Creativity & Strategy
There's more to us than just good looks.
Explore the smarts that make us tick.
Hard Hat believes in Digital. It's a space we understand and it's a medium we love. We're constantly blown away by Digital's potential to deliver brands direct to consumers and transform the bottom line. Because we get Digital right, clients can look to us for leadership and updates on every industry twist and turn. We see around the corners and fill in the gaps on Digital to give briefs wings and send brands soaring.
It's about applying deeper thinking and insight to develop our client's expectations beyond the basic and into the fantastic. Strategic problem solving is at the heart of the Hard Hat approach, and we go to great lengths to learn your brand and business inside out. Through understanding your objectives and applying crucial industry insights on how the Digital landscape might evolve, Hard Hat delivers solid strategy that seeds amazing creative.
With the right plan, the right choices for creative direction come naturally, and are brought to life by a team of creatives that live and breathe ideas, 24/7. We value creative exploration and place tremendous emphasis on pushing the limits in every area possible, be it integrated strategy, innovative user experience, intuitive interface design or insightful conceptual thinking. Simply put, we genuinely believe in the power of incredible creative to speak volumes and move mountains.
Technology
We'll translate geek-speak into clear results.
Plain & simple.
Hard Hat's view on technology is very simple: technology is an enabler, it allows things to happen but it does not dictate the process. Our independent approach follows that we buck the industry trend and stay clear of using just the one type of language, framework or license heavy platform. This frees us up from having to shoehorn every brief into the capabilities of a single technology and allows us to select the right solution for each brief's unique objective.
For those of you with an appetite for techy acronyms, we work with languages from PHP to Ruby to Python, across frameworks like Rails, Zend and .Net and front-end development technologies such as CSS, HTML 5, Flash and JQuery to name but a few. We can integrate with or lead projects across architectures such as MVC, SOAP or REST, databases such as MySQL, SQLite or Postgres and serving/deployment software from Apache to Nginx, Lighttpd to Capistrano.
Service & Accountability
We'll figure out exactly what you need &
deliver it, just like that.
At Hard Hat, our roots and training stem from traditional 'big' agency thinking. Our hearts however, lie in taking clients by the hand and navigating them through the Digital landscape with personalised service and dedicated accountability.
It's this ambition to constantly shake up redundant processes and find better ways of doing things that sets us apart. By applying a sense of 'what is really right for this client?' we arrive at campaigns that hit the mark on time and on budget. We're about honouring individuality and discovering the right solution, instead of the fashionable solution.
