February 2007
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.
