We are fortunate to work with a broad variety of clients, in a wide range of industries and fields. Our projects range from site redesigns to content management systems; project management to design research; usability testing to branding and identity work. Feel free to look around for examples of our latest partnerships.

UIC's SUSI

The Study of the United States Institute for Secondary Educators (SUSI) is an intensive, six-week Institute intended for teachers and scholars who are devoted to learning about and increasing their understanding of U.S. society and culture.

We worked with our friends at the department of External Education at UIC to design and develop a new site that would highlight, feature, and manage logistics for students both new and alumni to the program. By providing sets of Dreamweaver templates, the UIC staff can manage updates to the site independently, building new sections to support past students and updating calendars for the program in years to come.

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 a series of school websites 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: The University of Chicago
uchicago.edu/depts/maph/
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The University of Chicago offers a unique one-year Master of Arts program.

Working with our friends at MAPH, we helped to launch the redesigned department website. 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 for staff to to use, update and maintain.

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.

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h3. 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, HTML email newsletters, news updates, and a new visual design.

Friends of the Chicago River's educational program provides for scientific experimentation, water quality monitoring, historical investigation, art projects and ecological restoration.

This supporting website allows Chicago area schools to submit water and habitat data from various collection points along the river. As part of Friends education program, area middle and high schools can adopt sections of the river which they monitor and restore on an annual basis. Member schools can log in, submit data, and download aggregate data from other schools, as well as update their school profile pages.

This Ruby on Rails web application is under constant development, and features integrated Google Maps and data downloads for use in desktop spreadsheet applications.

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artchicago.com
nextartfair.com

For 15 years, Art Chicago has been one of the leading international contemporary art fairs in the world. NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, debuted as the perfect complement to Art Chicago, offering focused curatorial visions of some of the most important developments in contemporary art.

We've worked with our friends at Art Chicago for several years. For this project, we provided a new visual design for Art Chicago, providing ready-to-implement templates for their internal IT team to work with. We developed a custom Movable Type implementation for NEXT that allows for ongoing content updates over the course of the show.

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.

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 HTML email newsletters, monthly event highlights, a searchable membership directory, streaming video interviews and concise, engaging messaging.

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.

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.

mocp.org
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The MoCP strives to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as expressions of human thought, imagination, and creativity.

We've worked to redesign and rebrand the MoCP website for several years. The site features extensive archives from the museum’s permanent collection and Midwest Photographers Project, a searchable database of their entire collection, 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. The site features an extensive content management system, innovative information architecture, and an identity branding system developed by our friends at JNL Design.

adaptation.uchicago.edu

The Smart Museum of Art presents 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.

tvweek.com

TelevisionWeek is the comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving television business.

The constantly changing website provides in-depth coverage of television news, events, and programming, as well as details on new television technology such as broadband, on demand, internet audio, video, and HDTV. With extensive news coverage, discussion spaces, HTML email newsletters, RSS feeds, blogs, podcasts, and image galleries, the tvweek.com website is an exemplar of the use of new web technologies for news publications.

seaportcapital.com

Seaport Capital is an established venture capital firm that offers private equity funds for media, telecommunication, technology and business service companies.

Its website services three kind of customers: organizations seeking venture capital, managers seeking funds in which to invest, and investment bankers who buy and sell businesses. With regularly updated news columns for both Seaport as well as its investment companies, corporate profiles, and portfolio of work, site site serves to keep investors and industry leaders up to date and in the know.

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.

The website features multiple sport landing pages, promotions, HTML Email marketing, and playoff schedules. It is supported by a custom built Ruby on Rails registration system that features on-the-fly league management, e-commerce integration, and to-the-team inventory management. Round this off with email messaging equeues, T-Shirt ordering systems, and a sophisticated login and team management interface -- it's a constantly growing and evolving business solution.

Working in Ruby on Rails allows our team to make design and interfaces changes on the fly, working with our friends at Elevated Rails, who help out with development on issues that require some heavy lifting.

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 pre-construction 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.

kinziechophouse.com
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Kinzie Chophouse is a River North destination restaurant, well known for its steaks, seafood, salads, and wine list.

Susan Frasca's art direction urged us to "show, not tell," the story of the restaurant. Integrated Flash movies, testimonials, and pull quotes 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.

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 nontraditional 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 our friends at JNL Design.

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.

www.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!

www.redmoon.org

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 site features a custom Wordpress CMS installation, Flickr, YouTube, and Podcast integration, and a "skinnable" website design that enables future artists and programmers to create an alternate look and feel.