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November 12, 2009

KohlerEngines.com Redesign

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 expanded its product line to other market segments. Kohler sought to reach those markets and educate them about their advanced engineering, the superior quality of their engines and the variety of engines they provide for a large percentage of the consumer and professional grade equipment on the market. So building consumer awareness and loyalty was crucial, but so was providing an accessible and prominent amount of support for Kohler Engines owners looking for resources.
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October 06, 2009

TRO on Facebook

Login to your Facebook profile and search Pages for “The Royal Order of Experience Design.” Here you’ll be able to chat with everyone at TRO, share findings, and poke us.

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October 06, 2009

TRO on Twitter

http://twitter.com/theroyalorder

The Royal Order has officially joined the thousands of people addicted to Twitter. So follow our page, and in less than 140 characters you’ll learn about the latest RO news.

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September 16, 2009

New Intern

As of yesterday RO has put me in charge of this blog. Here’s some information about myself: I graduated in May from Arizona State University with a degree in Visual Communication Design. 7 friends and I are putting up sketch comedy shows in Pilsen every tuesday(I don’t know the name of the bar yet), and I’m probably going to freeze to death in December.

It’s my task to finish the T / MC website. All of the groundwork has been laid out thanks to Jake; I just have to design within the system.

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August 28, 2009

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.
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August 28, 2009

Client Side CMS

The technology is clearly ahead of its time. But a new client side CMS named firerift has my attention.

At first glance, Fire Rift is impressive. The CMS has set out to make life easier for developers by only managing your content via the CMS. No more hacking of your html and css to fit the limitations of your CMS’s templating system (often archaic and completely different across various other CMS’s.) With Fire Rift, you cut and code your psd and let Fire Rift take care of the content via css class names or javascript.
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August 10, 2009

Lies for Leo

When my son Leo was born, my then neighbor – artist Mike Lash – decided to create a series of paintings based on some of the not-quite-facts that adults tell children to help them make sense out of the universe. He called the series ‘Lies for Leo’, and asked me to design the accompanying book. Mike’s style is intentionally child-like and so I decided to adopt the board-book format, similar to the ones I read to Leo before bed… over… and… over. Here are some photos from the current gallery exhibition in Hong Kong.

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August 07, 2009

Optimizing Destination Kohler

With marketing budgets tightening and full-scale site redesigns becoming somewhat less frequent, we are seeing a growing number of clients that wish to make changes opting for optimization. Whether the site was originally developed by The Royal Order or not, we are being tasked with modifying the experience based on changing business requirements, user feedback or performance metrics. Such was the case with Destination Kohler.

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August 07, 2009

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.

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July 09, 2009

T/MC Project on Mozilla Service Week

Mozilla Service Week is a website that aims to bring together those who can donate technical, internet-based services and those who need help online. (We also happen to have designed it.) They’ve just put up our redesign of T/MC as a featured project – check it out.

On a related note, we’re still looking for a partner to donate time to develop this project. Any takers?

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