Colophon

“Colophon” comes from the Greek “κολοφων,” meaning ‘a summit,’ ‘top,’ ‘finishing.’ It is a description of the details and methods behind a publication, often found on the last few pages of a book… or in the footer of a website, like this one.

Identity

The logo was created by Jason Pickleman at jnl graphic design, a studio that specializes in the creation of graphic ephemera of unique cultural significance. The website header was modeled after Pickleman’s printed collateral for this project. The typefaces include Frutiger, Bauer Bodoni, and Leviathan.

Typography

The website headers are set in Georgia, Arial narrow, and Arial Black — web safe fonts that mimic the typographic treatments in the logo. The website body copy was set in Verdana, a web safe typeface designed for legibility at small point sizes. Special consideration was given to ensure this site is accessible: all non-imaged copy can be resized according to users’ needs, even on IE 6.

Site Content

Nathan Leo Braulick of Burns Sowder Arts Advisory handled image research, copy writing, and editing for the site.

Photography

All images are copyrighted to the respective conference participants.

Website design and development

Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. created the secure registration application, based on provided web templates.

Neoteric Design designed, developed, and produced this site. Neoteric creates websites with a focus on customer needs, site goals, ease of use and engaging design.

Technical

We used Adobe Photoshop and TextMate to design and hand-code this site. Thank you, TextMate!

The site is maintained using a customized installation of WordPress. A wide range of useful plugins are in use, including Sandbox, a semantically sound, skinnable, structural XHTML WordPress theme; WP Highslide, which handles the biography image interactions; and Search Everything, an extension to WordPress’ search capabilities. The site is authored using structural XHTML, and complies with the 1.0 transitional web standards as set by the W3C.

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the design of this site, please email info@neotericdesign.com.