TITLE BluFire Model Registry CLIENT Original content created by Sapphire Press. LOCATION Massachusetts DESCRIPTION BluFire showcases the best fashion and commercial print models from model agencies around the world. It also maintains the authoritative ratings of model agency Web sites. AUDIENCE Casting directors, art directors, photographers. REQUIREMENTS Images of faces must set a new standard of image quality for Web publishing; however, these images must also download quickly. No graphical element must compete with the images; the images ARE the graphics. All information must be presented in a format that conforms to model industry standards. COMMENT Elle magazine selected BluFire as one of its favorite Web sites two years in a row. BluFire is the first Web site to feature models from Paris, the first site to feature models from more than one continent, and the only site to scan exclusively from photographic prints and slides. (Other model Web sites scan from "comp" cards, which have images printed on paper.) PUBLISHED November, 1995