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Welcome to the all-new 45royale!

Mar012008 / 12 comments

After several months and many caffeinated nights, we are excited to finally unveil the completely new 45royale web site! In addition to the updated look and feel, we've added many new elements and features that we feel make the site more reflective of who we are as a design firm. It was a challenge to balance our day-to-day client work with our desire to redesign the site, but in order to overhaul each page before the year 2036, we had to treat the new site design like a client project. We knew that if we didn't give our own site the same dedication and attention that we give our clients, the PSDs we created would remain on the shelf collecting dust, never to be made into beautiful coded pages. Fortunately all of us were able to focus, pull together as a team, and complete an amazing amount of work that turned our vision into reality. Read More

Matt's Blog

The Story of Stuff

Apr212008 / 0 comments

Even though this video has been around for a while, I found myself watching it again for the fifth time and thought I'd share it with anyone who hasn't seen it. It's a story about the world's seemingly endless need for new product consumption and the Earth's inability to keep up (what with it's finite resources and all). The movie is narrated by Annie Leonard and she does a great job of breaking down each part of the production cycle. The video covers a wide range of topics from how… Read More

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Adam's Blog

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview

Mar202008 / 0 comments

Even though we didn't attend that many panels at this year's SXSW, what we did see was actually pretty awesome. One that I was particularly interested in was the Expression Engine 2.0 Sneak Peak hosted by the fine folks at Ellis Labs. After spending a lot of time under ExpressionEngine's hood during the 45royale redesign, it was apparent that there was still some room for improvement. I am a big ExpressionEngine fan, but since we earn a living doing front-end design… Read More

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Boris' Blog

Something Something Darkside

Mar062008 / 0 comments

For the past two days I have been surfing the googles trying to figure out what the heck I'm going to do while R2D2 and C-3PO are in Austin for SXSW. As if things couldn't get any more boring, my Tie Fighter is in the shop so I'll be stuck here at the office answering the phone that doesn't ring. Luckily I just stumbled across one of my favorite Family Guy episodes and I wanted to pass it along in case you're trying to kill 45 minutes as well. I'm going to try and turn that into an hour by… Read More

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