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| Katana is a compact, creative studio from London. |
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creative x commercial |
| We create intelligent, commercial, brand and digital media for clients all over the world. Paris, St. Tropez, Vienna, Frankfurt, Kiev, Athens, Stockholm, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Nairobi, Dubai and Muscat are some of the places our work has travelled. |
| form + function |
| We are design-led but commercially driven, which means that “looks” matter, almost as much as the results. In this respect we are deeply superficial, but our work needs to be as appealing as it is relevant to the brand, its business, its customers. The twin pillars of form and function underpin everything we do. |
| innovation / design |
| Understanding the importance of building brand equity across all media, we invested in the development of Katana XL, our digital studio in Beijing. Our comrades over there build the innovative digital solutions we dream up over here. |
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| (environmental & social) |
Understanding the peril our planet appears to be
in, we also run a dedicated environment strategy and design unit, Katana RE. We’re saving the world, one pixel at a time.
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| * strategic creativity |
| As globalisation intensifies, with media channels fragmenting at increasing pace and social media forever altering familiar landscapes, we seek out credible and legitimate strategies to take you seamlessly off the printed page, onto the shop
floor through the web and into your iPhone (and your pocket), with relevance, with intelligence, and without missing a beat. |
| we practice what we preach |
| We test our ideas, our principles and our technologies on our own brands, and when invited (and it makes commercial sense), we take stakes in businesses that we help develop. |
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| 25 staff, 2 cities, 7 languages |
| Our cosmopolitan team have lived and travelled all over the world and speak English, French, German, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. |
| well travelled, well watered, well fed |
Our natural home is high-end hospitality, lifestyle
and travel but we are equally comfortable in the boardrooms of the city and in the hothouse chaos
of upwardly mobile start-ups. |
| passionate, patient, persistent |
We will challenge you and we will cajole you. We hope that we will inspire you as we learn from you. We will certainly work ourselves to the bone for you.
We welcome your call. |
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Our beautiful collection of digital destination guides; carefully selected listings of the best in class, accessible anywhere, anytime, free of charge, for your laptop and your iPhone.
Buenos Aires, Moscow and Dubai are available on iTunes and downloaded over 100,000 times. Miami, Los Angeles, Brussels, Abu Dhabi, Monaco, St Tropez, Goa, Kerala, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat and more out soon.
Register for news and updates at www.travelbrief.info
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Pelime is the hot, new, online community and commercial / social network for creative professionals. Showcase images, audio, video, sell work, collaborate and communicate. Over 1500 members in one month, by word-of-mouth and invitation only, and over 3000 works uploaded. And counting.
Katana partners Pelime and develops the site, branding, business and creative strategies. Believing absolutely in the collaborative power of the web, we are delighted to be able to offer this platform to our fellow creatives.
Boost your credentials. Contact us for an application. www.pelime.com |
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We publish a series of stunning, photographic mini-guidescreated exclusively for iPhone with HIP Hotels, the original,boutique hotel guidebooks from the globe-trotting writer and photographer Herbert Ypma.
Gastro Pub, Groovy Grand, Dude Ranch, Beach Carib are the first 4 of 20 appropriately named, stylish little collections of Highly Individual Places available on iTunes now.
Register for news and updates at hiphotels@katanalimited.com |
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Great Ormond Street Hospital is full of remarkable children whose bravery touches everyone.
GOSH is also full of remarkable men and women whose compassion and dedication gives those children a chance to fulfill their dreams and their potential, and keep the magic alive for the people who love them.
We owe them an immeasurable debt of gratitude.
Please, give generously... |
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Katana is (delighted to be) appointed by Worldwide Helpers to design and build a new online community platform that unites young volunteers with thousands of low-to-no cost charitable causes that need their help.
"Worldwide Helpers is a non-profit search engine created to foster partnerships between volunteers and charitable organisations worldwide… committed to removing the financial barriers of volunteering by providing only low or no cost projects.” |
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The Sick Children’s Trust believes that no child should be separated from their family while in hospital receiving treatment for serious illness.
Giving families the ability to stay by their children's side and give that most basic of medicines, their love and support, saves lives, simply.
Please, give generously... |
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