MIPIM is the world’s premier real estate summit, this year it’s in swanky Cannes, France.

Invest Northamptonshire needed to advertise their return to MIPIM, after a successful turn there in 2008. They wanted an informative modern yet clean design with advanced functions such as a site search engine, as well as text content video was also going to a main distributor of information. A real joint effort, working with our two sister agencies Ferrier Pearce and First Image we produced a four minute promo video to support our website and a highlights video of Kevin McCloud’s construction lunch speech, which was filmed, edited and uploaded to the website within one hour of the speech.

We produced this clean, simple to follow, design that contained large amounts a information, judge for yourself at http://mipim.investnorthamptonshire.co.uk

Technologies used: xHTML, PHP, jQuery, GoogleMaps, Flash

The Revolution Awards have long been the definitive benchmark of digital marketing innovation and effectiveness in the UK, and this year they have been given a makeover, and a change of focus.

After more than a decade rewarding best-in-breed digital marketing and business initiatives Revolution have decided to add a focus on innovation. Gareth Jones, editor of the magazine says:

“As anyone in digital knows, what is cutting edge today will be passé tomorrow. With this in mind we recognise that those who consistently push the boundaries of marketing, those who venture into uncharted territory and those that do things that genuinely have never been done before are those that will succeed in the fragmenting media world.”

Catch designs and develops a range of Haymarket Media Group websites and entry processes, and this one is no exception. The deadline for entries is Friday of next week, so begin your entry process here www.revolutionawards.com, good luck!

Catch regularly designs and builds websites for a range of corporate clients including pension’s insurance company Lucida PLC, Hymans Robertson (for which one of our sites won Johnston Press a Professional Pensions Award) and business intelligence boutique Billiter Partners (for which we have recently rolled out a first-of-its-kind transactional due diligence reporting website).

We’ve recently being building and managing email sends for AXA’s Corporate Partnership Team.

These sends support a microsite we developed aimed at corporate advisers, specialist investment-only businesses and trustees, www.axacorporatepartnership.com.

Shunning traditional turkey this year, we are going to Valencia to celebrate Christmas in true Spanish style! So the office will be closed on Friday 12th Dec, and will reopen Monday 15th December.

While we are on the subject of celebration, we are 2 years old next month so we’d like to take this opportunity to say an extra special thanks to all of you in helping make the first part of our journey so enjoyable.

Catch has been enjoying a run of new business wins recently, and we’d like to welcome Executive Offices Group to our client roster. We’re looking forward to working with Emily and the team on a complete overhaul of their digital presence.

With 33 prestigious business addresses in prime locations throughout London, the UK and Paris, Executive Offices Group provides some of the most swish unbranded serviced offices and
suites, meeting and conferencing facilities and virtual offices available.

They dominate Mayfair and Belgravia with offices in Berkley Square, Pall Mall, Grosvenor Square and St James’ Square.

While we overhaul their current website you can learn more about them on their current website at www.executiveoffices.co.uk.

From time to time we get mentioned on various design blogs for pieces of work we have done, or awards we’ve had a hand in winning. But this is the first time we’ve been mentioned outright for our own website.

Apparently catchdigital.com has a “brave colourscheme”, and have been listed (rather oddly) on another digital agency’s weblog. It’s nice to be appreciated, thanks!

View the post here, some great designs are listed next to our own effort.

Our congratulations go to Samuel, part of our creative development team, who’s partner gave birth to a bouncing baby boy yesterday. No doubt Samuel is looking forward to teaching his new son the finer points of XHTML, and we are looking forward to an extra pair of helping hands around the office.

Congratulations!

We are currently having much fun beta testing video startup Joost.

“Privileged” is a word that comes to mind to be able to play a small part in shaping what is bound to revolutionise the web. It looks to be living up to the hype that currently surrounds it in Silicon Valley (and to some extent over here in London). Joost combines television watching and social networking into a single interface. This is what it looks like!It’s interesting to note that on the day entertainment giant Viacom Media said it will sue Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m), they signed a deal with Joost.