We’re looking for a talented and highly motivated Digital Project Manager.

You’ll be up for the challenge of taking ownership of multiple projects from pitch to sign-off. You’ll serve as the point of contact for clients and will be very much hands-on with exceptional client and project management skills.

Projects are wide and varied, from large-scale content managed websites to iPhone apps.

Whatever they may be, you’ll be creatively and strategically involved from concept through to completion. As an ideas person you’ll be using your digital experience, working collaboratively with creative, technical, and IA talent both in-house and with our partners to ensure that everything is delivered on time and on budget.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, check out job spec.

Download the full job spec here.

If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please tweet 140 characters that will make us pick up the phone and call you @catch_digital. Or if you must, send your CV and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

No agencies. Yes we use them, no you can’t be on our PSL. We’re not looking to expand it.

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.

Exciting news from our client iQ student accommodation: This month iQ will be shown on
BBC 1 running a feature on the importance of student accommodation in London – chosen location: the brand new iQ Hoxton!

Interviews were given by Ian Scott, Head of iQ Student accommodation and Arielle Azencot, a French student living at iQ who had moved in two days earlier, but was already loving her time there.

The episode will air to London viewers on ‘Inside Out’ at 7:30pm on Monday 24th October on BBC 1. Make sure you check it out!

We’re looking for a talented and highly motivated Junior Designer to join our team.

Creatively and strategically involved from concept through to completion, you’ll be an ideas-person with a talent for designing beautiful and functional websites and apps. You’ll add your experience to the design team, working collaboratively with our client services, technical and IA teams, both in-house and with our partners.

With the help of the team, the work you’ll produce will wow our clients, help increase their ROI, win plaudits around the world and bag us a whole clutch of industry awards. No pressure.

You can read the job spec here. If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please send your CV, portfolio and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

We’re proud to say that we’ve been awarded Recommended Agency status for the 2nd year in a row.

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.

We’re please to publically announce that we’ll be working closely with pan-disability charity Scope over the coming months on a range of digital projects. That’s all we can say for now. Watch this space.

Have a look at our spectacular new website for iQ Student Accommodation. In the week after launch iQ had their highest number of bookings ever.

We’re all happy, as is Sophie Jackson, Marketing Manager at iQ:

“Catch have been a fantastic team to work with during the relaunch of our website. From initial project scoping through design and development stages through to going live, Catch have listened to our needs and quickly provided solutions to any problems we have encountered. The extension of the Drupal CMS system we now have is excellent. The training provided was thorough and the system is very easy to use which means we have full control of our website, which is very cost effective and easy to manage.”

If you are heading to Grosvenor House next week for the Revolution Awards, stop by our table and say hi. We’re sponsoring the awards this year, touting our expertise as a digital production partner to adland.

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

With all the non-stop excitement of Drupal website development keeping the client services team at Catch busier than ever, the decision was made to bolster the team at Archer Street Studios in Soho.

So, here I am – your new Senior Producer! I come from a background working in all things digital and have a passion for helping businesses to maximise their digital output. I’ve produced digital solutions and campaigns, both online and offline and been lucky enough to work on some great projects over the years for the likes of Berkeley Homes & Caterham Cars, sometimes even getting my hands dirty with coding or design where appropriate.

Having worked in the agencies for the bulk of my career (most recently as Head of Digital at a full service marketing agency), I’ve got bags of experience in producing high-traffic, framework driven websites for businesses with a focus in the new homes, financial, construction and automotive markets.

I look forward to working with you.

Jon Hume

Catch warmly welcomes Show Carriage Limited, a global specialist exhibition and live events logistics supplier.

Show Carriage merged its business with our existing client Charles Kendall earlier this year, so we’ll be designing and building their new website. The development work has already started and we’re looking forward to launching it soon!

Last week saw the launch of Amazing Spectacles over at the Prime Focus HQ on Dean Street. The building looked pretty amazing (geddit) daubed with specially crafted visuals from the AS team.

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

Amazing Spectacles make something magical appear from absolutely nothing (as they say: “a bit like Siegfried and Roy really, only without the fake tans and penchant for white tigers”), and we’ve just made their new website magically appear from our studio at www.amazingspectacles.com

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!

We’ve been successful in our pitch for how to best introduce parents to face painting (as you do) for Snazaroo, part of the global ColArt empire. The smashing idea we had for an iPhone application is now half way through production as we write this, edging its way ever close to the App store in time for Christmas.

Pretty soon it won’t only be designers and developers here at Catch that get to play with taking photos of colleagues and smudging paint all over them. Keep your eyes out (kids and adults) – we promise it to be a bundle of fun!

Established in 1989, Snazaroo has grown from its modest roots supplying fancy dress hire shops to become the world’s leading maker of water-based face and body paints. Today its UK factory creates and supplies hand-made face and body paints, along with hundreds of other products, to over 20 countries around the world. The company’s emphasis on quality and safety – all paints comply to the strictest toy and cosmetic regulations, are water-based, easy to apply and remove – has inspired huge brand loyalty over the years.

Having worked with Barworks for a while now, we thought it would be about time to summarise the work we’ve done for them.

Barworks own a number of  hipster venues around London including the Slaughtered Lamb, Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen and Electricity Showrooms. In the past 18 months we’ve produced over 8 very different sites for them, from Flash to CMS to whizzy jQuery.

We were one of the UKs first agencies to use Papervision for a commerical website, then had it nominated for an industry award and also featured in Esquire Magazine. We’ve even managed to grow their email database by some 1,500% and shown them the ways of sending out their own content managed monthly email newsletters.

At Catch we take care of our clients, and what better way than a night out to get to know the brand. In this case, we’re more than happy to this particular client’s core values out of office hours.

Our work with the brand doesnt stop there, we continue to work with Barworks on new an exciting projects, including their very own craft brewery, the Camden Town Brewery.

With all of these new clients of ours, we thought it would be a good idea to add a few more members to the Catch team. As of Monday the 25th of October we’re happy to welcome two new people – Said and Anna – to each take a seat in our office at Archer Street Studios in Soho.

Said has a BA in software engineering from The University of Westminster, and comes to us from another well known London agency. Not only is this guy a very talented backend-developer, but he also holds a proficiency in Drupal – Catch’s favourite CMS. Said is now eager to learn more about frontend programming, and will be joining our development team.

Anna comes from a background in project management for system development, marketing and PR. Having previously studied at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm (where she comes from), she received her MA degree in interactive media from LCC, University of the Arts London, this September. Anna is joining us an intern on the Client Services team (she is also nominated for a BIMA at present… wow).

Welcome!

Working in a fast-moving industry with ever-changing technologies, we feel it’s most important to stay on top of what’s going on outside of our office. It isn’t always enough to read blogs(!), check the latest tweets and read the hottest news, but to also attend an event every now and then in order to gain useful insights and updates from specialists in various digital fields.

So this is what we just did. Catch attended The Future of Web Apps Conference held in London on the 4-6 October. Three whole days of interesting talks by experts! Safe to say, this iPhone app we’re working on for Snazaroo (to be launched before Christmas), will not be our last.

Are you a Web Developer with Drupal experience interested in a job that pays you to work with like-minded technical types on a vast range of web projects? Good! Read on…

You’ll have 4+ years’ solid (post-graduation) professional experience in building commercial sites and have enthusiasm and an aptitude for learning more. Perhaps you are a Middleweight Developer in a larger London digital agency with your eye on taking the next step up to lead a team?

Read the full job spec PDF by clicking here.

If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please tweet 140 characters that will make us pick up the phone and call you @catch_digital. Or if you must, send your CV and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

Recruitment agencies take note: if we’re not already working with you, we’re not interested.

London now has it’s very own craft beer, brewed in Camden Town by the newly launched Camden Town Brewery.

We’re all big fans of beer here at Catch. So you can imagine we’re over the moon to be chosen as their digital partner.

Camden Town Brewery lager, wheat beer and pale ales are now being stocked in various Barworks venues, and having had several taste tests, we can confirm they do brew a very fine pint.

The magic happens in a state of the art brewery underneath the arches moments away from Camden Town Market.

They are trying hard to prove that craft beer isn’t just for people with exceedingly long beards and beer guts. Working with some of the hottest creative teams in New York, the brand is looking sharp and we’re looking forward to cementing them as masters of their craft online in the coming months.

You can sign up to be alerted via email when their full site is going live at their temporary home www.camdentownbrewery.com.

Cheers!

Our website for The Diner has been shortlisted for the 2010 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.

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

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!