We’ve been hard at work on updates to our Snazaroo Facebook app, and at the same time been producing some Facebook content for them too. You can see the fruits of our labour by downloading the app, or visit their Facebook page here to see the new Facebook competition we’ve created for them, along with new product content.

Read more about the app via our case study here.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new Drupal website design and build for Steer Davies Gleave.

It’s been a pleasure to work with the SDG international marketing team over the past 8 months to scope, design and build this large international transport consultants’ website.

To read more about the project see our case study here, or go visit the site at www.steerdaviesgleave.com.

Established in 1832, Winsor & Newton manufacture the world’s finest art materials.

With a wide range of products on offer, even the most discerning artist needs a little help sometimes in choosing which medium is right for them.

So to help them make a decision, we’ve created the Winsor & Newton Mediums Finder. Starting by selecting the type of colour you are using and the effect you’d like to achieve and the tool refines the products available to help you create your masterpiece. When you’re done you can go purchase your chosen selection, or email, print and share your recommends.

The tool is available in 8 languages both as an app on their Facebook page and also on their website. Go check it out.

The Recommended Agency Register is an independent organisation that undertakes extensive research, in association with MRUK Research, to identify the most reliable and respected agencies across advertising, design, PR and digital specialists.

RAR surveyed a number of our key clients and asked them to score us in the following areas:

• Creativity and innovation
• Strategic thinking
• Account management
• Overall professionalism
• Value for money

Having scored highly we’ve been awarded Recommended Agency status for 2011/2012. Thanks to our clients for the kind words and a big thanks to all the staff for their hard work and dedication.

Agencies are rated across criteria including client service, creativity and value for money.

RAR’s system also measures key areas such as growth, gross profit and turnover per employee, key indicators in terms of profitability and efficiency.

Doing well in all the above, I am please to say we’ve snuck in at number 47 this year!

Grab next month’s edition of The Drum to see the list published in its entirety, or check it out now online.

Clearly I am no professional (as you can see from the quick studio shot), but the speed at which it allows you to create a half-decent 360 panorama is impressive.

Check out how the pros use it at www.photosynth.net.

As our advert says:
“We understand what it takes to partner with some of the UKs leading agencies that need specialist outsourced skills or additional resources. Adept at working on a white label basis, we bring our knowledge of open-source development and design skills for when you need a trusted partner that gets the job done.”

Hope to see you there, and if you’re a nominated agency (well done you), fingers crossed!

www.revolutionawards.com

They have listed some that are relatively new and foresee reaching mainstream attention next year, and others that are slightly older they think will finally hit the big time in 2011.

We’re excited to see that our favourite CMS Drupal features on this list. We’ve been banging on about the merits of Drupal for over 2 years now, and in that time have produced some of the UKs largest websites using this fantastic framework, including sites for Prime Focus, Wates, Charles Kendall, Pension Corporation – and not to mention 27 websites for Haymarket including the Campaign and Revolution awards websites.

You can read Mashable’s list here http://mashable.com/2011/01/03/websites-to-watch-in-2011/

If you’d like to know more about how we can use Drupal to help your business call me (Jonathan) on 0207 494 3554.

However, today I have found myself and my future wife featuring as the 4th most popular story on the website today extolling the virtues of Social Media – specifically announcing my recent engagement to the world via Twitter, in an interview I gave yesterday.

Read the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11986826

It all went by too quickly and the recovery from our 3 days of jamon eating and cerveza drinking is only just beginning!

Take a look on our Facebook page to see our photos.

For a full run down on the party, including photos, head on over to Prime Focus’ blog (or read our post below).

They may be a brand new offering, but the team behind this animation studio are anything but rookies. Between them, their directors have worked on everything from the music video of Moby’s “Why does my heart feel so bad” to the official London 2012 Olympic bid.

Backed by one of the largest Visual Entertainment Services Groups in the world, Prime Focus we’re certain that Amazing Spectacles will continue to produce great things for many years to come.

Whoop whoop!

Steer Davies Gleave is a consultancy working across the transport sector through-out the world. With over 350 of the industry’s most experienced transport consultants, they differentiate themselves through a strong commitment to innovation, the ability to provide flexible solutions and an engagement to corporate social responsibility. They have offices in 3 continents, and provide services that go beyond transport to meet the wider needs of the economy, our environment and society.

It’s a prestigious client and a great win for Catch, and we’re eager to deliver so best get cracking…

A recent post over on the Digital Buzz Blog has a great infographic on the “Meteoric Rise Of Twitter”. Slightly US centric, but nonetheless interesting in proving the credibility of the network which many wrote off as a fad as little as 12 months ago. The numbers don’t lie, with a reported 55 million tweets per day in April of this year Twitter is here to stay.

While it’s been widely reported by the naysayers that Twitter is nothing more than a vocal minority of users creating the majority of the tweets, these numbers work hard to prove that while this may have been the case once upon a time, it’s no longer par for the course.

We’ve been on the bandwagon from an early stage, and have been touting its brand enhancing potential to all our clients for over 18 months now. While initially it felt a bit like an uphill battle, our current roster sees all our clients agreeing with the potential that harnessing Twitter as a platform with which to have meaningful engagement with the public has.

If you would like to find out more about how we have help made Twitter work for them, please get in touch.

Rewarding both operators and designers for design excellence, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards now in its second year and totally independent, is the only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design.

With only one month to go, the winners of the Awards, including Best Restaurant and Best Bar, will be announced at a cutting-edge ceremony on 22nd June at Victoria House in Central London.

Through the use of new technologies (including RFID), the Awards event will not only reflect entrants’ creativity, but also offer a unique space where guests will be able to celebrate, relax and network with the leaders of the bar and restaurant design industries.

Attended by both the UK and world’s top hospitality designers, architects and operators, this will be one of the most exciting and innovative events in the hospitality and design calendar.

Fingers crossed. Read more here: www.restaurantandbardesignawards.com

JLA have a huge range of motivational speakers, after dinner speakers and presenters, of which we’re proud of Danny for being one.

Catch offers a comprehensive range of SEO services in order to help your business rank and convert through the use of conventional on/off page optimisation, and our slightly more off-piste tailored Social Media strategy.

Get in touch to see how we can help you get onto page 1 in Google.

Argyll has an extraordinary portfolio of historic buildings in Mayfair, Belgravia, St James’s and the City of London.

With some of the most stunning office space and meeting rooms available, head on over to www.argyllbusinesscentres.com to take a look.

Wates is one of the UK’s largest private construction companies. With revenues of £1bn+ the company is going from strength to strength.

In 2009 Wates Group was named Major Contractor of the Year by Building magazine, alongside Sustainability Contractor of the Year, Sustainability Champion of the Year and Paul Drechsler was named Chief Executive of the Year.

Now to go alongside their awards, they have a dynamic new web presence. Built using Drupal we’ve, just launched their main Group website www.wates.co.uk after months in our development pipeline.

Working with our partner Ferrier Pearce’s design, the site is built to emphasise Wates’ industry leading activities through the use of video, project stories, slideshows and authored thought leadership pieces. There is a huge variety of content stored within the CMS system we developed, all editable by Wates themselves and accessible to you the user via our unique “live search” feature.

Commenting on the new site, Wates Head of Communications, Belinda Murray said of the Catch and Ferrier Pearce team: “I just wanted to let them know how much we appreciated their marvellous help, support, enthusiasm, whip cracking and spectacular creativity in producing our beautiful new website. It was a huge task and they were great partners to work with.”

www.wates.co.uk

Established in 1945, Charles Kendall is a complete, end-to-end supply chain management group. With decades of specialist experience, their eight individual businesses includes Charles Kendall Freight, one of the world’s leading freighting companies. The other group businesses are travel, event management, procurement, consultancy, packing, marine and aviation.

A private, family owned business, they’re trusted with contracts valued in the millions by international businesses and organisations including the World Bank, as well as the governments of the UK, US, Oman amongst other countries worldwide.

We’re looking forward to working on positioning them as a global force to be reckoned with in 2010.