We create intelligent, commercial, brand and digital media for clients all over the world. Paris, St. Tropez, Vienna, Kiev, Athens, Stockholm, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Nairobi 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.
innovation / design
Understanding the importance of building brand equity across all media, we invested in Katana Beijing, our digital studio in China. Our comrades there build the innovative digital solutions we dream up here.
(environmental & social)
Understanding the peril our planet appears to be in, we run a dedicated environment strategy and design unit, Katana RE. We’re saving the world, one pixel at a time!
* strategic creativity
As globalisation intensifies, with media channels ever fragmenting, and social media forever altering familiar landscapes, we seek out legitimate strategies to take you off printed page and into the store, through the web and onto your phone, 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 it makes sense, we take stakes in businesses that we help develop.
24 staff, 3 cities, 9 languages
Our cosmopolitan team have lived and travelled all over the world and speak English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, 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 on the playing fields 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.
Katana
Katana is an independent, creative, digital agency
based in London with studios in Beijing and
Singapore. Katana build brands by applying clear
and commercial strategy, aesthetic graphic design,
by creating campaigns, digital applications and
commercial media channels that add consumer
value and develop brand equity.
Services
branding | communications | digital media – apps,
content management, ecommerce, iPhone apps,
iPad apps, online strategy, social media, social
networks, web design, website development –
graphic design | marketing | strategy
