This past year The Royal Order was chosen to redesign the Kohler Engines website. TRO has been a long-time partner with Kohler brands and their Engines brand is no exception. It was TRO who designed the last version of kohlerengines.com back in 2004. This time around a lot has changed. Kohler Engines has grown and [...]
The Intern Part Two
With only fifty five minutes left as an employee of the Royal Order, I feel it appropriate to leave some parting thoughts.
I’ve not posted here in some time — the Tutor/Mentor Connection Project took over my workdays with increasing determination, right up until the end. Although the site development is still up in the air, I’m quite proud of how the project has turned out. The site looks great, if I say so myself, and is certainly the most stylish, navigable, and unambiguous nonprofit site I’ve seen throughout this process. What an upgrade from the current version of tutormentorconnection.org! It’s fantastic that (eventually) my work will actually be used by real people to satisfy their needs. That the site aims to improve the lives of impoverished children only adds another level of reward to this project.
Ballhawks Bobbleheads
Mike Diedrich was one of the founding members of the Royal Order, and still a close friend and colleague who now works full time producing TV spots for Ogilvy — our benevolent landlord. A long time Cub fan, Mike decided to make a documentary about the guys that hang out on Waveland Avenue wearing baseball gloves, hoping to catch any balls that make it out of the park. In the nearly six years that he has been working on this beast, Kyle and I have contributed when time allowed — Kyle with writing, shooting and editing, me with titles, web design and art direction. It’s an awe-inspiring labor of love, and should be amazing to finally see it on the big screen.