When groups of creative people spend countless hours together wild things happen.  As our company continues to grow, our brand is pacing alongside.  The natural progression is a new look for our website.  One goal is to make the site easier to navigate while providing quick access to our most requested features. 

We’d love to share the process with you.  We are done planning and designing, which means we are building the beta site.  If you’d like a sneak peak at the behind-the-scenes, surf on over to our development site: www.s99c.com and take a look.

Watch this space for announcements as we get closer to launch.

Busy day in the studio.  Stellamara radio on Last.fm.

Early Friday morning, before any bustle.  Here’s the view from my desk.

-Christopher

Amy spent some time this week rejuvenating the signage at our Western Massachusetts website design headquarters.  Included in the mix are some fabulous new window decals that are subtle but highly visible.  We’re totally digging this upgrade.

Huh-wha?!? Yes, that’s right…we’ve removed the recycling bins and there’s no more separating trash here at 99. But how can that be?

Ok…hold on…there’s got to be a good explanation, right? Yes, indeed. You see, we’ve stopped recycling simply because we’ve run out of things to recycle. How is that possible?

Over the past year, we’ve worked hard to become a paperless office…with great success. With little or no exception, all business is now done with electronic documentation. From proposals to compositions to invoices, we’ve made the complete switch…everything is paperless.

Without paper to recycle, the only remaining recyclables around the studio were our water bottles. Switch! We’re now using stainless steel refillable bottles, filled with filtered tap. No more plastic.

After these eco-friendly mods stuck we discovered that our recycle bins sat empty…really empty. So we stopped using them. We’ve stopped recycling because we’ve stopped using the things that needed to be recycled. We’d like you to think about doing that too.

Got a green story of your own?  We’d love to hear about it.  Drop us a note.

Today in the Studio we’re listening to some fabulous down tempo chillout on Radio IO Chill.

On right now, one of Chris and Amy’s favorites, Center of the Sun by Conjure One.