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The Importance of Web-based Casual Games

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Lately, all the buzz has been around social media.

Facebook and Twitter can work well for some companies, but all the hype is overshadowing the fact that social media should be part of a larger digital marketing strategy. Including a fun, well designed online game in that strategy is often overlooked by companies, yet it provides an excellent opportunity to interact with consumers and highlight products. You’re probably thinking, "Oh well you only care about games because you’re a 20-something guy who’s never grown up and would play any game just because it exists." Well, you might be right but there’s some pretty solid data to show otherwise.

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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!

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!

(Press Release) CarolinaNightlife.com Gets Face Lift

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Our party-promoting client, Carolina Nightlife serves the Carolinas as the premier online resource guide to the local nightlife scene. Thousands of loyal followers regularly browse the site to view upcoming events and peruse the plethora of entertaining photo albums.

But just like trendy dance moves, websites date over time, so our team recently revamped the 4-year-old version of the site. We combined top design and development practices with select features to maximize both usability and profitability of the site.

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Newsletter Design featured on Campaign Monitor Gallery

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Campaign Monitor, an online email service provider that serves as the backbone of our client newsletter system, has just featured our AAF Charlotte newsletter design in their design gallery. While it’s more likely that they are more impressed with Wray Ward's Sunbrella ad, they still had some nice things to say about the newsletter:

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Will Jardine Elected to AIGA Charlotte Board of Directors

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AIGA Charlotte's Board is made up entirely of volunteers passionate designers that dedicate their free time to making the Chapter amazing and our local design community vibrant.

Studiobanks is proud to announce that our own Will Jardine was just elected to the AIGA Charlotte Board of Directors. He will hold the office of Internet Coordinator for the 2009-2010 term. Will joins Banks Wilson, the Board's Communication Director, as the second Studiobanks team member on the Board.

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Congratulations Chris & Erica Goodwin!

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This past weekend, on May 9th, our good friend and co-worker Chris and his beautiful bride, Erica, were wed at the Rosa Lee Manor in Pilot Mountain, NC (just north of Winston Salem). The ceremony was truly wonderful and we would like to extend our best wishes and congratulations to the happy couple. Enjoy Hawaii!

More photos of the wedding can be seen here.

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(Project Update) ARHE Launch

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There's call for celebration over here at the Studio, ARHENETWORK.com launched at 2:05 today! Congratulations Jason & the ARHE Network, we are honored and proud to be apart of this.

ARHE Launches

On April 15, 1947 at approximately 2:05 pm opera singer Everett McCooey finished singing the national anthem. A crowd of 25,623 (mostly black) packed into Ebbets Field for Opening Day to see the Brooklyn Dodgers take on the Boston Braves. Then, Jack Roosevelt Robinson took the field as the starting first baseman and history was changed forever.

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 2:05 pm history will change again.

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Boom!

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Designers from across the state came out this past weekend to celebrate the Carolina's most creative design at AIGA Charlotte's BOOM! Gala and Exhibition. The BOOM! competition had over 440 entries of which our judges selected 96 amazing winners. All winning work was displayed at the Gala for attendees to view as they mixed and mingled with a cross-Carolinas crowd. Attendees consistently remarked on the incredibly high caliber of work that was displayed.

Studiobanks is proud to announce that we had 5 pieces selected in the show!

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