Most of our days here at Studiobanks are spent using our skill sets for the creation of digital platforms and campaigns. However, to kickoff 2013, we decided to take a break and exercise our sandwich creation skills in order to do something we enjoy just as much: giving back to the community.

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For our fifth annual Domain of Cheer trademark pending, we flipped a few switches and turned up the music in order to deliver some much deserved light relief.

Visit holiday.studiobanks.com to watch our studio come alive with the holiday spirit and then bookmark it, because you'll want to come back for more, we promise.

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The book I read for my book report was The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. It was very interesting. The character I liked best was… OK, just kidding. But this post is a book report of sorts. I just got done reading The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and it’s awesome for a couple of reasons.

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Over the past year here at Studiobanks we’ve been extremely fortunate to continue our growth by winning tons of new projects and bringing on new clients. With every new project (and even with our existing retainer projects), we put in a tremendous amount of work not just in delivering a quality end product, but building and fostering client relationships and managing expectations.

Throughout the course of my career I’ve been extremely fortunate to work with some amazing clients to create successful creative work. I’ve also worked on some not-so great projects that were ultimately failures. I’ve found that successful projects generally have several characteristics in common and that those same factors were missing from the failed projects. I continue to feel more and more strongly that in order to produce quality, successful work most of these elements (if not all) should be present.

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This just in: print is dead. Ok, well perhaps that’s an overstatement, but print advertising is not only declining it’s reached an important new milestone. For the first time ever, companies are spending more money on online advertising than they are on print.

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Occupy-NorthPole.com is now live and fighting the good fight against cookie inequality! Learn more about the movement on their site and then check ‘em out on Facebook and stay up to date about all the news by following the movement on Twitter:

@ChandlerWobble: Head spokes-elf for the ONP movement.

@Occupy_NP: The official twitter account of the ONP movement.

@Red_NoseRudolph: Santa’s 9th reindeer and proud member of the Reindeer Union for over 72 years.

@Sam_theSnowman: Lead reporter covering the movement for the North Pole News Network.

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I like G+ and I cannot lie! You other bloggers can’t deny. When a social network shows up with an itty-bitty user base and some circles in your face you get sprung…from Facebook.

Oh my god, Becky. The hype about G+ is so big. Everyone’s all like ‘It’s the Facebook killer! No wait, it’s the Twitter killer! It’s super cool! No wait, it’s lame and it’s going to fail.’ Wrong! G+ is the best blog aggregator you aren’t using. Let’s rewind, shall we, to early July. Once the initial euphoria of having scored a G+ invite wore off, I realized my Stream was not unlike the crowd at Spinal Tap’s Jazz Odyssey concert. After a few days of little to no new content, I did something I’d never done before: I circled a stranger.

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I got my first cellphone in 2001. It was a Nokia with a large 1.5 × 1 inch screen that could reveal the entire spectrum of colors as long as those colors were black or white. With the increased functionality (not to mention screen size) of today’s cellphones and tablets, one of the biggest changes for designers has been figuring out how to tailor their designs for mobile platforms and devices. Here at Studiobanks, we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of mobile-based projects that we’re working on. Mobile websites and apps used to be an afterthought—now they’re more important than ever.

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