Clients
We build long-term partnerships with the most exciting arts organisations in the UK.
Belgrade Theatre Since 2019
A successful site, optimistically rebranded
Belgrade Theatre 2024
28 February ’24
Belgrade Theatre's brand new website is live!
Oh yes we did – moving panto online
We helped theatres across the country stream their 2020 pantos online during local lockdowns.
Placing theatre centre-stage in the City of Culture
Belgrade Theatre 2020
8 April ’20
We've launched a new site for Belgrade Theatre – we couldn't quite give it the fanfare it deserved but we tried with home-made confetti.
21 February ’20
The lovely people from Belgrade Theatre have travelled from Coventry to see us (and get training on their wonderful new website).
13 December ’19
Nicola, Ray and Emma from the Belgrade came in to see how the website designs are taking shape
21 November ’19
On Love Theatre Day Jen, Anna and Claire are meeting the team at the Belgrade Theatre.
17 October ’19
We're in Coventry, running a web workshop with the lovely team at Belgrade Theatre.
10 October ’19
We're in Coventry for a kick-off meeting with new clients – Belgrade Theatre.
The Comedy Store Since 2019
7 October ’24
It looks like Michael's on stage with his new improv troupe – the lovely team at The Comedy Store.
Bringing the laughs and custom ticketing solutions
The Comedy Store
10 March ’20
Jen's pushing the big red button to get the Comedy Store site live.
5 March ’20
Tommy and Seb, from The Comedy Store are here to chat about a final polish of their new website (going live very soon). They bought us gifts of mango bubble tea. Cheers!
30 January ’20
It's training day – The Comedy Store team are here to learn the ways of the web.
19 November ’19
Anna and Jen met the Comedy Store team (in person and on Skype) to look over the designs for their new site.
16 October ’19
The Comedy Store team are here. Anna is showing initial design ideas for a new website.
‘The best of stand up’ at The Comedy Store
Our September Cog night was a trip to Leicester Square's legendary The Comedy Store. It was Lydia's first Cog outing and we promised her 'the best of stand up'.
27 August ’19
Jen and Claire are at The Comedy Store, chatting about websites. A great excuse to grace that world-famous stage.
20 August ’19
Anna, Jen and Michael are in Manchester, getting to know the team at The Comedy Store.
Derby Theatre Since 2022
6 May ’22
Nick is spending his birthday with an evening visit to Derby Theatre for a show.
12 August ’21
Anna, Nick and Michael are in Derby, meeting their team and chatting about websites.
14 June ’21
We had a great morning with the enthusiastic Derby Theatre team. There were surprisingly few cats.
Discover Children’s Story Centre Since 2019
24 September ’20
Breakfast briefing with the always lovely Jess from Discover Children's Story Centre.
Complex bookings made simple and fun
Discover
4 September ’19
Jen's pushing the big red button to launch the new Discover site.
12 July ’19
Jess and MK from Discover came in to look over the final designs for their new website.
12 June ’19
Anna, Jack and Jen are at Discover to meet some of their board members and talk about their new website.
4 June ’19
We're at Discover chatting with their team about designs for their new website.
3 June ’19
Jack and Jen are mapping out the user journeys of Discover's audience.
24 April ’19
Jen, Jack and Anna went on a tour of the Discover Story Centre.
2 April ’19
It's kick-off day for our new project with Discover. Jess and MK are here to meet with Jack, Anna and Michael.
Floral Pavilion Since 2023
5 March ’24
A virtual red button press to launch Floral Pavillion's gorgeous new site.
3 July ’23
Nick, Nazma and Emma are in New Brighton running a workshop for Floral Pavilion, with the glorious backdrop of the river Mersey.
Foundling Museum Since 2021
Where creative action transforms lives
Foundling Museum website
26 January ’22
Nick’s pressing the red button, the new Foundling Museum has gone live!
19 April ’21
Emma, Anna and Michael are running a workshop with The Foundling Museum. Their first website (in 2004) was our job #152. Their new site is #9994.
1 April ’21
Emma and Anna got to go to a real life meeting this afternoon, extremely exciting and inspiring.
Gulbenkian Arts Centre Since 2016
29 September ’21
Michael and Anna are in Canterbury, visiting Dave at The Gulbenkian.
1 October ’19
Lucy went down to Canterbury recently to visit the team at Gulbenkian.
13 November ’17
Michael's back in Canterbury, chatting websites with The Gulbenkian team.
16 October ’17
We're in Canterbury, visiting Dave and Jesse at the Gulbenkian.
30 May ’17
Dave and Jess, from The Gulbenkian, are here for training in their new website's content management system.
3 November ’16
Sam, Sæunn and Michael are in Canterbury, running a communications workshop at Gulbenkian.
HOME Since 2021
4 October ’24
Nazma had a chance meeting with our lovely client Petra from Liverpool Biennial, during an evening out at another client venue - HOME in Manchester.
3 November ’23
Michael's in Manchester. He popped by HOME for a drink with Bonnie and Julie.
1 September ’22
Nick has pressed the red button and launched our new website for HOME in Manchester.
15 February ’22
Alex, Tom Emma and Anna went up to Manchester to see the HOME team
20 October ’21
Alex, Anna and Michael are at HOME. Thanks to their team for lunch and useful chats.
16 September ’21
After attending an AMA session about sustainability, Ed's checking out HOME's fantastic bee project.
15 September ’21
Alex has pressed the red button for the launch of our latest site with HOME in Manchester
4 June ’21
Emma checked out HOME whilst in Manchester.
Horniman Museum and Gardens Since 2019
Squeezing a world of content into a museum site
Horniman Museum and Gardens
29 June ’20
Razvan's pet terrapin is helping him work on the Horniman site today.
24 June ’20
We're celebrating the Horniman's Great Walrus Tea Party today. Here's Patsy Alex's home stitched walrus, tucking into the cakes early.
19 September ’19
Jen, Claire and Anna took in the view at the Horniman before their meeting.
15 August ’19
Claire & Jack are exploring the Horniman after a quick client catch-up.
16 July ’19
Jack, Claire and Anna went to the Horniman to catch up with Connie and the team.
21 May ’19
Jack and Connie are butterfly spotting, having been chatting through the site architecture for the Horniman's new site.
Team outing to the Horniman Museum and Gardens
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a landmark for South London. Lots of the team had visited over the years, but do we know it as well as we think?
14 March ’19
The team spent the afternoon exploring the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
27 February ’19
Anna, Claire and Jack are back at the Horniman leading a workshop about audiences.
26 February ’19
Anna and Jack are visiting the Horniman's Study Collection Centre and delving into lots of their many, many objects.
25 February ’19
Anna, Alex and Jack are at the Horniman, leading a communications workshop with their staff team.
20 February ’19
Anna, Jack and Michael are at Horniman Museum, meeting with Connie and Nick, their Director. Chatting about future vision planning and how our website project will feed into those plans.
13 February ’19
Anna, Jack and Michael are at Horniman Museum, kicking-off the major website project we've just begun with them.
17 January ’19
Jack's meeting our new client Connie, and the Walrus, at the Horniman Museum & Gardens to talk about a new website for them.
6 December ’18
Michael and Anna were given out-of-hours access to the World Gallery at the Horniman Museum. Here's Anna, leading a school of fish and following a shark.
Lakeside Arts Since 2023
12 March ’24
Nick was with the team at the gorgeous Lakeside Arts to provide training for their brand new website.
7 December ’23
Lakeside getting up close and personal with the designs for their new website.
16 June ’23
Justin, Nazma and Spencer made a trip to Nottingham to see the lovely people at Lakeside Arts.
Landmark Theatres Since 2020
8 June ’21
Alex had some help from Harris the puppy to launch our latest site for the team at Selladoor.
18 May ’21
We're pressing the go live button on the first of a few sites for Selladoor. It's our first site launch from the studio in quite some time.
19 October ’20
We're chatting to Sam from Selladoor (over Zoom) about projects old and new.
Lock-down breakfast briefings
Ed takes a look back at our summer of Zoom breakfast briefings.
6 August ’20
We chatted with Sam from Selladoor about plans for social distancing at their venues.
17 February ’20
Jen's doing more CMS training today: this time for Sam from Selladoor.
9 December ’19
Sam form Selladoor was here to go through designs.
27 November ’19
After a design catch up with the team, Sam from Selladoor is working from the studio. This is his serious face.
15 October ’19
Sam from Selladoor dropped by to discuss wireframes over tea and biscuits
26 June ’19
The team from Selladoor are in the studio for a workshop.
Leeds Playhouse Since 2022
3 January ’24
Nazma ticked off another client in her unofficial "Cog client tour" with a visit to Leeds Playhouse.
20 October ’23
Nick headed over to Leeds Playhouse to catch Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing.
13 July ’23
Day one of the AMA conference at Leeds Playhouse. The Cog team, getting a 'photo with the band', the keynote speakers Kully Thiarai and the Leeds 5 (female cultural leaders of colour).
Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts Since 2022
15 April ’24
Nick is in a blustery Poole to catch-up with the team at the Lighthouse.
23 November ’22
Nick pressed the red button and launched a new website for Lighthouse Performing Arts Centre in Poole.
26 April ’22
Today Michael and Nick were visiting the Lighthouse in Poole to kick their website project off with an audience focused workshop.
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Since 2023
30 August ’23
Emma and Nick were in Liverpool today to kick off a website project for the lovely team at Everyman and Playhouse.
11 July ’23
Nick fulfilled a teenage dream, stepping on stage at Liverpool Everyman.
25 July ’18
Jack’s at the Everyman Playhouse Bistro for an evening of Jazz and dinner with fellow AMA conference attendees.
Lyric Since 2016
24 April ’24
Michael and Justin are at Lyric Hammersmith for the press night of Minority Report.
10 October ’23
Jo and Lily were at Lyric Hammersmith for The Empress press night.
15 April ’22
Michael's in Hammersmith for the press night of Mike Bartlett's Scandaltown at Lyric.
Bringing a terrifying classic back to the stage
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories at Lyric
For our April Cog night we headed to Lyric Hammersmith to see the highly anticipated return of Ghost Stories. Emily gives her chilling take on the evening.
28 March ’19
Jack, Anna and Michael are at the RSA, chatting with Dion and Amy, from Lyric Hammersmith.
26 October ’18
Jack and Ehti are catching up with the team at the Lyric about some changes to their site.
15 June ’18
Amy, from Lyric, is here to chat with Jack about their website.
22 January ’18
Jack and Tom are catching up with some of the Spektrix team to talk about a new project for Lyric, Hammersmith.
9 February ’17
We're back in Hammersmith, chatting websites with the lovely team at Lyric.
7 November ’16
Becca's at the Spektrix conference at Lyric Hammersmith today. It's a hive of ideas and networking, with exciting speakers from across the arts.
Shopping and F*cking at Lyric
October's Cog Night was the revival of Mark Ravenhill's shocking debut. Would this production at Lyric Hammersmith still have the power to offend? Matt gives us his opinions.
6 September ’16
Sam, Anna and Michael are in Hammersmith, at Lyric, kicking off their new website project with a staff workshop.
18 August ’16
Michael's in Hammersmith for a first meeting with new clients, Lyric. Catrin John gave him a tour of their amazing new building. And they couldn't resist having a quick walk through the stunning main auditorium.
4 November ’15
Sam's at the Spektrix conference, giving a 'lightening talk' about how to get the most from your agency. Here's the intimidating view from the stage at Lyric, Hammersmith.
The Marlowe Since 2009
9 January ’24
Back at The Marlowe, chatting with Ben and the team about branding, brochures and websites.
Oh yes we did – moving panto online
We helped theatres across the country stream their 2020 pantos online during local lockdowns.
Giving The Marlowe presence and personality
The Marlowe branding
27 June ’19
Tonie's casting her eyes over the proofs for The Marlowe season brochure.
20 May ’19
Laxmi is having a look through the new Marlowe brochures we've designed.
3 December ’18
Michael and Jack are being given a tour of The Kit in Canterbury – their guides are John, Ben and Helene from The Marlowe.
5 July ’18
Jack’s having a look at The Marlowe’s new venue, The Kit, before meeting with their senior management team to talk about changes to their site.
14 June ’18
Jack and Michael are at The Marlowe, chatting about ways to make their website even better.
5 April ’18
Anna's received a delivery of the colourful Marlowe Summer season brochures that we've designed.
27 March ’18
Anna and Michael are in Canterbury, strolling by our favourite theatre.
20 March ’18
It's lunchtime. Jason and Helene are here, from The Marlowe, and Ben is here, from Spektrix. We're talking ticketing and how we can make the their site even better for audiences
2 August ’17
Anna is getting busy checking through the proofs for Marlowe Theatre's season brochure.
30 June ’17
We're in Canterbury, celebrating the success of the website we've built for The Marlowe. Ben and Helene kindly posed to recreate a photo from 2011.
19 April ’17
John, Helene and Ben from The Marlowe are here. Becca is guiding them through the backstage scenes of their new website.
29 March ’17
Michael's at The Marlowe. His visit coincided with a photoshoot of the auditorium. He found himself on the set of Ray Cooney's Out of Order, with Helene and photographer Tim Stubbings.
15 March ’17
We're at Spektrix, with The Marlowe team, talking purchase paths and event instances.
15 February ’17
Jack, Becca and Michael are back in Canterbury. They're presenting website designs to the whole team at The Marlowe.
7 February ’17
Michael, Matt and Jack are in Canterbury, presenting initial website concepts to our friends at The Marlowe.
11 January ’17
We've taken some time out to chat about a big new commission for The Marlowe.
5 January ’17
In a brief gap between a long day of meetings, Michael's staked his claim on a quiet corner of The Green Room, at The Marlowe, in Canterbury.
13 December ’16
Michael, Becca and Anna are in Canterbury, running a communications workshop with the lovely people from The Marlowe.
17 October ’16
Anna's received the full set of Marlowe Autumn brochures.
17 May ’16
Michael and Anna are at The Marlowe in Canterbury. Here's Anna being given a tour of their wonderful, aisle free, theatre by Kate Evans and John Baker.
8 February ’16
Jenny's donned the headset. It must be time to take detailed amends for the latest season brochure for The Marlowe.
2 December ’15
Michael and Jenny are in Canterbury, chatting with The Marlowe team – Kate, John, Helene and Ben.
13 November ’15
Jenny has just received the new Studio brochures in the post from The Marlowe Theatre. She's blown way by the neon colour.
12 October ’15
It's fluoro-day, the day when Jenny gets to choose the colour for the next Studio brochure for The Marlowe.
5 October ’15
Jenny's been taking amends for the next season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre. She's all smiles, one hour in.
20 August ’15
Michael and Jenny are in an epic meeting with most of the staff from The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.
5 August ’15
The proofs have arrived and are being checked by Jenny, bringing the curtain down on another round of season brochures for The Marlowe.
8 June ’15
Michael and Jenny are at The Marlowe in Canterbury, meeting with John and Kate to plan their next brochure.
12 March ’15
A surprise visit from The Marlowe's communications team. We went to Davy's for our first outdoor lunch of the year.
6 March ’15
Jenny and Michael are at The Marlowe, chatting about how to position their contemporary music offer.
2 October ’14
We've been at The Marlowe all day. Anti-clockwise from bottom left: John Baker, Helene Skoge, Mia Power, Sarah Munday, Ben Travis, Lucie Blockley, Amy Smith, oh and Michael.
28 August ’14
Ross is dazzled by our new issue of The Marlowe Theatre Studio brochure, printed in fluorescent (coincidentally Cog Green).
28 May ’14
Ocky and Michael are at the BFI cafe (one of our regular meeting points), talking to John Baker, from The Marlowe Theatre, about our new two year contract with them.
30 April ’14
Michael’s in Canterbury, taking photos of our branding work for The Green Room, the restaurant at The Marlowe Theatre. You can just about see him, reflected in the right hand window against the backdrop of the cathedral.
11 March ’14
Mike’s dazzled by our new issue of The Marlowe Theatre Studio brochure, printed in fluorescent.
27 January ’14
Ocky, loving the excuse to pop on a head-set, is on a lengthy phone call. He’s running through amends with the Marlowe team for their season brochure, which we produce with them 3 times a year.
5 December ’13
Our two new brochures for The Marlowe came in today. Ocky’s after some family fare in the main auditorium, whereas Mike’s looking for something more edgy in the Studio.
29 November ’13
Michael and Annelise have spent the day in Canterbury in back-to-back meetings at The Marlowe, including this gathering to talk about the interior design of their restaurant refurbishment.
15 October ’13
Greg’s checking proofs we’ve received of The Marlowe Theatre’s Spring Season brochure, which we’ve been working on for the past few weeks.
24 July ’13
Michael’s in Canterbury for the second day in a row. This time here’s there to talk to John Baker about their season brochure and membership magazine.
23 July ’13
Michael’s in Canterbury, running a workshop with The Marlowe Theatre team. There were some pretty intense discussions, fuelled by biscuits and sweets.
5 July ’13
Mike casts a critical eye over our design for the new brochure for The Marlowe Studio.
24 June ’13
Ross has been planning a summer of cultural events, aided by our new Marlowe Theatre brochure.
13 June ’13
Alan Bennett dropped in on us today, courtesy of the new cover of Spotlight magazine. Who knew he had such brawny hands?
18 April ’13
We’ve picked a copy of the The Marlowe Theatre’s summer season brochure which we’ve designed. Annelise is having a flick through before work begins on the autumn brochure next week.
2 April ’13
Dolly Parton made an appearance in the studio today, in the form of the front cover of our latest issue of Spotlight, The Marlowe Theatre’s membership magazine.
27 March ’13
Michael and Ocky are in Canterbury for a meeting at The Marlowe. Whilst in town, they popped by to see our branding and interpretation materials going up at Canterbury Roman Museum.
20 February ’13
Ocky’s been checking the proofs for the new Marlowe Friends Spotlight Magazine.
7 February ’13
Michael met with John and Paula, from the Marlowe, today. They were discussing ways to extend their hugely successful, award winning, brand.
11 January ’13
We’ve in Canterbury, visiting The Marlowe team and Jo at The Beaney. Here we are at the Marlowe, before sneaking into the matinée performance of Sleeping Beauty.
4 December ’12
Michael went to The Marlowe Theatre to watch their Sleeping Beauty panto, Here’s (some of) the Marlowe team, Ben Travis, Amy Smith, Sarah Munday, John Baker and Mia Power, having had post panto drinks.
9 October ’12
Ocky is poised and ready to go through amends with John Baker for the Marlowe Theatre brochure.
30 August ’12
John, Ben and Helene from the Marlowe have popped down to the studio for a catch-up, this time however, the panto van stayed in Canterbury.
21 August ’12
We’ve received our file copies for the latest edition of The Marlowe Friends membership magazine, Spotlight. This edition’s cover star is Gareth Gates, who is in panto at the Marlowe later in the year.
9 May ’12
Ocky and Michael are at the Southbank, meeting with John Baker from The Marlowe Theatre. Here’s John and Ocky ‘relaxing’ on deckchairs in front of the BFI.
1 May ’12
An unexpected surprise. We’d kind of forgotten that Ben Travis and Helene Skoge, from The Marlowe, were coming in. Luckily Ocky was well prepared.
10 April ’12
Our studio has been dominated by the design of the latest season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre, now it’s filled with printer’s proofs.
19 January ’12
Michael and Ocky spent the day in Canterbury with The Marlowe team - Ben Travis, John Baker and Helene Skoge.
6 December ’11
Michael’s been to the panto in Canterbury: press night at Cinderella. The Marlowe’s Ben and Helene kept him company.
4 October ’11
The Royal Gala opening of The Marlowe Theatre. Michael, Ocky, The Duke and Duchess of Kent and 1200 other people were there to celebrate.
26 August ’11
Delivery of the new season brochures for The Marlowe Theatre.
18 August ’11
Michael received this lovely invite to The Marlowe’s gala opening, featuring the logo we designed, many months ago.
16 August ’11
John and Mike, checking every detail of the season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre, a 56pg publication.
11 August ’11
Proofs, proofs and more proofs. John and Ocky and surrounded by sheets from The Marlowe's brochure and magazine.
1 August ’11
Longest phone call ever! John taking type corrections (from The Marlowe Theatre), over the phone, for almost 2hrs.
Museum & Library of the Order of St John Since 2010
Late at the Gate: Ye Olde Tavern Quiz
For May's Cog Night we took Matt to the Museum of the Order of St John for his first ever 'pub' quiz. He tells us what he made of the event.
17 May ’17
Cog night! We're The Museum of the Order of St John for a quiz night.
24 November ’16
Becca and Sæunn have been invited to the Museum of the Order of Saint John for an 18th Century themed evening of frolicking, frivolity and gin.
29 October ’15
Wine, crisps and quizzing. Jenny, Sam, Bryony, Sæunn and Michael are at the Museum of the Order of St John for a fundraising pub quiz. They've been joined by special guest, Lydia.
12 August ’15
Becca is pushing the launch button on a new website for The Museum of the Order of St John.
29 July ’15
Cake and website training with the lovely team from the Museum of the Order of St John.
16 July ’15
Peter from the Museum of the Order of St John has popped in. Becca is giving him a sneak peek of their new website. Ross is lurking behind.
Museum of the Order of St John: Private Tour
As our longstanding relationship with the historic museum continues, Curator Tom Foakes suggested a private tour for our April Cog night.
20 April ’15
Michael and Sam are at the Museum of the Order of St John. Here's Sam meeting with Curator, Tom Foakes.
10 November ’11
Michael’s out again. A multi-meeting tour of London, ending at the Museum of the Order of St John, about a possible new project.
10 August ’11
Shabana from London Museums Hub came in to proof the Stories of the World report that John is designing.
Nottingham Playhouse Since 2020
28 March ’24
Nick was at Nottingham Playhouse to watch The Children. It had him on the edge of his seat.
29 February ’24
Nick was at Nottingham Playhouse to catch the eagerly anticipated production of Minority Report.
5 December ’23
Nick kicked off his Christmas season with a trip to Nottingham Playhouse to catch their production of Cinderella.
Oh yes we did – moving panto online
We helped theatres across the country stream their 2020 pantos online during local lockdowns.
Producing for the producers, in a global pandemic
Nottingham Playhouse
26 November ’20
Breakfast briefing with the lovely Jo Sigsworth, telling us about the Unlocked season at Nottingham Playhouse.
Bubble at Nottingham Playhouse
For our October Cog Night we watched a live-stream of James Graham's play about the Covid-19 pandemic. Ed shares his account of the evening.
25 September ’20
It's launch day again! We've just put a new website for the Nottingham Playhouse live.
14 July ’20
Jen has been training the lovely Nottingham Playhouse team on their new site.
31 July ’24
Beth enjoyed being shown the marvellous Painted Hall by the lovely team at Old Royal Naval College.
24 January ’24
Michael and Alex are at a breakfast opening of the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, to see their Coalescence installation.
13 September ’23
Rosie and Luisa, from Old Royal Naval College, are here to see Lottie and chat about improvements to their site.
28 October ’22
Alex and Emily popped across Greenwich to visit the ORNC team this week.
13 September ’21
Tanya and Natalie from Old Royal Naval College are having a WordPress training session with Nick this afternoon.
1 June ’21
Alex and Michael has a meeting at Old Royal Naval College so it seemed rude not to pop in to see Luke Jerram's Gaia, hanging in the Painted Hall.
Showcasing a magnificent visitor attraction
Old Royal Naval College
18 December ’19
Anna and Jen had a lovely time at the Old Royal Naval College's Christmas gathering this morning.
Painted Hall at Old Royal Naval College
We were lucky enough to be invited to an advanced opening of the restored Painted Hall, at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Michael gives some thought to the occasion and the setting.
12 September ’18
Jack’s at the Old Royal Naval College talking with their access advisory panel about how to make websites accessible.
10 August ’18
Jack's in a lavish room at the Old Royal Naval College chatting to their team about their website and venue hire.
7 August ’18
Another day, another trip to the Old Royal Naval College. Not a bad place for a regular meeting with a new client.
1 August ’18
Anna and Jack visited the Old Royal Naval College's volunteer briefing.
31 July ’18
Jack and Anna are running a communications workshop, just down the road from our studio, at the Old Royal Naval College.
4 July ’18
Jack is hosting a discussion with Felix, Xanthe, Emily and Janet from the Old Royal Naval College, just down the road.
Old Royal Naval College
A private tour of Europe's largest decoratively painted room, skittles in the basement and a trip on a ferris-wheel on the banks of the Thames.
Opera Holland Park Since 2018
15 January ’24
The team are here from Opera Holland Park, chatting about website and ticketing.
The highlight of the operatic calendar
Opera Holland Park
4 March ’20
Philippa and Chloe from Opera Holland Park have popped in to talk about print with Anna.
L’arlesiana at Opera Holland Park
For our July’s Cog night we headed off to see the dress rehearsal of L’arlesiana at Opera Holland Park. Emily gives her take on the evening's entertainment.
18 December ’18
The team from Opera Holland Park have popped in to see us and chat about their new website before they head off to their Christmas party.
8 November ’18
It's training day. We're close to launching the new site for Opera Holland Park.
24 October ’18
Felicity, Chloe and Philippa from Opera Holland Park are in the studio to go through designs for their new site.
25 September ’18
Michael, Anna and Jack are meeting with Felicity and Chloe at Opera Holland Park. It's the first presentation of visuals for their new site.
23 August ’18
Jack and Alex are at Opera Holland Park's headquarters planning their brand new site!
15 August ’18
Felicity, Chloe and Philippa from Opera Holland Park are in the studio to kick off their website project with us.
Rich Mix Since 2018
29 January ’21
Anna had a socially distanced tour of the Rich Mix building today.
An eclectic multi-space arts venue and cinema
Rich Mix website
Culture for a changing city
Rich Mix branding
Happy 28th Cog
To help us celebrate our 28th we’ve thrown a party at Rich Mix for our clients, friends and family. Chief party organiser, Emily gives her take on the evening.
4 October ’18
Anna and Michael are at Rich Mix for the launch of their new season (and branding and website). They took a lot of photos of the lovely new signage.
11 September ’18
The Rich Mix team are here to learn more about the ways their new website is going to make the venue even better than it already is.
3 September ’18
Anna’s been meeting with the two Jens at Rich Mix this afternoon.
20 August ’18
The Rich Mix Jens are here to talk about their new site.
19 July ’18
Drama in venue one at Rich Mix as Jack and Anna prepare to share some initial website concepts with Jen and Eddie.
22 June ’18
It's workshop day at Rich Mix. Michael and Anna worked with a big group of enthusiastic staff, in Venue 1.
18 June ’18
Jack and Michael are visiting our new clients, Rich Mix. They're in the board room, chatting with Eddie Berg and Jen Bartle.
6 June ’18
Jack and Michael are meeting with Jen at Rick Mix for a kick-off meeting about a new website.
Time Share at Rich Mix
The Cog team went to the Rich Mix to watch the UK premiere of Time Share as part of the East End Film Festival.
18 April ’18
Cog Night – we're at Rich Mix to see the film, Timeshare.
The Roald Dahl Museum Since 2023
6 October ’23
Roald Dahl's new website is a real razztwizzler!
22 March ’23
Emma and Nick were at the Roald Dahl Museum today to kick off their new website project.
Royal Exchange Theatre Since 2020
Telling amazing stories in the round
Royal Exchange Theatre
15 February ’24
Nazma was at The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester for a packed press night for Shed: Exploded View
21 September ’23
After an exciting session on Google Analytics, Nazma posed for a staircase selfie with Vicky and Paula at Royal Exchange Theatre.
14 September ’23
Lat night Nazma had a lovely time at the Royal Exchange in Manchester for the Great Expectations press night.
21 July ’23
Royal Exchange Theatre's new site is live!
2 June ’23
Nazma got in early doors to nab the best banquette seat for No Pay? No Way! at Royal Exchange Theatre.
28 March ’23
Today we had the lovely team from the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester down to our studio for a design meeting.
3 November ’22
Nick, Emma and Anna met the Royal Exchange team in Manchester for a workshop.
3 December ’21
Emma travelled to Manchester on Friday and spotted a festive looking Royal Exchange Theatre
Shakespeare North Playhouse Since 2021
8 December ’23
Nick extended his trip in the northwest and popped into Shakespeare North Playhouse to have a catchup with our client, Nathan. Here’s Shakespeare getting into the Christmas spirit.
12 December ’22
Nick took a trip to Prescot to see a Christmas show at the amazing Shakespeare North Playhouse.
Placing the bard's rebellious spirit in Merseyside
Shakespeare North Playhouse
9 November ’21
Nick is back up to see the Shakespeare North Playhouse for a project meeting. Cheers to Shakespeare.
5 November ’21
Anna, Nick & Michael visited the brand new Shakespeare North Playhouse today. Here they are donning their protective gear for a site visit.
Sherman Theatre Since 2021
19 October ’22
Michael's in Cardiff to see the excellent new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Sherman Theatre. He chatted with Ed Newsome and Julia Barry at the post show reception.
9 March ’22
More print has arrived! This time it’s for the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff
29 April ’21
Wonderful workshop in Wales (well, via Zoom).
Soho Theatre Since 2018
Boys on the Verge of Tears at Soho Theatre
Peeling back layers of masculine vulnerability, The Cog Team visited regular haunt Soho Theatre to see a new play for our April Cog Night.
1 May ’24
Nazma spent some time with the Soho Theatre team this morning running a GA4 training session
CAttS at Soho Theatre
May's Cog Night took us to see Frankie Thompson's CAttS, Justin gives us his thoughts and sings thanks for the meowmories!
18 May ’23
Our third launch date in a row, Soho Theatre is live.
3 May ’23
Frankie Thompson's CAttS at Soho Theatre was bonkers but brilliant Cog Night.
Alfie Brown: Sensitive Man 2.0 at Soho Theatre
Our February Cog night saw us back at Soho Theatre, for an evening of introspective stand-up comedy. Nick shares his thoughts.
9 January ’23
Nick and Spencer were at the Soho Theatre offices ready to train them how to use their brand new website.
11 July ’22
Anna popped into Soho Theatre, where the bar was decorated for Pride.
7 April ’22
Anna and Michael are in the Soho Theatre bar, Peter is sketching out the floor plan for their new Walthamstow venue.
Queens of Sheba at Soho Theatre
For our Cog Night we were back at Soho Theatre, catching the award-winning and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Queens of Sheba.
21 February ’22
For this month's Cog Night we're back at the Soho Theatre to catch the Queens of Sheba
Rob Auton at Soho Theatre
For our August Cog Night, we enjoyed ‘Rob Auton: The Time Show’ at Soho Theatre. Nick gives his take on this funny and thoughtful evening.
1 September ’21
Alex has framed the print he bought at our Cog Night to see Rob Auton at Soho Theatre
Soho Social: Mae Martin
Our April Cog Night was an intimate evening with Mae Martin, via Zoom. A chance to watch their Soho Theatre stand-up show 'Us', and an opportunity for us to chat with Mae afterwards. Ed gives his thoughts.
12 November ’20
Jen has just put live a new online checkout for Soho Theatre.
Navigating London’s busiest venue, online
Soho Theatre
2 May ’19
Fleabag has dominated our day. Alex has been looking after Soho Theatre's site and the many thousands of visitors who have rushed to buy West End tickets for the show in August.
Flight of the Conchords at Soho Theatre
When stars of successful TV shows come back after 10 years it's hard not to be cynical.... Would the Flight of the Conchords be making a welcome comeback or cold hard cash-in?
25 January ’18
Becca, Jack and Michael are at Soho Theatre, meeting with Peter and James, celebrating the success of their new website.
27 October ’17
Michael and Ryan are at Soho Theatre for the day, filming clips for their new site. Their team are playing their roles – ticket buyer (Associate Director, Charlotte Bennett) and Sales & Box Office Manager (James Bush)
19 September ’17
Michael's being given a tour of the quirky backstage areas at Soho Theatre. Here are Paul and James in Jess de Wahls's hairdressing room.
22 May ’17
Admiring their work, Anna and Jack take some time out to look at the designs for a new Soho Theatre website, coming soon.
5 May ’17
Peter and James, from Soho Theatre, are here to 'discuss design' for their new website.
17 March ’17
Michael, Jack and Anna were presenting website designs to Soho Theatre this afternoon. So they relocated this week's gin round to the bar.
24 February ’17
A busy day in the studio. Website training with Contact in the meeting room, design presentation with Soho Theatre in the creative room.
8 February ’17
We're running a website workshop at Soho Theatre. Whilst the others were preoccupied, Michael jumped up on the stage to take this photo.
3 February ’17
Michael and Jack are at Spektrix, talking ticketing with our new clients Peter and James from Soho Theatre.
Richard Gadd at Soho Theatre
January's Cog Night was another outing to Soho Theatre, this time to see Richard Gadd's very personal show, Monkey See, Monkey Do. Dan manned-up to review it [with spoiler alerts].
19 January ’17
We're at Soho Theatre for our January Cog Night, that's Richard Gadd peering over our shoulders.
Wilting in Reverse at Soho Theatre
An absurd, surreal and fascinating story delivered through speech, song and dance. A brilliant performance that has you laughing one minute and crying the next.
23 August ’16
For our August Cog Night we're off to see Stuart Bowden's 'Wilting in Reverse' at Soho Theatre: "vigorous dance moves, understandable words and a fair bit of profound (probably life-changing) body movement".
Bears in Space at Soho Theatre
The best thing about Cog nights is that you get to see or do something which you wouldn’t usually choose yourself. So, when a puppet play called ‘Bears in Space’ was suggested, everyone jumped at the chance to see something a bit out of the ordinary.
13 April ’15
Taking advantage of Michael's UK Theatre membership, he and Becca have booked a booth in their 'members' bar' at Soho Theatre. Here's Becca and conductor, Peter Manning talking about the designs for Peter's website.
An Oak Tree at Soho Theatre
Tim Crouch is masterful in this two-person play where only he has previously read the script.
South London Gallery Since 2017
19 December ’23
A particularly pretty Christmas card from our lovely clients at South London Gallery.
5 July ’23
Justin, Lily, Lottie & Yomi attended the preview of "Lagos, Peckham, Repeat" at the South London Gallery.
4 February ’22
Michael and Emily are in the cafe at South London Gallery, chatting websites with Sophie and Maisie.
10 May ’21
Ed's on a virtual lunch time tour of Chris Burden's exhibition '14 Magnolia Double Lamps', led by director of SLG Margot Heller.
Peckham's gallery of world renown
South London Gallery
Hot Pink Turquoise at South London Gallery
Ed enjoyed this perception-bending show at South London Gallery.
27 September ’18
As contributors to South London Gallery's crowd-funding campaign we've received a framed print of their architect's drawing.
3 April ’18
Jack’s at the REcreative editorial board meeting at South London Gallery to chat about websites and how they want to communicate with audiences.
19 March ’18
Jack and Becca meet with the South London Gallery team to talk about their recently launched website
1 February ’18
Anna and Freya from South London Gallery popped in today to chat about designing some new email newsletter templates.
11 January ’18
Jack’s talking websites with Anna at South London Gallery
13 December ’17
Training day. The team from South London Gallery are here for a glimpse at their new site. Becca's teaching them how to add content.
11 September ’17
Emi's here, talking though the specifics of the new site we've designed for South London Gallery.
4 August ’17
The South London Gallery team are here to pour through the details of their new site.
6 June ’17
We're in the middle of a big room at South London Gallery, presenting ideas for a new website.
6 April ’17
Michael and Jack are meeting with the team at South London Gallery
3 March ’17
Michael and Jack have popped-in to South London Gallery to follow up on conversations about their new website.
1 March ’17
Michael, Jack and Matt are at Geffrye Museum, they're leading a workshop as part of South London Gallery's annual away day.
10 February ’17
Cathy and Alice, from South London Gallery, are here to talk to us about their new website project. Our new Bob & Roberta Smith print seemed an appropriate place to pose for a photo.
Wiltshire Music Centre Since 2022
26 October ’23
Wiltshire Music Centre's website is live.
12 June ’23
Nick took to the Wiltshire Music Centre stage to deliver some CMS training...
1 March ’23
Nick took a trip to Bradford on Avon to see our clients at Wiltshire Music Centre, chatting all things design for their brand new website.
14 September ’22
Anna and Nick were with the lovely team at Wiltshire Music Centre
Theatre by the Lake Since 2020
31 August ’23
It s a lovely sunny afternoon and Nazma's client venue tour continues with a visit to Theatre by the Lake.
14 October ’20
Anna is presenting our first designs for a new website for Theatre by the Lake. Everyone seems happy.
29 September ’20
Day 2 of Michael and Anna's Discovery meetings with Theatre by the Lake team in Kewsick. Good social distancing everyone.
28 September ’20
Michael and Anna are in Keswick, running a communications workshop with Rachel Swift and the team at Theatre by the Lake.
Theatre Hullabaloo Since 2017
Theatre with children at the heart
Theatre Hullabaloo
15 November ’17
It's handover day for the Hullabaloo website. Kimberley and Laura are here for a training session with Tom.
25 October ’17
Our studio is full of enthusiastic kids getting photographed for Theatre Hullabaloo's new website.
5 October ’17
Jack was up in Darlington to see Laura and Kimberley at Theatre Hullabaloo about their new website.
9 August ’17
Dan, Jack and Michael are in Darlington for a workshop with the Theatre Hullabaloo team, with special guest Rebecca from the Darlington Hippodrome.
26 July ’17
Jack's with Laura and Kimberley from Theatre Hullabaloo at the Spektrix 'Ginterval' drinks.
21 July ’17
Michael and Jack are in Darlington for the website kick-off Hullabaloo. The new venue is nearly finished.
Tyneside Cinema Since 2020
27 February ’24
Laura's been with Rob at Tyneside Cinema, being shown Spektrix in action.
Capturing Newcastle's cinematic spirit
Tyneside Cinema
18 May ’20
We've launched the second phase of Tyneside Cinema's website and Jen has made her own big red button.
8 November ’19
London Calling. Anna and Jen are on a video call to Newcastle and the lovely people at Tyneside Cinema.
5 November ’19
Jen and Anna are booking tickets to Newcastle for their meetings with Tyneside Cinema.
1 August ’19
Jen and Jack are looking at the newsreel artefacts at Tyneside.
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