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Make a Wish for 2010

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The New Year is a special occasion that welcomes new opportunity for peace, success and health. To close out 2009 and ring in the New Year, our team partnered with Parker Poe, one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, to create a festive, inspiring interactive holiday card for its attorneys and clients.

Join Studiobanks in hoping for the best in the coming year by helping Parker Poe reach 2010 wishes for 2010. Visit the winter-themed site to choose a snowflake and submit your New Year's wishes. Once you're finished be sure to view other wishes by clicking the different snowflakes.

Blessings to you and yours in 2010!

Play our 2009 Holiday Game!

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Happy Holidays from all your friends at Studiobanks.

We have created another holiday game to celebrate the season. Enjoy!

Wow!
As if 2009 hasn't been a tough enough year, you have now found your self at the worst holiday party ever. On the way in you passed some people talking about how the party was filled with really annoying people and you quickly realize this is the last place you want to be. You also overheard them talk about another really cool holiday party being thrown by Studiobanks.
The objective of the game is to find a way to escape and get to the Studiobanks holiday party.

2009 Holiday Soiree!

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We hope everyone enjoyed (and recovered nicely) from our holiday party! A crowd of almost 125 guests gathered at Dilworth Billiards for a festive evening of mixing and mingling with our clients, colleagues, friends and family. Cheers to everyone who came out to celebrate the holidays with our team!

A special thank you to new client La Paz for the delicious holiday eats and to clients for donating a wonderful collection of door prizes, including two lunch passes from AAF Charlotte, a $50 gift card from Asana Activewear, $70 in gift cards from Blynk Organic, First Night Charlotte tickets and Ruth’s Chris coupons from Charlotte Center City Partners, a t-shirt and toboggan hat from Dilworth Billiards, four tickets to Discovery Place, a fleece blanket and backpack from Muzak, two tickets to Opera Carolina's La Bohème, a 60-minute massage from Urbana Cityspa & Teabar and a $50 gift card from Varji & Varji!

If you missed the party, enjoy the photos. Merry Christmas and Happy 2010!

(Project Update) Architecture Eye Candy

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We had the pleasure of partnering with the Stodghill family to create a new website for PMA Architecture, an award-winning firm founded thirty years ago in Virginia. PMA offers urban community design, preservation, interior design and planning with key staff trained and accredited in LEED compliance and Green Design. We created a website that showcases their beautiful work in a unique visual experience - enjoy!

Concrete, Art & Wine

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If you’re out and about in Plaza Midwood this Saturday we encourage you to stop by Twenty-Two, a new art gallery and wine shop that was designed by our client, Reaching Quiet. You’ve seen Reaching Quiet’s award-winning concrete work at places like Nikko’s, Andrew Blair’s and even our studio!

Twenty-Two should be a pretty sweet spot featuring monthly rotations of artwork by local, national and international artists, as well as a varied selection of wines, beer, sake and coffee drinks.

Twenty-Two: Grand Opening Party
1500 Central Avenue Map
Saturday, November 7 at 7:00 pm
Inaugural art show Emergence featuring artists Mike Watson & Nick Bloomberg

GUTS!

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Studiobanks recently competed in GUTS, a pumpkin carving competition that benefited the Levine Children’s Hospital. Hawse Design, a local branding agency, organized the event and recruited design firms, ad agencies and architects to compete for pumpkin carving supremacy while raising money for the kids.

Banks’ carving skills earned him 2nd place in the individual category while Team Studiobanks, comprised of Keeley, Will, Mike and Banks, took 4th place in the team category. After the judges selected their winners the competition transformed into a silent auction that raised even more money for the Levine Children’s Hospital. Enjoy our photos from the event!

Best Wishes to Keeley & Megan!

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This Halloween weekend, a member of the Studiobanks family married a member of Muzak, our long-time client! Keeley and Megan were celebrated with a beautiful ceremony and a fun-filled, Irish-themed reception. We enjoyed tunes by an Irish folk band and a delicious mishmash of Irish foods and drinks. Emerald green, shamrocks and beautiful Irish blessings placed on tables brought the festive Irish theme together nicely. This was my favorite:

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

Congratulations to the Carrigans - we hope you enjoy your trip to Ireland!

(Project Update) 2020 Vision Plan Community Workshop Report

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Studiobanks has had the great opportunity to partner with wonderful clients such as Charlotte Center City Partners who truly have their finger on the pulse of our great city. It was refreshing to participate in the 2020 Vision planning workshop last week and see so many members of the community proactively participate and contribute to the continued growth of Charlotte. CCCP did a fantastic job of utilizing social media to make this workshop a success.

More than 400 people gathered on Wednesday, October 21 in person and through a live webcast to share their vision for Charlotte’s 2020 Center City Vision Plan.

It was the first public step in the year-long process to create a year-year blueprint for the growth and development in the study area of Uptown, South End and and other close-in neighborhoods just beyond the I-277 loop.

Charlotte Center City Partners, in collaboration with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, is working with MIG, INC. to create the public process and the final plan. 300 attended the workshop at the Charlotte Convention Center. Another 100 joined in on-line for a “virtual” workshop on CLT Blog.

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(Project Update) Can I get an Amen!

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In the spirit of giving, earlier this fall we donated our services to create a new website for Banks’ family church, Central Steele Creek Presbyterian. The church, founded in 1793, has a rich history of serving its community through missions, worship and meaningful year-round programs.

We provided the ministry with a useful online tool to enhance and grow its connectivity with existing and new church members. The website features a look into the church's history, a calendar of events, volunteer opportunities and much more. We hope it supports Central Steele Creek's mission to continue making a difference!

Muzak's Brainery

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This year celebrates Muzak's 75th anniversary in business. They decided to hold a conference to have a focused discussion on the art, science and sound of music branding. The discussion explored the transformation of music, the music industry, and music branding—from legal to cultural considerations, media consumption to retail behavior.

From a designer's perspective, it was very eye opening to realize how important music relates to the target audience and how it really helps to reinforce the message, style, and emotions created within a brand. I had never really put stock in what types of music the target audience of my brand would listen to or even create. But looking back, I now realize that most of the information I was receiving about a target audience was directly influenced by the types of music that is both listened to and created within different demographics. Music is a unifying theme in all circles and can even break bounds and connect very different groups of people by evoking emotion and creating memories.

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