Materials Research Laboratory
As part of an overall branding effort, the Materials Research Laboratory needed a website at the same caliber as the research they produced. The most important parameter was that it could be maintained in-house. A “system“ vs. a completed website was delivered: Dreamweaver templates, stylesheets, a set of mastheads along with documented Photoshop source files, and sample pages. This look is now being carried into other products which will be showcased on this page in the near future.
Copy Editor: Julia Stackler
Logo Design: Robb Springfield
Photography: Jason Lindsey

Incoming Student Flash Ecard
This was a Flash-based ecard sent to incoming freshmen to the University of Illinois to showcase the services that Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) has to offer and where to go for further information. This card is part of an overall branding effort aimed at appealing to incoming freshmen. The look which was established as a result was also applied to printed pieces as well, such as a mailer and even an 8”X8” display.
Copy Editor: Erica Rothmier

UIC Pharmacy Website
The University of Chicago needed a new website. No Problem. Oh yeah, there are 14 units under it. No Sweat. They all want to be unique. HEY! No big deal… right? But they still need to be unified. Er, um… Oh, one more tiny detail; they all need to tie into an existing 3rd party proprietary backend. This was the challenge posed by the UIC Pharmacy department. Before any design or coding was started, client interviews and careful planning was done. The end result was a site that met and exceeded all of these parameters
Copy Editor: Erica Rothmier

UIUC Public Affairs
The new homepage for Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The look and feel was inspired by print pieces by designer Deb Bolga. The challenge was to translate the look of her printed work, which is done in a beautiful, artist manner, into something equally as beautiful yet functional for the web. The result was a website that is easy to navigate, well laid out, while having the strong visual tie-in to it’s printed inspiration.
Copy Editor: Melissa Edwards

Nathan Gunn Fan Site
Did you know that we have an internationally renowned opera star right here in Champaign Illinois? You should, and that is what this site is for. Nathan needed a site where his fans could find out the latest news, see where he was going to perform, and buy his recordings. His agent in New York would need to be able to update Nathan's site with no knowledge of HTML. A web-based backend was created that his agent could update, then the site’s content would be generated via a database.
Backend Programming: David Glenn

Family Life Christian Counseling Website
There is a time and place for high-end, slick, overwhelmingly flashy design.  You know; small type printed on paper culled from virgin Cardasian Bamboo plant, with an accompanying website driven by a custom built CMS dynamically built on the fly in Flash.  This was not one of those projects.  Family Life Christian Counseling is a small company built on trust, peace of mind, and serenity.  When discussing their brand, it needed to be calming and inviting; a look that would invoke feelings of a trusted one-on-one conversation with a close friend.  Relying on tranquil blues, peaceful imagery, and most importantly a nod the founder’s strong Christian beliefs; a logo and website was created.  The result is a website that is not only informative, but acts as a trust building tool.

Dawson Logistics Presentation
Dawson Logistics offers a unique service – emergency pharmaceutical rescue, and the world needs to know about it.  So what do you do to get word out?  Show it off at an industry conference of course!  They had the ideas, they had the product… now they just needed a kick’n presentation.  Initially, the client requested a PowerPoint presentation.  However, an interview indicated they wanted transitions and animations beyond what a PowerPoint presentation could deliver.  In addition it had to easily transition to the web.  The result? A Flash-based presentation that delivered their message just as efficiently as they deliver their service.

ILIR flash Based Marketing Piece
The Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations program at the University of Illinois is a true standout among it’s peers.  Did you know the average starting salary of the program is $66,126, with a 96% placement rating after graduation? Students looking for a graduate program need to know these facts, and that is what this piece does.  Playing on the analogy of a journey, this flash-based piece educates prospective students about the program in a very elegant, sophisticated manner. 
Copy Editor: Erica Rothmier

UIQ
It’s the game that’s sweeping the nation!!  Well, at least the University of Illinois Campus.  A marketing piece that would tell the world about all the great things that have come out of the University was needed.  As a parameter, it had to appeal to current as well as incoming students.  Lets be honest though; how boring is yet one more brochure that lays out facts and figures? Enter UIQ.  Pulling questions out of a database UIQ delivers it’s marketing message in the form of a web-based trivia game.  Instead if the “normal” collegiate look, an interface was painted that looked like an old beat-up midway game.  UIQ was then packaged along with other fun quirky pieces and delivered in a site that uses a video the University of Illinois Quad mounted on a wall. 
Copy Editor: Royce Matson
Backend Programming: OJC

Unversity of Chicago E-Newsletter
Believe it or not, one of the most challenging things there is to design is the basic, run of the mill, plain’ol boring e-newsletter.  Not only does it have to deliver its message in an efficient and effective visual manner, it has to do it without falling apart every email program out there.  Take this project for example.  The School of Pharmacy at the University of Chicago needed a template that they could use to create an e-newsletter.  Taking a trip back in time to 1998, a template was created in basic HTML, which utilized lightweight graphics.  The result was a newsletter that not only held itself together, but still managed to sport an extremely good design.