest resolution reproductions available anywhere, Discovery Editions perfectly re-creates color and texture nuances -- even the sense of luminosity. Archival watercolor pigments are applied to the highest quality archival papers to deliver legacy quality Perfect Recreations(tm) of the most beautiful art in history. Mediapolis (www.mediapolis.com ) creates technology that simplifies the production of high profile, high performance Web sites. Since 1994, Mediapolis has created custom software solutions to build more than 220 sites for clients including Sony Music, The New York Times, Johnson & Johnson and Volvo Cars.
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