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Atelier Nord wins a new project every month and wants it on the site the day it launches. They’re designers: they care about every crop, and they never want to file a ticket to move an image. You build the site once. Here’s their week after that.

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A week at the studio

Case study week

Two designers, a studio manager, and a launch on Thursday. Pick a day.

Monday, 09:40 · Sophie Marchand, Writer

A case study from blocks

Sophie starts the new case study from your template: a cover, then text, image pairs and a film, in the order she picks.

Models & blocks →

An example week. Every step is something the Studio does today.

Try it

One cover, every crop

A case study’s cover shows as a wide header, a card in the grid and a phone story. Mark what matters once, and every crop keeps it. Try it on the demo’s portrait.

A 1975 portrait of MAISON-3, a round orange robot head with an antenna, on a brown body, against a mustard circle; its name in a dark band along the bottom.

Click the picture to mark what crops must keep.

"focalPoint": { "x": 0.50, "y": 0.50 }

  • 21:9 A wide banner

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=21:9&w=800

  • 16:9 A card

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=16:9&w=800

  • 4:3 A listing

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=4:3&w=800

  • 9:16 A story

    …/resize/demo/mq1mrfrc-dkesa9o9?v=…&ar=9:16&w=800

The demo project’s picture, standing in for a case study’s cover. Moteur cuts each crop this way, and cuts again when the point moves.

What it takes

The parts that do the work

  • Blocks

    Case studies from your blocks

    You make the blocks once: a text, an image pair, a quote, a film. The studio arranges them for each project.

    • You choose the blocks
    • Required fields asked for before going live

  • Images

    A focal point per image

    Set once. Every crop and every width keep it, from thumbnails to sharp large screens.

    • Eight shapes
    • WebP and AVIF

  • Launch

    Live at the launch hour

    Pick a day and time on the entry. Moteur publishes what’s saved at that moment.

    • Taking offline works the same way
    • With reviews on, it waits for an approval first

    POST /projects/atelier-nord/schedules

    {
  "resourceType": "entry",
  "modelId": "project",
  "resourceId": "maison-boreal",
  "action": "publish",
  "scheduledAt": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z"
}

  • Addresses

    Renamed without broken links

    Rename a project or move a page, and Moteur adds a redirect from the old address for your site to follow.

    • Menus follow pages
    • The sitemap lists what’s live

Questions agencies ask

A reader asksCan the studio change the layout of a case study?

MoteurWithin the blocks you made, yes: they pick which blocks, in which order. A new kind of block is a change you make in the models.

A reader asksDo films play from Moteur?

MoteurOn Moteur Cloud, a plugin sends them to Mux, Vimeo, Cloudflare Stream or YouTube, and your site plays them from there. Moteur keeps a copy first.

A reader asksCan the studio show a project before it launches?

MoteurTo the people checking it, yes: your site can show drafts with a preview token. The public sees it when it goes live.

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