11.   A third friend, Chad Carter, who played the chief technology consultant, works as a programmer for Comvision.com, a Web design firm.

12.   Acer America and Hewlett-Packard both hired design firms to create their new home PC lines, the Aspire and the Pavilion, respectively.

13.   After graduation, she looked for a job with a design firms specializing in hotels.

14.   After conducting a few phone interviews, I invited Brooks Garcia of Fine Gardens, an Atlanta garden design firm, for an on-site consultation.

15.   Business was slack, so she called Judith Wendell of Sacred Currents, a feng shui design firm, for advice.

16.   But the low cost of the hardware and software makes it relatively easy for an established design firm to get into the business.

17.   Camp Fire also hired Landor Associates, a branding consultancy and strategic design firm based in San Francisco, to develop a new name and logo.

18.   Craig Kanarick, the chief scientist at Razorfish, a Web design firm, sees the translucent colors as an attempt to demystify technology.

19.   Cybertown is an online world created by MultiMedia Magic, a Web-site design firm.

20.   DayStar Digital, a Hall County computer design firm, has been granted the fourth national license to build and sell clones of Apple Macintosh computers.