We even had a few models swanning about in Snapshot Media T-Shirts which was funny and looked awesome.

Thanks to everyone who helped out and took part. We’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

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We’re a charitable bunch and will be going to offer our help. Lawrence will be doing photography and I’ll be there with one of our clients, Jim from Maze helping where I can. You’ll see the models sporting Snapshot Media and Maze T-Shirts later in the night.

Check out the Corn Exchange Facebook page to keep up to date with what’s happening over there.

Dario

The original press release is below:

FOUR WOMEN who have survived cancer will be strutting their stuff on the catwalk alongside more than forty models at a special charity fashion event in aid of Cancer Research UK.

Taking place at Leeds Corn Exchange on the evening of Thursday 19 April, ‘Catwalk for life’, will see an eclectic mix of Leeds Corn Exchange’s independent boutiques showcasing their spring/summer collections to raise money for research into cancer.

Sharing the limelight with professional models are four women who have themselves been though cancer, including Leanne Mannifield of Wakefield.

Two and a half years ago, Leanne, 37, was diagnosed malignant melanoma, the more serious form of skin cancer. While seven and a half months pregnant with her second child, she noticed that a freckle under her right breast had become larger and had turned black in colour.

Doctors thought it was down to her expanding tummy, but shortly after Lydia was born in April 2009, tests showed that it was skin cancer. A week later Leanne had surgery to remove the mole and surrounding tissue, leaving her with 40 stitches. She didn’t need any further treatment, but today still needs to attend hospital for regular checkups.

Fair skinned and blonde, Leanne had regularly used sunbeds in her twenties, and the doctors told her they were over 90 per cent sure this was the cause of cancer.

Leanne, who loves fashion, is really excited to be part of Catwalk for Life. “I really want to get the message out to other young women that you don’t have to be tanned to be fashionable and that you need to really look after yourself if you go in the sun. I never thought that going on a sunbed would lead to cancer. If I hadn’t have been pregnant I might not have noticed the change in my freckle and I might not have been here to celebrate her third birthday.”

We’ve been involved in this project from the start, working with LAP to create suitable branding and designing a website consistent with this. Managed by our Expose CMS, we’re sure this will get their business off to a great start.

Currently available in English, the site will soon be available in several different languages such as Chinese, German and Spanish, making it available to a wider audience.

Get in contact with LAP if you’re looking for language, translation or business services anywhere in the world.

They came to us looking to refresh their web presence, launching a trade store for fabricators alongside their new consumer website. We worked with them to create a fresh new site, helping with content and sourcing renders for over 50 different colours of Corian® material. It includes some great features like a Google Maps integrated dealer locator making it super easy to find a Corian® dealer near you.

Fully content managed by Expose CMS and designed with the target audience firmly in mind, we’re sure this new website will further the success of such a good company.

Get in contact with CD (UK) if you’re looking to use Corian® at home or as part of your business.

The website is fully content managed using Expose CMS and includes a number of features including PDF uploads, video uploads, and a blog so they can keep their clients and audience up to date.

As our team has grown quickly over the last year it’s become apparent that we need a space better suited to 10+ people.

There’ll be a proper write-up, photos and a launch party coming soon but for the moment this will have to do the trick! If you walk past our office next week and the shutters are down you’ll know why.

Onwards and upwards…

Having mastered the art of designing websites that work in both left-to-right and right-to-left languages (not easy!) we’ve seen demand for our services in Arabic-speaking countries grow significantly.

We’ll be working on this project with one of our partner agencies in the region, Ninth Space (new website also coming soon!).

There’s a full website coming soon so watch this space…

Here are the two positions we need filling. You can apply online here, please upload your CV (as a PDF) and send us links to your portfolio (Important!).

Job One: Digital Designer

We’re looking for a Digital Designer to create, implement and manage a range of digital and interactive content, information architecture and website design. You will work in our creative team, and have project management responsibilities working directly with our clients and partner agencies.

Needed:

• Strong design skills and an eye for detail backed up with a strong portfolio
• Extensive knowledge about branding
• Creativity and a strong interest in graphic/web design
• Industry experience, unless you think your portfolio is strong enough
• Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks proficient
• Adobe Illustrator savvy
• Ideas and the ability to convert these into great designs
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail in your work needs to be demonstrated
• Experience working closely with internal or external customers to turn business ideas into innovative designs
• Love keeping up with the latest trends and techniques

Bonus points:

• User Experience knowledge
• Wireframing experience
• HTML/CSS ability

Job Two: Marketing Assistant

We’re looking for a Marketing Assistant to help our team deliver digital projects. You will carry out monthly website analysis and create reports, engage in social media activities, copywriting for the web, content management and basic search engine optimisation. You’ll be expected to work in our team and also direct with our clients and partner agencies.

Needed:

• Strong interest in digital media and marketing
• Excellent copywriting ability
• Good strategic marketing knowledge
• Experience in social media
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail in your work needs to be demonstrated
• Experience working with teams
• Love keeping up with the latest marketing/advertising trends

Bonus points:

• Agency experience
• Search Engine Optimisation expertise
• Google Analytics experience
• Great phone manner

Employee Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible working hours
• Brand new iMac
• Learn new things
• Relaxed and fun atmosphere
• Young forward thinking company with a positive attitude
• The chance to actually have a tangible effect on how the company progresses and grows
• Given the responsibility to work independently
• Flexible role with an array of challenges
• City Centre office with good transport links & great local amenities
• Company meals & events

When Dario and myself don’t have contact details in our address books we tend to grab details from our inboxes as most people these days have them in their email signatures. Copying these from inbox to address book is time consuming but at the end of the day is a necessary evil.

There must be a better way

This got me thinking: what if there was an automated way of pulling contact details from an email signature and adding them to our address books? And even better, could these contacts be automatically integrated into Highrise, our CRM system of choice?

It turns out this problem is actually quite common – and some guys in France have already figured out an answer to it.

WriteThat.Name is a service that scans your incoming email and (mostly!) figures everything out for you. It either runs standalone or as a domain-wide plugin for Google Apps (which we use, yay!). This makes it easy to have a service that pulls in and updates all of our contacts automatically without any tedious copy/pasting and all that for the price of a cup of coffee each month.

Epic timesaver and a great find – I can highly recommend this to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Additionally their phone support was helpful, quick and to the point and they seem to be able to get back to me on Twitter before I even realise I’ve sent them a tweet.

Have a great weekend.

Lawrence Dudley

I’ve been using a Mac for around 10 years now and there’s quite a few I didn’t know about!