Web Design and Development
Maya del Sol is a popular Nuevo Latin restaurant in Oak Park, Illinois. This design formed the basis for their website from opening day in 2007 until they took it in-house four years later.
We are extremely pleased with the work that Joe Hoy has done for us.
He has helped us create a brand image for our restaurant and has gone far
beyond by helping us with his creativity and guiding us with his expertise.
We would highly recommend him.
– Todd Gunderson
Director of Operations, Maya del Sol
This website promotes the annual dance festival for high school students and educators in Illinois. Uses Flash and streaming video.
Creating a website for the Illinois High School Dance Festival has
enabled high school dancers in Illinois to meet,
network and learn from each other. The website Joe Hoy made for us helps bring us all together!
– Lucy Vurusic Riner
Chairperson, Illinois High School Dance Festival
This website is the online component of a radio documentary series broadcast on NPR which deals with the aftermath of the civil and guerilla wars in Central America. Each episode is available in streaming format along with a bibliography of books and websites. The client, producer Maria Martin, is based in Texas and Guatemala.
Uses Flash to stream audio in a user-friendly controller, and uses php for site architecture.
Joe Hoy did a wonderful job for this project: incorporating audio,
photographs, and great design to showcase a comprehensive project on
Central America. In addition to his substantial talents as a web designer
and developer, he is also a great person to work with–taking initiative
when it's needed and being flexible and collaborative when called for.
He's both an artist and a technologist.
– Maria E. Martin
Director, GraciasVida Center for Media
Chris is a Chicago music scene legend, playing keyboards for Sonia Dada, Chevere, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, and more bands and studio credits than we can list. His own site reconnects him with his old fans and promotes his new band Jambon. The site for Jambon uses streaming audio and video to sell band merchandise and inform fans about upcoming shows.
Joe Hoy did a great job with my websites. He has a very intuitive sense of
design. We've just scratched the surface of what he visualizes for the site.
He possesses many of the attributes I look for in musicians I collaborate
with. He's an artist, but he's easy to work with, and he's fast.
He just gets it!
– Chris "Hambone" Cameron
This site offers a streaming video archive of Public Perspective, a television interview program focusing on politics and business in Chicago and its suburbs.
The toy design and development firm in Evanston, Illinois, is a division of Kindermusik, International. Their site needed to be playful yet reflect the serious approach they take to their work.
The visual metaphor is that of the old Viewmaster projector, with the client's projects cycling through the frame. (Flash and PHP.)
Thanks for all your work on our site. It is fabulous!
You have done a masterful job of listening and translating
our thoughts into action.
– Bob Harper
President, KiDesign, Inc.
Surface Deep is a working studio owned and operated by women artists and located in the Arts District of Oak Park, Illinois.
The Surface Deep website has created a beautiful and visible vehicle for
our artwork. The viewer is able to look close-up without leaving home.
– Sandy Campbell
Co-owner, Surface Deep Studio
Portfolio site for a communications design firm specializing in print media.
My website is easy to navigate and the work looks great. Joe Hoy was very accommodating and creative.
– Janice Hovey
Owner, Boldface Inc.
John McEvoy is the author of three award-winning mysteries set in the world of thoroughbred horse racing. McEvoy, former Midwest editor and senior correspondent for 'Daily Racing Form,' is also the author of five non-fiction books on horse racing.
With little useful input from me, my website became–as a result of Joe Hoy's
creativity and professionalism–an invaluable marketing tool for my books.
– John McEvoy
This is where I started: I designed and maintained the website for an art museum for three years. These links go to a snapshot of the site when I left in 2000; the design served the museum so well that it was up for six years before redesign (a very long lifespan in Internet years.)
