HotBox Studios News

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

After working closely with Orange Festival Foods, Hotbox Studios is proud to launch the new Orange Festival Foods website!

Orange Festival Foods is an energetic, friendly, family-run business, specialising in feeding the staff, volunteers and crew who work at music festivals.

Orange Festival Foods provides catering for staff at festivals across the UK including the Glastonbury Festival, Latitude Festival and Leeds Festival, serving anything from 12,000 to 24,000 meals! Orange Festival Foods offer breakfast, packed lunches, dinner, snacks, hot and cold drinks throughout the day. All of Orange Festival Foods’ food is hot, tasty and freshly cooked on site, offering excellent value for money.

The new Orange Festival Foods website is one of Hotbox Studios new WordPress based websites – offering clients the functionality and design they require at a price tailored to the small business.

Find out more about our Hampshire based Small Business Web Design.

For more about PAAM please visit www.orangefestivalfood.co.uk.

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

Hotbox Studios' Mark Hatchard has been working closely with the visual artist Shirazeh Houshiary in 2011 producing a new animated film entitled 'Dust'.

First presented at the Lisson Gallery (Bell St, London) between 12th October - 12th November 2011 within visual artist Shirazeh Houshiary's 2011 'No Boundary Condition' exhibition, 'Dust' is an animation by Shirazeh Houshiary, conceived with the assistance of Mark Hatchard at Hotbox Studios.

Stills from Shirazeh Houshiary's Dust Animation can be found within the Hotbox Studios animation portfolio.

Find out more about our Hampshire based 3D Animation Projects.

Further details can be found within the press release for the exhibition below.

PRESS RELEASE:

"Nothing has no centre and its boundaries are nothingness", Leonardo da Vinci

Lisson Gallery is delighted to announce the seventh solo exhibition of Shirazeh Houshiary to be held at the Gallery since 1984. The show debuts recent large-scale canvases, sculpture and animation, all of which deal with revealing invisible forms that are somehow otherwise unnoticed in the observable realm.

For this exhibition the artist has created five new large-scale paintings, including her first diptych, entitled Between. Executed on either black or white monochromatic canvases the delicate markings of her pencil are dynamic and elusive; they appear to change over time, especially when subject to different light conditions. All of the paintings are composed using two words which are crushed upon one another and bound together as if they cannot be divided. They are repeated in alternating sequences of semantics, one an affirmation, the other a denial, one is quick, one is slow; they overlap to create a dense layer within a diaphanous space. These meticulous pencil traces create a second surface layer, contrasting with the solid aquacryl background. This new layer hovers at the very edge of perception, like a floating veil whose tangibility remains uncertain.

The previously unseen video projection Dust is the latest in a series of animated works that Houshiary begun in 2003. Through the accumulation of soot from a flame, an evolving cycle of images materialises in different quadrants of the frame, portraying the transformation from smoke to soot and then dematerialising altogether. Houshiary shows us that what cannot normally be seen matters every bit as much as what we take for granted; she celebrates the ceaseless rhythm and energy within ephemeral things, invisible but ever-present in the perceptible world. This animation places itself between form and formlessness, presence and absence.

Lisson Gallery is also pleased to present a new series of sculptures by Houshiary. These works are constructed of hollow and solid blocks of anodized aluminium forming a configuration of twisting veils which stretch, pierce, tear and curl the space within and smoothly deform their exterior skin.

Houshiary’s new outdoor sculpture String Quintet consists of five ascending stainless steel spiralling ribbons that unravel from the ground. Each ribbon rises at a different wavelength, intertwining and weaving gently upwards. The changing daylight will simultaneously animate and dissolve its rise and fall.

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-08-16T23:00:00+00:00

The Festival catering company Orange Festival Foods is now using Hotbox Studios’ PAAM Event Management Software!

Orange Festival Foods provides catering for staff at festivals across the UK. Using Hotbox’s PAAM Software Orange Festival Foods has simplified their event recruitment and management needs before, during and after each event.

Festival and Event staff and volunteers can now book their shift patterns for the different roles required by the festival while the Orange team oversees the planning.

Orange Festival Foods can now manage it’s applicants and events in a variety of ways, including:

Simple applicant processing via personal profiles and searches
Event deposit handling
Information distribution including documents and emails
Pre-festival and event shift allocation
Festival and Event planning including system exports
Staff and volunteer performance tracking

Plus much much more!

For more about PAAM please visit www.paamapplication.co.uk.

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

After working closely with Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions, Hotbox Studios is proud to launch the new look, staff focused website www.kangacrew.co.uk.

The new website is a complete redesign, providing a clean and user friendly environment and incorporating the design flare our clients have come to expect from Hotbox Studios. The unique 'hand print' navigation is fun for users, whist the contact page maps outlining the 6 Kangacrew branches are practical and detailed.

Kangacrew is an agency that understands the needs of the nursery staff and childcare recruitment sector, working with both candidates and clients for a variety of recruitment needs. Examples for those looking for either temporary or permanent nursery and childcare jobs include: nursery staff, nursery managers, nannies, cooks and care home staff.

Kangacrew's dedicated consultants are experienced in both recruitment and care work; they are proud of their professional and transparent approach to childcare and nursery recruitment and have been successfully supporting the care sector since 2005.

Hotbox Studios has taken the Kangacrew approach to their new website, based on semantic HTML and CSS with a strong SEO focus to help with bringing in the best candidates and clients.

The website brings together Kangacrew, Kangacare, Kangananny and Kangacook under one roof where all of their available positions can be posted and searched for by area, job type and position.

Interested candidates can now use the Kangacrew website to register, view and apply for jobs, upload their CV and access their profile to keep their details up to date.

The new Kangacrew website is already making a big impact with search engines; helping to improve Kangacrew’s online profile. The new Kangacrew website is now receiving more visits, page views, pages per visit, and a much lower bounce rate as well as an increased average time on time on site.

To find out more please visit www.kangacrew.co.uk.

If you would like to talk to Hotbox Studios about your website and how we can help please get in touch.

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions is the first to use the new version of our PAAM software: PAAM Recruit!

Kangacrew is using PAAM Recruit to assist with recruiting a varied array of staff for the nursery and childcare sector.

Kangacrew is an agency that understands the needs of the nursery staff and childcare recruitment sector, working with both candidates and clients for a variety of recruitment needs. Examples for those looking for either permanent or temporary nursery and childcare jobs include: nursery staff, nursery managers, nannies, cooks and care home staff.

Applicants can now apply and manage their Kangacrew PAAM Recruit profile online. The PAAM Recruit system provides applicants the ability to manage their profile as details change and upload their CV. Applicants can then search for jobs based on qualifications required, location, job type and salary, safe in the knowledge that they will be contacted if positions become available.

Kangacrew's own staff can manage their applicants and candidates in a variety of ways, examples include:

Marking applicants as: Suitable, Interviewed, Accepted, Rejected
Apply automatic templates for rejected and suitable applicants
Email advertising of vacancies which can be targeted to appropriate applicants
Create job templates
Email responses to candidates
Search for candidates by name, status, qualification, preferred role...
Archive old candidates and clients

Plus much much more!

If you'd like to learn more about how PAAM Recruit is helping Kangacrew please contact Hotbox.

WebAdmin@hotboxstudios.co.uk — 2011-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

Hotbox Studios has been working closely with the Maurice Ward Group adding new functionality to the software application Hotbox produced for the Maurice Ward Group in the summer of 2011.

The software application Hotbox created aids the Maurice Ward Group by providing an easily searchable and updatable system to hold their delivery, shipping, logistics and customs brokers; allowing the Maurice Ward Group’s staff to work faster and more productively.

The Maurice Ward Group was established in 1968 to provide global freight forwarding, warehousing, logistics and customs clearance services. The Maurice Ward Group’s clients range from Automotive to Aerospace, Retail to Electronics, Art handling to Project cargo.

Included with the new software application is the ability to link out to relevant information such as Wikipedia pages about their client's and supplier's countries and file upload for presentations.

The new software application for the Maurice Ward Group was produced using PHP and MySQL.

For more about the Maurice Ward Group please visit their website www.mauriceward.com.