January 2010
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Heathcote Valley Preschool
Catchlight are proud to announce the launch of the Heathcote Valley Preschool website. The Preschool is a brand new venture by one of New Zealand’s leading consultants in preschool education, so the opening of this high end facility will be an exciting event for Parents in the Heathcote and Christchurch area alike. The site has some special attention paid to usability and is built with a...
October 2009
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Catchlight on the Mainland
Catchlight recently launched one of its larger projects. Mainland Real Estate are a company of leading tourism property brokers specialising in motels for sale in New Zealand. Catchlight created a fully content managed website with multi-faceted search functionality. The site also features a shopping cart style wishlist for adding properties of interest from which users can make multiple enquiries...
June 2009
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Catchlight Rock!
Catchlight were recently employed by Smokefreerockquest to help in the re-design and act as the technical project leader for the co-ordination of the many teams involved that create the various aspects of the content rich website each year. Rock on!
March 2009
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Salerno Motel
Catchlight, recently launched a fresh new website for Salerno Motel, one of the best places to stay in central Christchurch. The website features a clean stylish design supplied by Liquid Design and a Content Management System, so that Salerno staff can edit the site in-house. Visit the site: salernomotel.co.nz
December 2008
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NZBeautyEXPO 2009
The NZBeautyEXPO website for 2009 is now live. The bi-annual trade only event attracts visitors and speakers from around New Zealand and the World and is the place to be seen in 2009. This is the third year that Catchlight have built the NZBeautyEXPO website for the event. Visit the site at nzbeautyexpo.com.
October 2008
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Arrow Beauty on target
Arrow Beauty in Auckland, commissioned Catchlight to design and build a Content Managed Website where product catalogues and Arrow’s product workshop details can be updated in-house. The site features our Mailing List Management System and is coded in web standards.
September 2008
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Bellagio Motel Suites
Five star accomodation in Christchurch gets a new star of it’s own with the elegant and stylish Bellagio Motel Suites. Catchlight were approached to design and build a new website for Bellagio that matched and enhanced the great branding work that had been created. The site has been very successful thanks also to Seekom booking systems. The site also has Content Management so Bellagio owners...
August 2008
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Community Arts Christchurch
The Christchurch Community Arts Council recently commissioned Catchlight to build a nice new website that allows local arts participants to create their own profiles. This organic database of local artists is approved for publication by CCAC staff and is published in the Arts Participation Guide every 18 months.
View Christchurch Community Arts Council
December 2007
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Automatic Gates New Zealand
Drinnan Engineering Ltd in Christchurch are the owners of Automatic Gates and specialise in the distribution, installation and maintenance of one of the worlds top automated gate brands. The Italian designed FAAC™ brand are one of the premium automatic gate systems in the world. Catchlight created a clean and easy to use informational site that makes use of our online catalogue system. The site...
July 2007
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The Cookbook Tour
In 2006 singer-songwriter Flip Grater toured New Zealand to promote her debut album Cage For A Song. She collected recipes along the way and with a cast of unusual characters, has written the ultimate cookbook/tour diary, and a snapshot of Kiwi subculture.
Catchlight created this microsite, based on a the design of the book and a retro themes.
View The Cookbook Tour
May 2007
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Functional Website for Functional Foods
Waihi Bush is the premier flax seed oil available in New Zealand. In case you were wondering, Waihi Bush Oil is high in Omega 3 and 9, vital for optimum health.
On the website, you can learn all about Omegas, find a stockist near you, view product range details, and best of all get practical recipes so you’ll know how to get the benefits into your diet. Yum!
View Waihi Bush
September 2006
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Lorina Harding Website Launch
Canadian native, Lorina Harding is an outstanding musical talent. Her first album, Lucky Damn Woman, received exceptional reviews, winning Best Folk Album at the 1992 New Zealand Music Awards and Lorina was nominated Most Promising Female Vocalist in the same year. In 2005, Lorina’s long awaited second album, Clean Break, also garnered a Tui, while Lorina was Metro Magazine’s pick for...
May 2006
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Counselling Skills Institute
Catchlight have recently launched the new web presence of Christchurch’s leading trainers of counsellors, the Counselling Skills Institute of NZ.
The site had previously been created using a table-based layout, which we have transferred to a tableless CSS layout. The new design features a consistent way of navigating the website, and the layout is coded in web standards. The Counselling...
September 2005
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That's The Story goes all e-commerce
That’s The Story is a childrens radio show that airs every Sunday at 7pm on the Classic Hits Network throughout New Zealand. Catchlight created the website earlier this year and in late 2005 we’re proud to announce the addition and launch of our shopping cart system.
The store sells CD compilations of the stories that have aired on the That’s the Story radio show, along with the...
March 2005
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NZBeautyEXPO website online
The best of the New Zealand beauty industry band together for a weekend of all things beauty. The NZBeautyEXPO features seminars from international speakers, make-up and nail competitions, industry awards and more. The website features all the information to you need to know about the event, where to stay in Auckland. The NZBeautyEXPO is a trade only event and supports the Look Good Feel Better...
October 2004
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Flip Grater website launches
Catchlight are proud to announce the launch of the Flip Grater Website. Flip Grater has been stunning audiences for the last 2 years with her honey coated voice and intelligent songs. A relative newcomer to the scene, Flip has impressed industry, media and music lovers alike with her honest performance style and original, heartfelt writing.
Her first EP, the limited edition 4-track...
May 2004
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Bowron goes Standard with updated design
Bowron are world leaders in the manufacture, production and international export of sheepskin products. Working in consultation with the Bowron graphic design team, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Catchlight undertook the implementation of re-coding of the Bowron website using Web Standards. The advantages mean that the design team have a simpler updating process, the site has a uniformly...
April 2004
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May Music Month 2004
It really does seem like it was only a few years ago when so many kiwi tracks on the charts was a pretty rare thing. Well, May Music Month 2004 is here and Catchlight are celebrating our music industry clients by releasing a series of limited edition postcards. The cards will feature our site Loops and Samples, artiste Mika, and rising original rock band and Catchlight client, 4Eulogi. All of...
September 2003
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Brockdin Lectures Multimedia at MAINZ
Brockdin has just finished lecturing his courses for 2003 at MAINZ, the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand. As Audio Engineering and Music Production industries moves toward computer based platforms and multimedia integration, The Music and Audio Institute run multimedia modules as part of the 2nd year diploma course, to add value to students abilities in the field. Brockdin has recently...
June 2003
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Catchlight do the Mika Haka
Catchlight Design are proud to announce that web development for one of New Zealand’s entertainment icon’s is underway. The new Mika Haka website will be online in the coming month or so and feature a retro Maori look. On the site users will be able to access the wealth of Mika History, download video of Mika shows, book shows and the media will have access to hi resolution print...
January 2003
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Steve Avrill Interview
Aside from a host of corporate clients, Dublin Ireland’s Four5one Creative work for some better-known names, including the likes of U2, Depeche Mode, Elvis Costello, Sting, and Tom Jones to just a few. Kiwi designer Brockdin Barr talked to co-owner and award winning Creative Director Steve Averill on the roof of Four5one’s office in the heart of Dublin’s culture quarter, Temple...
December 2002
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Brockdin back from Ireland
Catchlight founder Brockdin Barr has returned to the sweet smelling air of New Zealand after a successful working holiday in Dublin, Ireland. The goal of the trip was to experience new ways of working and absorb European design influences. Included among these experiences was the chance to work at Dublin’s four5one Creative. four5one’s Art Director, Steve Avrill has directed the...