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

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

We’ve been working with the UK team at Prime Focus for the last 5 months developing the digital side of their global brand consolidation launch. We’ve just put the first phase live at www.primefocusworld.com.

We built in Drupal, utilising buckets of Flash and AJAX. There are gigs of slick video content to browse featuring everything from VFX for Quantum of Solace, Dragonball: Evolutions, Harry Potter and Superman Returns to Kasabian & U2 pop promos and car ads. If you’re short on time check out the house showreel, it sums up their prolific output succinctly.

At a packed Odeon in Leicester Square last night, founder Namit Malhotra announced the transformation of its global facilities into a single global company under a new Prime Focus brand. This includes the consolidation of Prime Focus London, blue and Machine (UK), Post Logic and Frantic Films VFX (USA) and Prime Focus Group in India. This enables the Prime Focus ‘global digital pipeline’ by seamlessly interconnecting the 15 Prime Focus offices around the world.

London was chosen for the first launch event, the rebrand will continue to be unveiled through launch events in Los Angeles and Mumbai. Should be noted that certain members of the Catch team are still recovering from the one last night!

We continue to work with Prime Focus on a number of other equally exciting projects based around their new launch – watch this space.

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?

DeVirgo now have a great looking web presence that will help cement them as a progressive residential developer with great ideas on sustainability and residential design.

The site is built in Flash site and powered by the Catch CMS system, enabling the client to update text and graphics as they wish. Flash content managed
solutions is yet another string in our digital offering bow, expect to see more in the offering this year.

In fact, we are already working on the three individual development sites which will be launched in due course as the developments near completion. Expect to see more of interactive 3D floor plans and general Flash wizardry.

Take a look at www.devirgo.co.uk or read our case-study by clicking here.

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

Serial overachiever and all round nice guy Ross Williams heads up the uber-successful whitelabeldating.com, a multi-million pound business that provides dating software, payment processing and consultancy for some of the world’s most successful consumer media brands.

Ross approached Catch with a view to us branding him online. He’s a busy guy and wanted his own blog to share his experiences with those who’ll listen.

With a love of life in the fast-lane, sports cars and technology the site needed to be slick, remotely updateable and reflect who he was as a person, letting people know where he’s been as well as where he is heading (not to mention showing off the multitude of awards and accolades he has picked up along the way).

Using a mash-up of deep-linked Flash, Twitter, Wordpress and our own custom CMS modules this is one trick site, enabling Ross to update it via his phone from anywhere in the
world.

See it in action here www.rosswilliams.co.uk.

We’ve just launched bézierlondon.com. Bézier is a hi-spec, contemporary new studio, 1 & 2 bedroom development in trendy Shoreditch, just off Old Street roundabout. Our full Flash website combines city sophistication with up-to-the-minute urban style.

We had great fun with the text effects. Combining trick effects with XML, it runs off a modular system allowing ease of updating as the development progresses.We’ve also just put live www.tudorvale.co.uk, the developers own website. With design agency Me & Dave recently updating the Tudorvale brand, it was time to roll out a good looking site to to coincide with the launch of Bézier.

Do you know your motion-tweening from your shape-tweening? We have an on-site contract available for Flash banner ad animation for famous lingerie brand (no joke!). You’ll be working on their Christmas campaign, real high profile stuff. You need to be proactive in your approach to animation, be able to optimise to those tiny file sizes and have had experience of animation for banner ads. You’ll need a smidge of Actionscript too.We are not adverse to young graduates, don’t be shy! Important to note you’ll be required to work at our offices. Send CV and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com. Closing date 5/10/07.