Graphic Designers

Chicago is rich in graphic designers, and Arc customarily teams with a graphic designer in the course of website development. Sometimes clients rely on an existing relationship with a graphic designer, and Arc comes on board to tackle the technical challenges. Other times, we team with one of our preferred partners to pitch a project jointly.

Arc works closely with graphic designers to make optimum use of the many Joomla templates and other website templates now available, wherever possible.

Home of the Internet Browser

It's important to remember that the computer in general, and the Internet in particular, were not graphic experiences before certain innovations that came out of the Chicago area. Marc Andreesen invented the first Internet browser -- Mosaic -- at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) (UIUC). (UIUC has a venerable computer science program.) Marc, of course, went on to found Netscape, and, with the birth of the Internet browser, the Internet boom was off and running.

Art and Graphic Design Education

Chicago is home to a diverse array of schools for art and graphic design:

• School of the Art Institute
• Columbia College
• Flashpoint Academy
• . . . and others . . .

Computer Gaming

Computer games is a Chicago industry:

• Midway Games
• other

Northwestern University is a major center of research related to gaming.

Consumer Marketing and Advertising

Chicago has traditionally been a center for consumer marketing. Advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett were instrumental in guiding the 20th century consumer experience, and now there interactive arms are guiding consumer experience in the 21st century.

For more information . . .

Just a few of the many available lists of graphic designers in the Chicago area are at FreelanceDesigners and TopDesignFirms.