Clique Studios, Chicago, IL: ThinkChicago

Company: Clique Studios, Chicago, IL
Company Description: Clique Studios is award-winning digital agency started in 2003, conducting business globally and based in Chicago.
Nomination Category: Web Site Categories - Specialty
Nomination Sub Category: Best Home/Welcome Page

Nomination Title: ThinkChicago

1. How often is this site updated?

We built the site in Wordpress so the Mayor's office can update content whenever necessary.

2. Briefly describe this site's objectives and how it has met those objectives (up to 125 words):

The sites objective is to attract top performing STEM students from the best universities to apply for ThinkChicago. ThinkChicago is an event that immerses students in Chicago’s fast-growing tech community, and gives entry to Lollapalooza with the goal of showcasing Chicago as a career starting point.

To promote this event as an annual destination, we focused on an engaging design geared toward prospective attendees. The site features large imagery and content highlighting event benefits, speakers and past success.

We worked closely with the Mayor’s Office and World Business Chicago to create a site that builds pre-event buzz and ultimately attracts students to launch their career in Chicago. While applications are in progress, Mayor Emanuel leveraged the site to officially announce ThinkChicago at SxSW.

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Clique Studios is a full-service digital agency built for long-term relationships. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the team at World Business Chicago called upon us to lead branding and design efforts for ThinkChicago and we jumped at the opportunity to partake in this city-wide project. We built a fully responsive, interactive home for the annual summit.