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The Catch team continues to grow as we welcome Dan Ashdown onto the creative development team.
With a background in graphic design, product design and web application development he fits right in with the rest of the multi-skilled, multi-talented team.
Originating from Bristol, Dan is a keen sailor and will soon be undertaking his day skipper qualification. Looks like we’ve found a good way for undertaking jaunts across the channel.
The final touches are being put in place at our new Soho studio. As you can see from the photo above our new studio is very nearly ready (read: it’s a building site and this photo was taken pre-sweaty builder invasion).
Our new address (from w/c 12th Oct) is:
Studio 5 & 6
10-11 Archer Street
London
W1D 7AZ
Our main telephone number will remain the same, 0207 494 3554.
We look forward to welcoming you soon.
It has been a long time coming, but here is an edited version of our ukulele team building night.
You don’t have to play the Uke to work here, but it helps.
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
Hailing from Switzerland, Reto previously worked with Sunrise.ch on putting the digital structure in place enabling them to increase revenue and profit in the first quarter of 2009 by some 8.1% to £285m. Just as he is planning to do at Catch.
But forget this impressive feat, he was hired solely on the fact that he can touch his knee sliders to the floor when cornering on his Suzuki GSX-R 600 motorbike at 100mph.
He’s a fan of House and Electro Music (he is “European” after all). As it happens, he holds an impressive qualification in web design and development from Qantm here in the UK, so we’ll let him off such musical indiscretions.
He flogged his GSX-R 600 for 6e to buy his Ryanair flight to Stanstead last year. Probably for the best, not many bends here in Soho.
Willkommen Reto!
We have a new addition to our team, Matt Collins joined as a Web Technologist. Matt’s globetrotting experience includes being a creative-type at Dare, jetting off to Germany for Scholz and Volkmers Summer School, and even a stint at Momentum Worldwide not forgetting his time as a freelancer on some great projects. With a multimedia degree under his belt Matt has both creative and technical skills and is a self confessed geek.
Random fact: Matt is a qualified Kayaking instructor and used to spend his summer breaks teaching teenagers on lakes in the Brecon Beacons.
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.
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!
Much fuss has been made of Alan Yau’s stylish new restaurant Cha Cha Moons. Can the man do any wrong after Satsuma, Busaba Eathai, Hakkasan, Yauatcha and Sake no Hana?
After the sheer opulence of our Christmas bash at Yautcha (more 1000 year old egg congee anyone?), the foodie in me was keen to try it out, and having a small Chinese contingent at Catch HQ what better excuse to go check it out and see if it up to their high standards – that and it being just around the corner.
So was it any good?
Personally it was a bit too much like Wagamamas with a Gok Wang makeover for my liking.
Chic it is, Yautcha it aint, but then I am a fussy foodie. Give me Chinese Experience (lunch only) on Shaftesbury Avenue any day.
We’d like to welcome our latest recruit Rob to our development team. Not only is he backed by a 1st class Cybernetics degree he is also armed with a masters in Digital Cinema. This means he can build you a robot and bring it to life in one of his own sci-fi thrillers. For several years Rob has managed his own successful movie site and has used it as a vehicle to interview famous actors and directors. With a quirky personality and an avid fan of film and comic books we anticipate he will educate us all in the works of Sam Raimi in-between
building websites and programming databases.
This year has seen Catch winning several exciting pitches already, which means we need more people! Could you be one of them?
We’re proud of our client work. We’re just as proud of the team that makes it happen. Working at Catch’s HQ in Soho means working in a collaborative and creative environment with talented, inspirational people from different backgrounds other than web design and development including 3D and video post-production. We would love to be able to simply
say “Just show us that you live, breath and play with new technologies!”, but here is a realistic full job specification…
Download full job spec here.
Salary: circa 20k – 24k pa depending on expereince.
++ No recruitment agencies please. We are happy with the ones we use.
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.
We have welcomed Dawei to the team and are excited about the skills he brings in Interface Design and Content Management Solutions, we are still on the look out for more of the same (if only we could clone him).
New business means more work, which means we need more people! Currently we are looking for contract web developers, (impress us after a month or so and you can have a full-time position :)). Specifically for bespoke Content Management System setup to start with, then after that our little creative world is your oyster :)
In a fast, clean and efficient manner, you’ll be proficient in:
Experience of the following gives you bonus points
You’ll have a top class practical knowledge of accessibility, usability, cross browsers & platforms. On a less heavy note, you’ll get to build site front-ends from PSDs, in a pro-active manner.
Alongside the build, you’ll be involved in the analysis of requirements, specification of technical solutions and costing of development work.
No newbies, you need to hit the ground running!
Email jobs@catchdigital.com with an outline of your skill base and level, show us some recent work you’ve completed and outline any recent work experience you’ve had
along with rate card.
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