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We're Hiring: Winter Internship Data Management Project
Update: this position has been filled. Thanks.
We're looking for a highly detail-oriented intern for a short term paid project this winter. Flexible times available (between 9-5 / M-F); approximately 30-40 hours total. You'll be managing data from multiple resources, fact checking, and collating data into a new system. A library science, liberal art, or similar background would be welcome. The right candidate may stay on for additional projects. We're a fast-moving, four-person design shop in the heart of Chicago's design district, River North.
Experience Requirements:
You must be local to Chicago, and have three verifiable references for past relevant work. Interested? Email us at info@neotericdesign.com.
This position is on location only: recruiters, off-shore firms, please hold your fire. That means don't call us. Thanks.
An Event Apart Conference in Chicago
In the short history of professionals working on the web, there have been many stars -- some, technical gurus who have created languages and specifications that we all use today; others, design wonks who have influenced not only the visual vocabulary of the web but media of all kinds. From them, a few manage to combine an understanding of both fields. And of these, a tiny handful have the skills, passion, and interest to share the latest of what they know to advance the professional field, to improve our craft.
I'm spending two days in Chicago at An Event Apart, listening to 10 of the best in the field, brainstorming, challenging, networking, and learning -- as much from the speakers as from each other. We're rethinking the 'given guidelines' of information architecture, pushing typographic boundaries on the web, brainstorming how to make the user's experience a better one, and re-crafting website writing to better communicate, convey, and brand. I'll blog the highlights of what I've picked up here over the next several weeks, so please stay tuned.
Come visit us at Showcase River North
On Tuesday, June 26th, from 4-7pm, we'll be at the River North's Holiday Inn Mart Plaza networking, cocktailing, and learning about the neighborhood's future plans from the new 42nd Alderman Brandan Reilly and Art Chicago Director Tony Karman. Get the details at the River North website, and come on down!
We're Hiring:Full-time Website Designer
Update: This position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!
Job Description
You'll be working in a fast-moving, three-person design shop in the heart of Chicago's design district, River North. Expect to handle multiple projects throughout the day, practice web design from sketches and research through design, development, and deployment. You'll manage multiple client relationships. We use an agile, iterative style of design and development; expect rapid revisions and design rounds from pen-and-ink sketches to completed web pages.
Web Design
Your design skills, from Photoshop to HTML markup, will be most important. Our house design style is business oriented, modern, and fresh. We're always pushing our skills and limits: we look forward to working with someone like-minded. You must have a clear understanding of typography on the web. You know the difference between an x-height and a cap height, and a pixel from a pica.
xHTML/CSS Design & Production
The web designer will be marking down layered PSD mockups into web standard xHTML/CSS documents. All markup is hand crafted: we don't use Dreamweaver in our shop, so you must read HTML, and possibly prefer to do so.
Content Wrangling
You'll be working with client documents, evaluating, organizing, and designing page content as needed. You'll be maintaining and revising existing client sites as well.
Experience Requirements
A strong liberal arts background is required: language skills are essential. Experience with hand coded HTML is required. You'll be marking up and designing in CSS--a clear understanding of the CSS box model is required, as is a desire to push your CSS skills.
Strong familiarity with Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash is required. We're mostly a Macintosh shop; you should be comfortable on either platform. You must provide three examples of your own web design work, three references, pay history, and a link to your portfolio site. Interested? Email us at info@neotericdesign.com
Note this position is on location only: contractors, recruiters, hold your fire.
Art Fair Site Launched for Merchandise Mart's Art Chicago
What's NEXT for contemporary art? The art world will pull out all the stops when it descends upon Chicago's Merchandise Mart for the annual Art Chicago/Artropolis event. This year announces the debut of NEXT, a curated art show designed to deliver what's fresh at the forefront of contemporary art.
This internationally recognized art fair will showcase the what's emergent in the art world and promises to turn the conventional booth experience upside down with informal cafes and social spaces for the audience, artist, and curator to interact.
It was our privilege to develop a web brand based on a provided identity. Bold yet minimal, the site features an easy to use content management system, and offers exhibitor services, downloadable applications, a calendar, and future news feed.
Redmoon Theater Website Redesign Launched
Working with the extraordinarily creative people at Redmoon, we've launched the redesigned website for Redmoon Theater, Chicago's most innovative and consistently engaging theatrical company.
Redmoon creates spectacles that transform streets, stages, and architectural landmarks into places of public celebration -- in a world that encourages ever greater isolation and individual focus, Redmoon Theater makes theatrical events in public spaces that challenge the boundaries that sit between people and that inspire a shared experience of our common humanity.
The redesigned website features archives of Redmoon's productions, updates on ways to get involved or buy tickets, a "behind the scenes" blog, and integrated photographic, video, and audio content. Congratulations to everyone at Redmoon! It's been an amazing process.
Bonus: can you find the hidden switch that throws the site from evening to dawn? Let us know!
Pan-Latin Restaurant Website Launched
Continuing to work with Susan Frasca's indefatigable team at Frasca Hospitality Group, we're launched the redesigned website for River North's favorite pan-Latin restaurant. As the place "where Latin America meets Chicago neighborhoods," this restaurant embodies the ideal combination of authentic home-style Latin flavors, an intimate and welcoming interior, and the largest Rum and Tequila selection in the country.
The website features lush photography, downloadable menus, and an easy-to-use content management system. Felicitaciones, Frasca Hospitality Group!
Iconic Chicago Steakhouse Website Redesign Launched
Working with Susan Frasca's team at Frasca Hospitality Group, we've launched the redesigned website for an iconic River North Steakhouse. Our goal was to take Susan's vision to heart: create a website that shows, rather than tells, the experience of the Chophouse. Flash movies pan over the restaurant interiors, and guests can easily make reservations online through OpenTable. We've incorporated useful new technology, too, with easy address and phone information text-messaged to mobile phones or handheld devices.
Congratulations to the Frasca Hospitality Group!
Welcome aboard, Sonia!
Sonia Yoon has accepted a position with Neoteric Design this March! We have often completed website redesign projects, only to have our clients say, "I wish you could do for our print marketing what you've done for our website." We're happy to announce that now we will: Sonia will be helping us to expand our design reach both on the Internet and in print. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. She continues to expand her artistic practice through her pursuits in print and web design, visual arts and music. Outside of Neoteric Design, she also produces performances, collaborations, and multimedia events. Congratulations Sonia! Welcome!
Redesign for University of Illinois Chicago Workshop Launched
Working with the amazing team at External Education at UIC, we launched a site redesign for their recent workshop on blended learning and higher education.
The site features a fresh new look and feel that's appropriately modern for the leading researchers and practitioners of combined classroom and online learning programs. Featuring online registrations, workshop details, and travel information, the site is helping its attendees get oriented, sign up, plug in, and and get ready for the the three day workshop.
Merchandise Mart Art Chicago Conference Website Launched
Take 33 highly accomplished international artists and actors, technologists and designers, scientists and entertainers. For three days, set them in Chicago's Pritzker Pavilion at the Millennium Park, with conference attendees who are themselves artists, cultural entrepreneurs, gallery owners and museum curators, designers and collectors.
Set them all with the this question: what is the impact of globalism on the art world? What are the challenges and new possibilities?
We're thrilled to have launched this conference site, produced by the Merchandise Mart, conceived and developed by Burns Sowder Art Advisory, and branded by our friends at jnl graphic design. The site features detailed speaker biographies and "popup" portfolio images, online registrations, a downloadable, printable, 'take away' schedule, and more. Neoteric's clear information design allows this site of hundreds of detailed portfolio images, biographies, and complicated three-day schedules to be clear, easy to use, and to point.
University of Chicago’s Master of Arts Program in the Humanities Launched
Working with our friends at MAPH -- Candace Vogler, Jay Schleusener, Joan Wellman, and especially webmaster Braden Grams -- we helped to launch the redesigned department website for this unique one year Master of Arts program at the University of Chicago.
With its diverse audience of prospective students, current students, and alumni, the website was charged with helping to convey the unique value of the program, while keeping current students "in the loop" with department events, deadlines, and activities.
Neoteric designed the visual look and feel of the site based on existing identity materials and University of Chicago photography. We developed key Dreamweaver template files for the site. Our work was based on modern site design principles, and was easy-to-use and easy to update and maintain. Braden Grams, in conjunction with MAPH's entire team, developed the site content and created the site pages through these templates.
Congratulations to everyone!
We’re hiring: entry level / intern graphic design position
Update: This position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!
Job Description
You'll be working in a fast moving, three-person design shop in the heart of Chicago's design district, River North. Expect to handle multiple projects throughout the day, and experience design from client proposals through research, mockups, production, and deployment.
Visual Design
You'll be responsible for design brainstorming and production. You'll be working to interpret our team's ideas into Photoshop mockups. You'll be working rapidly and iteratively, tuning elements and layouts in response to feedback both internal and from our clients. You must be proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. If interviewed, you'll be asked for an hour of your design time, demonstrating your creativity, Photoshop skills, and ability to think outside the box and on the clock.
Experience Requirements
A strong liberal arts background is required: language skills are essential. This is a design, not a markup position. Experience with hand-coded markup is a plus but not required. In addition to your portfolio, we'd like to see three examples of your design work on the web. Flash is a plus, but not required. We're mostly a Macintosh shop; you should be comfortable on that platform.
Interested? Drop an email to work@neotericdesign.com with your resume and links to your work.
Welcome aboard Redmoon Theater
We're thrilled to be working with the amazingly creative people at Redmoon theater. The redesigned website will feature archives of redmoon's performances, updates on ways to get involved or buy event tickets, a "behind the scenes" blog, video content... and much, much more.
