Our friends over at Twin have launched their second issue of their bi-annual style “mook” (magazine/book). The second issue is available to buy online and features the likes of Tracey Emin, Amy Sackville and Christina Kruse.

The Twin website has also evolved and continues to have the regular posts on fashion, art and music. Posts include “Lust for Life”,  “Girl Crush #1: Zooey Deschanel” and “X-Ray Vision” (image featured above).

Respected online creative ezine It’s Nice That have an interview with editor Becky Smith which you can read here.

Head over to www.twinfactory.co.uk and check it all out!

We’ve just launched our new website for the original epitome of Shoreditch cool, Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. With a hefty CMS system behind it allowing not only website updates from the Hoxton crew themselves, but also a user management system for promoters to be able to log in and manage their nights.

Utilising Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook Connect the site encourages the community at large to get involved!

See you there for a pint or two soon.

www.hoxtonsquarebar.com

We’ve just launched Twin Magazine’s new website, you can now get your hands on their first Issue, check out regular updates on their superb blog and watch some behind the scenes videos of the making of the book.

Jump over to www.twinfactory.co.uk to have a look.

The Catch team is heading east to Shoreditch tonight to celebrate the launch of the Magazine at a glitzy party, surprisingly Pete’s even brought some new shoes for the occasion.

Update: Since launch Twin has been featured on Vogue, Itsnicethat and Style.com to name a few.

Here at Catch we are busily creating a fantastic digital world for Twin. Twin is a fashion and arts bi-annual book, created lovingly by Becky Smith the co-founder of Lula magazine. It includes some very exciting contributions from the likes of Ryan McGinley and Miranda July. The book itself is a beautiful collection of writing and photography and well worth checking out!

We’re really happy to be working with the team at Twin to create an online presence for them, that brings all the creativity and excitement from the book online. Along with promoting the book the site will also be a one stop shop for fashion, arts and culture with regular updates from a range of intriguing contributors.

Keep your eyes peeled, as website launch will coincide with launch in early November.

EDIT: The site is now live at www.twinfactory.co.uk

We’ve been busy this month crafting a new web presence for the original Hoxton hipster hangout, the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. Many pretenders have come and gone since the bar opened in the 1990’s, but none have had the longevity brought about by their cutting edge evolving art, music and events programming policy.

Having expanded into the space left by the Lux cinema in recent years, Hoxton now comprises three separate bars, a restaurant and a gig venue. We’ll be putting the site live soon, so get your glad rags on and check back soon.

Like classic American food, beer on tap, large portions, milkshakes and great music with a welcoming atmosphere? Then it sounds like you’ll love The Diner which offers all this within eclectic surrounds at five venues throughout central London. The guys over at The Diner wanted to get all this across to potential customers via a spanking new website, and we’re proud to announce that this is now open for your viewing pleasure.

The Diner offers classic American dining with a modern twist. To get this feeling across we’ve used a cutting edge technology, Papervision 3D, to create a site that puts you in inside a virtual 3D Diner online.

The site takes visual elements that can be found at any of the Diners across London, along with a sample of the brilliant music you’ll hear there, via some Last.fm wizardry.

Take a look over at www.goodlifediner.com

Want to read more about how we created this site?

With several staffers individually twittering away in the office (@k0ng, @omcateer, @jonsm1th to shame but a few ) it was only a matter of time until we got around to promoting our own official company Twitter page @catch_digital.

Recent tweets include video footage of The Great Soho Monsoon of July 7th 2009, our Cannes winning clients, the state of the web mapped onto the Tokyo subway system and Michael Jackson’s arcade.

Come follow us @catch_digital

The entry deadline for the Campaign Photo Awards is drawing close. Judges for this award not only include the photographer Rankin but top agency names from the likes of Fallon, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Beattie McGuinness Bungay, Saatchi & Saatchi, Wieden + Kennedy, Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, TBWA and OgilvyOne.

The awards will the presented at a special dinner hosted by Campaign in September, with the work of all finalists and winners shown in a three day gallery exhibition. So if you’ve got a great shot that was taken in response to an advertising brief then this would be some great publicity.

To find out more and to enter visit www.campaignphotoawards.com.

Here at Catch we are looking forward to likes of Rankin using our bespoke online judging system we developed specially for the Haymarket Media Group. Catch designs, manages and hosts 19 awards websites for Haymarket. For the four most prestigious of these (Campaign BIG Awards, Media Week, Campaign Photo and PRWeek) we also provide a bespoke entry platform facilitating registration, entry upload, online judging and payment.

Photo: Sarah Lee via The Guardian

Augmented reality has arrived with a bang on the internet over the last year or so. Basically augmented reality can display computer generated graphics in real world environments on your computer screen. The latest developments have seen it implemented with the Papervision 3d library, which itself made a lot of Flash developers suitably excited when it first appeared. This means you can place 2d and 3d objects into a real enviroment captured via a webcam. Because of open source libraries, its webcam support and its mass use online Flash has become the easiest way to implement augmented reality apps.

We’ve had fireworks, monsters and helicopters, then things got a bit more interactive for example this groovy Xbox controller example and one that displays live information from twitter.

But recently its started to be picked up some digital agencies and developed into some cool stuff for brands. Three of the best examples are the Baseball collectors cards that double up as 3d baseball characters, the Toyota iQ site with its rolling car  and the mini catalogue that shows you a scaled 3d model of the car.

It is nice to see a new technology picked up by brands so quickly, and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of these at the moment. Topps for me is the best implementation so far, as its adding value to existing products. I hope one day that instead viewing all this on a computer screen it will be projected onto glasses so the user sees it all from their point of view as that would be very cool.

UPDATE: Someone has already done some augmented reality gaming with projection glasses. Check it out.

I’ve been busy moving our blog over to Wordpress.

Which means its now a lot easier to find posts using the sidebar on the left hand side. Also it’s possible to share a posts using the links at the bottom of each post, you can share them using Email,  Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and many other sites.

And of course using Wordpress means its a lot easier and quicker to administer the whole blog – expect more posts, more frequently!