The 42nd Estate

After eight years of being a one stop web shop, we’ve decided to dissolve The 42nd Estate and are shutting down on December 31, 2016.

We did not start The 42nd Estate with the intent to end up here but everyone we’ve worked with through the past eight years has made the journey itself worthwhile and more meaningful than the final destination. Thank you so very much for your support.

The words of the author who inspired our name, Douglas Adams, are much more eloquent than we can be in this moment:

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

“So long, and thanks for all the fish!”,

Adam, Josh, Eddie, John & Justin | The 42nd Estate

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