Client: Power Construction Company
Website: powerconstruction.net

Power Construction Company is a privately owned general contractor operating in the Chicagoland area for more than 75 years. It has been involved in major corporate, developer, healthcare and university market projects, and offers preconstruction planning, construction management, and design/build services.

Its website redesign focuses on the needs of recruitment in this competitive industry. Extensive video interviews help express Power's unique working environment, values, and brand experience. The modernized website is search engine friendly, easy to maintain, and has received accolades throughout the industry.

Website: blakladerusa.com, blaklader-workwear.ca

This well-known European brand workwear company recently introduced its clothing line to the US and Canadian markets. It provides uniquely engineered workwear, specifically designed for the trades and construction environment. The parent brand website focused on European market, but the product line for the North American audience needed to provide greater background on the brand, product history, and product design. Neoteric Design designed US and Canadian websites that introduce, engage, inform, highlight, and detail, through video and flash, the specific design details of the workwear line.

The websites feature an online catalog, high quality video content, and interactive Flash product pages that highlight design details. The catalog permits reviews and user feedback, and the site offers sales team support materials, news, and a retail store finder for the consumer audience.

Client: Ali Phillips
Website: engagingeventsbyali.com
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Ali Phillips, a professional wedding planner in Chicago, offers creative, sophisticated, and elegant ideas through her company Engaging Events by Ali.

Ali engaged us to redesign her site, which features a business blog, testimonials, trends, and rich, stylized professional photography. Drop by, and find out what's hot in Chicago weddings!

Client: Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company
Website: Intranet

We completed a usability study on a proposed navigation redesign for this company's intranet. During our testing, we interviewed various employees to learn about their expectations, needs, and concerns regarding their intranet.

We digitally recorded the test sessions. Key sound bites were included in our report of findings, which highlighted both successes and areas of improvement, as well as offering possible easy-to-implement solutions.

The outcome? We learned that a new way of thinking about this company's products and services worked well and was well received, and that some of the navigation labels weren't as clear as they could be. Our findings helped to support this company's redesign efforts, and will save it hundreds of hours of productivity time.

Client: Players Sports Group
Website: playerssports.net

Players Sports Group is one of the best run sport and social clubs in Chicago. It offers hundreds of sports leagues as well as socal events and winter trips.

We designed and developed the Players Sports Group custom content managed website using PHP and MySQL. It features on the fly league management, e-commerce integration, and to-the-team inventory management.

Client: Frasca Hospitality Group
Website: kinziechophouse.com
Case Study: Download (PDF 106KB)

Kinzie Chophouse is a River North destination restaurant, well known for its steaks, seafood, salads, and wine list. Its previous website was cutting edge when built, incorporating opentable.com online reservations and newsletter signups, but started to lag behind trends in design, communication, and management.

Susan Frasca's art direction urged us to "show, not tell," the story of the restaurant. Integrated Flash movies, fun quotes, and big titles make for quick scanning and impressive photo displays. Content is easy to maintain using Adobe Contribute. And sidebar elements make for easy online reservations and innovative Blackberry or mobile phone text messaging.

Client: Smart Museum of Art
Website: adaptation.uchicago.edu

The Smart Museum of Art presented Adaptation: Video Installations, an exhibition exploring the use of adaptation in contemporary art. Curated by Stephanie Smith, the exhibtion features four leading artists: Guy Ben-Ner, Arturo Herrera, Catherine Sullivan, and Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation.

A unique online catalog was conceived by Smart staff, branded by our friends at JNL Graphic Design, and designed/developed by Neoteric Design. It features Flash managed typography, video exhibition clips, artist statements and biographies, essays and discussions. An easy-to-use content management system makes adding fresh content and moderating discussions easy.

Client: Museum of Contemporary Photography
Website: mocp.org
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We’re proud to have launched the redesigned Museum of Contemporary Photography website. The site features extensive archives from the museum’s permanent collection and Midwest Photographers Project, as well as current and past exhibitions. The calendar of events and lectures will help keep folks on schedule, and the integrated e-commerce shop makes purchasing an artist’s archival print, or past museum publication, easy. We worked with the Museum’s staff through the ground-up redesign of the site. It features an extensive content management system, innovative information architecture, and a new visual design featuring the Museum’s brand identity, developed by JNL Design.

Client: Hyde Park Art Center
Website: hydeparkart.org
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The Hyde Park Art Center is the oldest alternative contemporary art venue in Chicago. It presents innovative and challenging work in all forms of media. It offers exhibitions, installations, artist/curator talks, discussions and events to explore untraditional topics in a fun environment.

We worked with the Center’s staff through the ground-up redesign of the site. It features an extensive content management system, innovative information architecture, and a new visual design featuring the Center’s new brand developed by jnl design.

Client: Friends of the Chicago River
Website: bridgehousemuseum.com

The Bridgehouse Museum allows visitors to explore the historic bridge tower at the corner of Michigan Avenue while learning about the history of the Chicago River and its impact on the development of the city.

Because of its layout, the museum content was inaccessible to the disabled. We designed the website and museum media center to feature the stories on each floor. Staff maintain the site through an easy-to-use content management system.

Client: The Merchandise Mart
Website: symposiumc6.com
Case Study: Download (PDF 97KB)

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?

We’re thrilled to have developed this site, produced by the Merchandise Mart, conceived and developed by Burns Sowder Art Advisory, and branded by our friends at jnl graphic design. 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.

Client: Redmoon Theater
Website: redmoon.org
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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.

Client: Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce
Website: wickerparkbucktown.com

This neighborhood chamber offers networking events, lunch programs, cooperative marketing, and promotional opportunities to area businesses.

The Chamber chose Neoteric to redesign their site, with the intent of expressing the uniqueness of the Wicker Park Bucktown neighborhood -- something quirky, fun, independent, and fresh.

We worked with their existing identity materials to produce a site that features an event calendar, membership directory, and neighborhood summer festival details. The site features an easy-to-use content management system that lets staff maintain the site themselves.

Client: River North Association
Website: rivernorthassociation.com
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The RNA is a member-driven organization of businesses and residents, a diverse and vibrant cross-section of Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

The association engaged Neoteric Design to redesign their website. It now features monthly event highlights, a searchable membership directory, streaming video interviews and concise, engaging messaging.

Client: Friends of the Chicago River
Website: chicagoriver.org

Friends of the Chicago River works to improve the health of the Chicago River for the benefit of people and wildlife. They promote the river as a beautiful, continuous, accessible corridor of open space in Metropolitan Chicago.

The previous website had grown to an unfathomable size--whole portions of the site had been abandoned. The redesigned site embodies an information architecture designed to grow, sensibly, over the next few years. It features in-page Flash components, key information about the organization and its events, and a fresh visual design.

Client: DePaul University
Website: cec.depaul.edu
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The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center is an entrepreneurship support organization at DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. Through its consulting services and educational programming, the CEC gives entrepreneurs practical and thoughtful guidance to build their businesses.

We developed the Center’s custom content managed website using Movable Type. It features articles on entrepreneurship, an events calendar, and a visual design coehesive with the Center’s printed collateral developed by Luzazul Design.

Client: Civitas Schools
Website: civitasschools.org

Civitas Schools is a non-profit educational management organization (EMO) founded in 2004 that operates charter schools in Chicago. It produces some of the highest-achieving students in Chicago.

Based on branding and design direction provided by our friends at Good Studio, we’ve developed these sites and incorporated an easy-to-use content management system using Movable Type. The sites feature Flash stories, key information for parents and students, and a visual design that carries through to the Schools’ printed collateral.

Client: University of Illinois at Chicago
Website: www.blendedworkshop.uic.edu/

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.

Client: The University of Chicago
Website: uchicago.edu/depts/maph/
Case Study: Download (PDF 99KB)

Working with our friends at MAPH, we helped to launch the redesigned department website for this unique one year Master of Arts program.

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 easy to use, update and maintain.