Hold on a second...

If you're such a great agency, why are you using someone else's template?

You got us. We've built this site using the Agency template from StartBootstrap. But it's not because we're lazy!

The truth is, we've been too busy working on sites for our clients to pull together a beautiful new website for ourselves.

We also believe in making use of the best tools out there, rather than reinventing the wheel. StartBootstrap created (and open sourced - thanks!) this fantastic template, spending time to make sure each element works across different browsers, devices and screen sizes. But they didn't do it on their own - in fact, their work in turn is based on the Bootstrap front end framework.

Check back in a couple of months for a much more exciting site, and a bit of a taste of what we can do...

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Our registered office is The Hickman Building, 2 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1FX.

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We don't guarantee the completeness or accuracy of any information on our website, nor are we liable for your use of any of that information. So you should not base any decisions on anything you see on our site.

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This website is owned and operated by Four Communications. You can contact us by emailing Luke Alexander.

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Legal info

Four Communications is registered in England and Wales.

Our registered office is The Hickman Building, 2 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1FX.

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Luke Alexander

Co-founder

Luke co-founded Marmelo in late 2015.

He left the safe(r) worlds of the public sector and big agency consultancy behind once he realised being put on the spot to solve difficult problems is what got him up in the morning.

An experienced digital strategist and coder, he can draw on a decade spent coming up with digital solutions for clients around the world, backed up by nearly twenty years of hands-on technical experience. He has an MBA from Warwick Business School, and an MA in Classics from the University of Oxford, both of which have proven more useful than you'd expect.

At Marmelo, he has two key roles. As one of the agency's lead developers, he creates web, mobile and dektop applications in languages and frameworks from PHP and Drupal to C# and Unity.

He also acts as Digital Strategist, drawing on his work at the London Legacy Development Corporation, the NHS and Sony PlayStation, as well as managing Marmelo on a day to day basis.

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Kerry Joyce

Creative Director

Marmelo's founders have worked with Kerry for the last decade and we're delighted to bring her on board as our first full time Creative Director.

Kerry has worked in the United States, the UK and the Middle East, and so brings a decade and a half of new and different perspectives to her work.

Her passion is helping you connect with your audience in insightful ways - whether through flawless UX on digital platforms, the perfect narrative for a media campaign or a visual identity that gets under your skin. The tools of her trade are in-depth research and an ever-evolving, ongoing conversation with her clients.

She has worked with a huge range of clients - from small startups to government agencies and multinational organisations.

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Abigail Coe

Junior Developer

Abigail joined Marmelo in January 2017.

With a background in hospitality, she swapped her job as a maître d’ (playing Tetris with humans) for a role at once closer to and also further removed from actual Tetris.

Having trained at a web development bootcamp, she found that her instinct for problem solving, learned through years working in customer facing roles, combined with curiosity and love of languages left her with a propensity for code.

She also brings with her to Marmelo a ferocious love of quality tea and unparalleled levels of excitement about everything ever that she’ll try and keep under wraps.

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Abhinav Bajpai

Co-founder

Abhinav co-founded Marmelo with Luke in late 2015.

Typically modest, Abhinav struggles with writing these biogs. But that's about all he struggles with.

Just before founding Marmelo, for example, he was polishing off a PhD at the Surrey Space Centre finding ways to help the Mars Rover and other semi-autonomous robots find their way across planetary surfaces. So when the cyborg revolution knows how to find your home, you can blame him.

His tech background covers everything from the complex web and mobile applications that are Marmelo's bread and butter through to creative projects for theatres, Internet of Things integrations, and traffic lights.

At Marmelo, he plays the role of chief technical architect, using his experience in large and small projects to understand complex technical issues, particularly where integration and cross-system communications are required. He also curates our small library of Raspberry Pis.

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Tatiana Disu

Junior Creative Technologist

Tatiana has recently started working with Marmelo on UX and QA across all our projects.

She has recently graduated from Ravensbourne University London’s prestigious Design and Coding BA and is a real up-and-coming talent. She comes to us via previous freelance work as a junior UX designer covering data visualisation and UI interfaces.

She’ll bring a laser focus on UX principles as well as practical talent and user-testing experience to your projects.

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Leo

Dog

Leo is a dog and has no noteworthy skills.

He is unlikely to have any major impact on your project but can appear in Zoom calls by request.

Before joining Marmelo, Leo was being a dog elsewhere.

Leo is on neither Twitter nor LinkedIn.

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Kieran Lad

Head of Production

Kieran blends experience as a project manager with a strong technical background to manage the talents of our thriving team here at Marmelo – ensuring projects run to time and on budget and, most importantly, live up to our high expectations.

Kieran gained his digital wings by working across varying sectors, delivering a range of projects including digital video, online media, viral campaigns, digital outdoor advertising and app development for globally recognised brands such as Lego, Google and Unilever to name a few.

He started his career as a developer of small digital interactive experiences before tackling development of an ad server platform and being instrumental in publisher integrations and digital campaign management. This breadth of experience allows him to understand the myriad requirements of technical projects, and when to apply the various tools and methodologies in his toolkit, including many from the Agile/Kanban stables.

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Mental Health Camden

Camden CCG

Camden provides a huge range of mental health services, but finding them is not a simple task.

While your GP might refer you to a service, for most people it's hard to know where to start when looking for help.

We were briefed to create a site that not only provided simple, easy to use listings of mental health services in the borough, but also helped people understand what was on offer even if they've never interacted with the NHS before.

We consulted with local service users and GPs to create a site that features extremely high levels of accessibility, designed around the needs of mental health users, and featuring a dynamic search functionality on the home page that helps people find exactly what they need, even if they don't know what they're looking for.

The site is currently in its final stages of testing and due to be launched later this year.

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A new website for an iconic venue

Rich Mix

East London's independent arts venue was our first ever client, and holds a special place in our hearts.

Starting with a blank slate as the venue moved to a new booking engine, Spektrix, we took the opportunity to undertake a full UX and redesign process.

The new site is designed in Drupal with a powerful bespoke listings engine under the hood, meaning visitors can quickly find what they're looking for across the huge and eclectic range of events offered by the venue.

Built to be fully mobile responsive and speedy, the site also features a highly configurable back-end which integrates seamlessly with the booking engine Spektrix.

You can see our work at www.richmix.org.uk.

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London Calling

Old Vic / Flying Object

We helped cultural experience agency Flying Object give Londoners a unique taste of a brand new play.

If you visited The Cut during the summer of 2016, you might have seen some strange telephone boxes scattered around one of London's most famous theatres.

Within these boxes, a custom system created by Marmelo used Raspberry Pis and 4G dongles linked to a bespoke cloud back-end to create an audio experience designed to create empathy between theatre audiences and their fellow Londoners.

Picking up the phone links you to a pre-recorded answerphone message from one of the theatre's Community Company. You can read more about the process of developing this unusual interactive experience here or watch the video below.

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The Global Disability Innovation Hub

London Legacy Development Corporation

Working to tight deadlines ahead of the project's launch by the Mayor of London, we were proud to deliver a site for this exciting new initiative at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

GDI Hub is a collaboration between partners closely connected to the Park to make a positive difference to the lives of the one billion disabled people around the world by 2030, in the form of both an online presence and a physical space on the Park.

Our own part in this was taking brand and outline designs and turning them into a site that is a mix of information source for the new project and an interactive collaboration space for those partners.

We delivered the build on time and on budget in under six weeks - check out the site at www.disabilityinnovation.com.

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An Innovation Toolkit

Nesta

We worked with Nesta's Innovation Growth Lab to create a toolkit for governments and policymakers.

The Innovation Growth Lab is a global collaboration that develops and tests different approaches to support innovation, entrepreneurship and growth.

The toolkit is a guide for policymakers and academics to help them design randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to see which interventions lead to growth and positive innovation outcomes.

We workshopped the toolkit with the IGL team, then structured and designed it, developing a publication style from scratch as it was the first major document created by the team. You can download it here. Oh, and we also built their website, which you can find at www.innovationgrowthlab.org

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Welcoming visitors to Discover

Discover Children's Story Centre

Discover is an incredible, imaginative space in east London which is hugely popular with children in the area, who have recently undergone a complete revitalisation and overhaul.

Discover had very specific requirements for the revamp of their booking system, where visitors get access via a day pass to a range of free events.

We worked closely with them and with their back-end ticketing provider Syx to create a whole new system that was robust, secure and made the booking process a pleasure to use.

Delivered against some very tight budgets and timelines, we're really proud of the site, which you can see at booking.discover.org.uk.

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Community Education Providers Network

Camden CCG

Marmelo was hired to take a growing network of education providers in the Camden NHS ecosystem and create a simple, easy to use site that simplified access to it.

We worked closely with Camden CCG and Community Matters, a local social enterprise, to develop the site. We wanted to avoid traditional NHS website designs and break free of the standard format of endless web forms and filtered lists.

Navigating a complex set of demands to ensure that everyone was well represented and the site was useful for everyone - from the tech-savvy to the time-poor, we delivered an initial version in a very short timeframe.

We are now working on phase two of this exciting site - watch this space.

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Dot to dots

For a children's publishing company

We can't talk much about our plans for this software, but we wanted to share some of the work we've done so far.

Working with a children's publishing company, we are developing a system that automates the conversion of images to dot to dot puzzles.

This is more complex than it sounds, and our system handles everything from simplifying and formatting the incoming image, structuring the data into discrete blobs, and numbering the dots in an intelligent manner.

It's a great example of how we're able to provide technical innovation around a problem that few would identify as digital. Get in touch if you'd like to learn more.

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HTML5 presentation solution

London Legacy Development Corporation

PowerPoint's a powerful tool, but for important presentations it's not perfect.

We're working for LLDC - the people behind Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - to create a new system that replaces PowerPoint for their senior speakers. This new system is robust, portable - because it works anywhere there's an internet connection - and means an end to sending 100MB presentations around the country.

Embedded fonts and clever templating means that corporate brands are perfectly retained, and presentations render properly whatever the aspect ratio, filling the screen beautifully no matter where the presentation's taking place.

With a built-in back end presentation creator, admins can change slides in individual presentations or across the board, with changes instantly appearing in any presentation based on the system.

As part of the project, we've done a complete redesign of the slide deck, making it clearer and easier to understand and adding a unique zoom-to-map function to help show people around the Park.

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