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Stone Design Corp is located in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was founded in 1984 by Andrew C.Stone. Our mission is to develop low cost, easy to use, 100% Macintosh OS X native applications that are a joy to use.

Stone Design develops a variety of productivity applications for Apple Inc.’s revolutionary operating system, Macintosh OS X. As early adopters of Mac OS X’s precursor “NeXTStep” from Steve Job\'s company NeXT Inc. in March 1989, Stone Design’s principals embraced the new object technology of the NeXT Computer. Stone Design was the first independent software house to ship a shrinkwrap product for the NeXT Computer with "TextArt™" in October, 1989.

TextArt was a type manipulation program which put the power of Display PostScript at your fingertips with knobs, dials and sliders. By 1990, TextArt had evolved into "Create®", a full blown drawing application. Version 1 of Create® shipped in October, 1990.

Simultaneously, Stone Design developed a friendly multimedia database manager, DataPhile™, which first shipped in April 1991. Create® and DataPhile quickly became very popular in the NeXT community.

Stone’s next product was 3DReality™.3DReality is a 3D modeling and rendering package which uses Quick RenderMan and the photorealistic rendering of RenderMan.

To round out its productivity suite, Stone Design enhanced and published Andreas Glocker’s "CheckSum™" in 1995.CheckSum is an easy to use check writer and personal finances application.

In late 1995, Stone Design made the transition from NEXTSTEP to OpenStep, the precursor to Mac OS X Server. One of the few developers which never turned away from this technology, Stone Design ported Create® to OpenStep and shipped Create® on Windows 95 and Windows NT, OpenStep for MACH, and OpenStep for SOLARIS.