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Pelime in private BETA

2009-11-11T21:28:00.003Z

We take pride in announcing PELIME, the beautiful new online network for creative professionals working at the top of their game. Connect, congregate and collaborate. Collect, collate and create. Commercialize your artwork, your portfolios, your ideas.

Buy and sell, pitch or patter, PELIME is the creative outlet for the creative community.

Boost your credentials. Contact us for an application.

HIP HOTELS on iPhone

2009-10-16T10:04:00.006+01:00

HIP HOTELS GUIDES for iPhone

Gastro Pub, Groovy Grand, Dude Ranch, Beach Carib… appropriately named, stylish little collections of Highly Individual Places sought out and brought to your iPhone by the pace setters at HIP Hotels. Uncover hidden gems, browse evocative images and prose that drifts you away. When temptation gets the better of you, a gentle touch calls reservations and before you know it, you’re on your way there…

Katana designs, builds and publishes the iPhone Apps in a happily expanding partnership with HIP Hotels.

HIP HOTELS MUSIC

2009-09-15T09:57:00.001+01:00

HIP HOTELS MUSIC

The cool, new music service for hotels from the style hunters at HIP Hotels offers an online musical smorgasbord of nine ambient zones to select from, downloaded to an on-site control box and piped to selected locations around the property.

Katana creates one of its most beautiful and technical flash interfaces for the site, as well as a bespoke content management system and an interface for clients of the service to login and manage their music.

Pretty pictures...

2009-08-01T10:19:00.003+01:00

MAKE-UP ARTIST

A beautifully clean and fast-loading flash website for make-up artist Florence Bacquert, designed to showcase gorgeous images within an intuitive navigational framework. Fashion people are busy and like their sites simple and easy to use.

WYNDHAM GRAND HOTELS

2009-07-01T09:51:00.001+01:00

WYNDHAM GRAND LONDON

This new luxury all-suite hotel with the best prospect over the Thames in Chelsea harbour prepares for its extensive refurbishment with a sleek new website and an inclusive approach to online communications, embracing web 2.0 and social media opportunities, perhaps the first luxury hotel in London to do so.

Katana designs and builds the new website and a bespoke content management system, and recommends tools such as a blog, twitter and a digital visitor’s book for their (happy) guests to record their experiences…

katana + HIP Hotels

2009-04-14T23:30:00.003+01:00

HIP Hotels appoints katana.

HIP Hotels teams up with katana to create a series of brand new and exciting digital properties designed to enhance its brand equity across new media and distribution channels, and consolidate its position as the leading innovator in the luxury travel sector.

design + content and form + function

travelbrief: dubai tops travel charts

2009-04-03T09:00:00.000+01:00

travelbrief: dubai downloads at a rate of over 1,000 copies per week and is the no 1 travel app in the UAE. this brings the travelbrief downloads to over 7,000 in six weeks, proving the platform emphatically.

design + content and form + function at www.travelbrief.info

travelbrief: launches iPhone App

2009-03-02T16:09:00.013Z

Travelbrief: the luxury digital destination guides designed by Katana, launches its first iPhone edition on the App Store. Travelbrief: Moscow is now available for download free of charge.

Designed for browsing like a luxury magazine; flick through the pages, zoom into listings, call, link to web and email, call up maps, share with friends, register for news and updates... Next editions include Dubai, Paris, St Tropez, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Miami, Los Angeles... watch this space!

http://www.travelbrief.info

travelbrief:
published by Vivo Publishing
designed by Katana
technology by Katana XL

vitchr. a new creative digital concept from Katana XL

2009-02-20T20:26:00.002Z

OutOrIn re-launches site with new look

2009-02-13T15:20:00.004Z

OutOrIn, possibly the most exclusive of gated online communities, re-launches its membership application microsite with a new identity and a new, more luxurious look-and-feel. Identity and website design + build by katana.

http://www.outorin.net

Saloni website launches

2009-02-06T09:40:00.006Z

The new website for hot London designer, Saloni, launches today....
a katana design + build, with bespoke CMS and Private Area to create individual media download pages for press and buyers.
We look forward to big things from Saloni!

http://www.salonilondon.com

Rocco Forte Collection campaign microsite

2009-02-01T18:00:00.000Z

The Rocco Forte Collection appoints katana to create its gift marketing campaign and supporting microsite. Campaign materials are created by katana with images hand drawn by talented illustrator, Robyn Neild. Site design+ build by katana.

pressarmy + katana

2009-01-15T20:00:00.008Z

Press Army is a clever tool that searches and records what people are saying about your product or your brand on online social media. It helps you analyze and disseminate all the online chatter, and lets you refine and define your brand strategy, prescriptively or reactively...

Click here to learn more about Press Army

The Little Black Book website launches

2008-12-02T20:00:00.004Z

The Little Black Book is a member’s only exclusive social planner that gives you unparalleled access. Access to the finest restaurants and members clubs in London, access to luxury boutique hotels and events around the world and as a member you will benefit from our relationships that we have built, so we will always be able to sort out “that Table” or guest list, book that little boutique hotel that you never knew existed for the weekend, and gain you access to exclusive events.

Click here to view website

Artsetter

2008-12-01T20:00:00.004Z

Artsetter pre-launch microsite goes live

Artsetter is a social and commercial community dedicated to supporting art in all its forms, connecting artists with art lovers and offering the opportunity to browse and buy work from member artists specially selected by their own peer-group

a katana design + build, with bespoke, multi-level, Flex CMS and eCommerce

Click here to view website

Behnaz Kanani website launches

2008-11-02T20:00:00.001Z

Click here to view website

Skin Magazine

2008-09-01T20:00:00.001+01:00

Click here to view publication

KATANA.RE

2008-09-01T20:00:00.000+01:00

katana.re is a new strategic design and communications consultancy focusing on the clean technology and environmental sector. With a blend of industry experience and broad creative resources, the firm offers a wide range of design and communications solutions to launch new business and help develop established companies in the field. Click here to view website

SUMMER 2008

2008-08-01T18:00:00.000+01:00

Form and function. Style and substance. We hope this illustrates our approach to design and development; materials and sites that look and deliver the business, that enhance brand equity and return on investment. As we enjoy another British summer we are pleased to offer a little sunshine and introduce some of the projects we have developed so far this year...

These include:

Sofitel, luxury hotels
[ multi-lingual digital directory ]

Embassy, private club
[ branding, collaterals, website + content management system ]

Black, private club & concierge
[ website + content management system ]

More new releases are presented on our website and include materials and websites for Carte Blanche, bespoke and luxury travel; Linley, bespoke furniture and interiors; Vassilisa, fashion designer; Artsetter, an invitation-only community for artists and art lovers. We are also delighted to support Imperial College London and The Honeypot Charity with their new website...

SPRING 2008

2008-03-01T18:00:00.000Z

As we welcome spring, we welcome new additions to our expanding team and new clients in fashion, travel and leisure, retail and private equity. We will be announcing exciting developments in digital media with new sites, campaigns and technologies launching soon...

DIAGEO
Katana was engaged by RESERVE BRANDS, the luxury arm of Diageo, the global spirits monolith, to refresh its branding and communications materials. The brands being developed by katana include: Buchanan's,Ciroc, Don Julio, Johnnie Walker Blue Label, Tanqueray No. TEN

SOFITEL
French hotel giant Accor re-brands their flagship SOFITEL LUXURY HOTELS and engages Katana to design and build a flash-based, multi-lingual, interactive, global hotel directory to be publishedonline and launched during ILTM 2007 in Cannes. This replaces the traditional print version in line with a progressive new online strategy...

SOHO HOUSE
Leading members club and media haven Soho House launches House Magazine to critical acclaim and appoints katana to convert its print issues to digital format… The digital version of the launch publication led the pre-opening of new flagship Shoreditch House…

NOMINATION
Katana wins the global advertising account for Nomination, the Florentine jewellery company famous for creating the world’s first Composable Bracelet. Working in tandem with Nomination’s marketing team, Katana creates, designs and produces advertising materials and collaterals right through to website look
and feel…

CONCEPT VENUES invited Katana to work with their current properties and their exciting new projects to develop branding, communications materials and websites...

Embassy is opening sister venues in Abu Dhabi and Dubai...
www.embassyabudhabi.com

Geales re-launched to great fanfare and critical acclaim...
www.geales.com

SMALL LUXURY HOTELS OF THE WORLD
Katana produces SLH's award-winning 500 page hotel directory in digital format for AMEX Platinum and Centurion cardholders for the fourth year...

Our Brands

2008-01-01T18:00:00.000Z

The companion publication
to travelbrief: the definitive
local luxury brand directory
designed for access on the
move...
launching 2008
www.luxuryindex.info

Our beautiful and luxurious digital destination guides;
carefully collected and compiled listings, accessible anywhere, anytime,
free of charge...
Buenos Aires, Monaco, Dubai , Abu Dhabi, Moscow and Brussels already available at:
www.travelbrief.info

Our publishing company set up to create, design and deliver exceptional new digital publications; carbon neutral, environmentally sound, innovative,useful…
www.vivopublishing.com

Opening its doors online in 2008 with a limited but carefully chosen selection of interesting and useful travel-related accessories with an environmental outlook, music to set the mood for your travels, and of course our city guides....
www.travelbriefboutique.com

An exciting new venture with audiosushi, playlist specialists Kerrin Wallace and critically acclaimed DJ Disastronaut.
www.audiosushi.net

Our first limited edition CD, a sexy mix of tango and electronica, accompanies the Bs As edition of travelbrief and champions un-signed but outstanding talent from the city...
OUT IN 2008. Register with travelbrief to reserve your copy now!
www.travelbrief.info