Latest News from Rock Kitchen Harris

RKH launches cycle injury website!

31st January '12

Levenes are a legal 500 listed firm who work on personal injury cases with over 170 staff based at offices in London and Birmingham.

We won a competitive pitch to design and build a website to support the Levenes cycle injury department. The website, now live at www.cycleinjury.co.uk, features a range of other fantastic (and great looking) content aimed at helping those injured whilst cycling through no fault of their own. Of particular interest is an interactive accident map which shows all the cycling related accidents on UK roads for the past few years as well as those which Levenes have worked on.

Early feedback since the launch of the website has been fantastic and enquiries have already been received from people who Levenes will hopefully be able to represent.

RKH add two new directors to the board!

30th January '12

We at RKH are pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the board of directors. Paul Sculthorpe and Jamie Mollart have been appointed as full directors.

Jamie is promoted from the role of Account Director where he has handled business such as Taylor Wimpey and De Montfort University for several years. Paul has been particularly involved in the development of online strategy for the agency dealing with major clients such as the Police, Loughborough University and Everards. Both will take on their main board responsibilities in addition to their existing duties.

Congratulations to our new directors.

100 years of great Michelin PR in one year!

20th January '12

RKH had a very busy 2011! Last January, we helped launch the 100th anniversary of the Michelin Guide in the UK with 130 Michelin starred chefs at a very special event in Bibendum.

Over the year, we helped a few establishments with the consistency of excellence to be in the 1911 and 2011 guides to get their share of PR. The result was a superb amount of coverage on 4 TV networks, 10 radio stations and countless local and regional newspapers. What a year for Michelin and what a year for us!

RKH had a "Nose for... Tapas!"

5th December '11

We hosted our annual Nose For event and what an evening it was! Leicester based spanish tapas and wine bar, Barceloneta provided an amazing range of Tapas and the finest Spanish wine and beer.

As if we weren’t already in the mood, we also had a very talented guitarist keeping us entertained with great spanish folk music. We knew it was going to be a damn good night when it took at least 10 of us nearly an hour to bring all the food and alcohol up to our floor! We were spoilt for choice!

RKH just keeps getting bigger!

5th December '11

Due to our overall brilliance, RKH has recently been overwhelmed with work. So over the past six months we’ve welcomed several new additions to the RKH team in the PR, web and design departments. Kyle Bayliss loved RKH so much, that he’s returned as a full member of the web team after spending his university placement year with us. Master of Django, Adam McMaster has also joined the team to help manage their ever-expanding workload.

We’ve also upped our female members after Anna Leaman joined the design department and Sonia Irabor took on the role as PR Coordinator.

Welcome to RKH guys!

RKH goes to the end of the earth for fundraising milkman

5th October '11

We’ve been busy raising awareness of client Kirby and West’s Leicester to Land’s End Charity Event. MD, Graham Smith embarked on the 360 mile journey at 6:00 am on Monday the 12th of September and completed it, one week later at 9:00am on Friday the 16th of September. He went on the expedition in a 1950’s designed milk float in aid of local charities LOROS and PROSTaid.

We designed eye catching leaflets, a livery for the float and even t-shirts for the event. Our web team linked a live feed to the website so we could follow Graham en-route and media coverage we gained before and during the event, ensured a positive response from motorists throughout the journey. All creative work was our version of the milk of human kindness.

The real success is that nearly £25,000 has been raised for two very important charities

RKH create a brand full of personality for Becketts

19th May '11

Over the past few months, we’ve been busy rebranding one of the UK’s largest independent bacon suppliers. With a known and respected name, Becketts wanted a brand full of personality that would really be noticed.

We’ve created an entire range of collateral which includes stationery, packaging, point of sale, web, emails, workwear and livery, all featuring the Becketts’ pig.

Initial reaction has been exceptional with employees and customers buying in to the brand, but it doesn’t stop here, we’ve also created an entire range of illustrations that will be used across all media to represent the variety of Becketts’ products.

Hannah B. High heels. Lipstick. Jewellery.

24th March '11

Local up and coming musician Hannah B has recently taken the exciting step of organising a concert at the O2 academy. We organised a shoot to accompany it, getting some amazing images to use on promotional material and on her website.

Tickets for her show are available at seetickets.com.

RKH + De Montfort University = A winning campaign

11th March '11

Design for De Montfort University (ADD DMU)

Originally founded by business and with world class expertise in a number of areas, De Montfort University wants to share its experience and expertise with businesses.

RKH won a highly competitive pitch against the cream of regional and London agencies.

The result is a flexible and powerful graphic device that can be used across all the university’s faculties and expands on their ‘profit from our expertise’ slogan. We are now working closely with the university on an innovative and targeted campaign to ensure they achieve their aims.

Police.UK takes its first steps

17th February '11

We worked on the design and build of Police.uk for many months, so its launch on February 1st was a major achievement that we’re proud of.

Police.uk is the first of its kind in the world – local policing details and a street-level crime map across all of England and Wales, delivered on time and on budget.

We weren’t just involved in the design of the clear, simple and easy to use public website you see, we also built the entire platform that powers it.

This includes secure systems for police forces to safely upload sensitive data, anonymising that data whilst maintaining its meaning and usefulness, and an API and data store to allow anyone to reuse this valuable data in any way they want.

Launch day was turbulent. Despite preparing the website for a high level of interest it was overwhelmed and for several hours the site was regrettably either very slow or unavailable for a lot of people. We fixed this to cope with the largest volume of traffic later that night when it was featured by just about every news outlet. It worked very well and continues to perform flawlessly with excellent feedback on its ease of use.

Despite some negative press (inevitable given that it’s a government and policing project), the response from UK citizens whom Police.uk caters for has been overwhelmingly positive: