What we've been up to over the last few months
Today marks Chris Holmes’ 10th year here at Nixon. To celebrate we’ve all been out for a nice meal at the Sandsifter at Godrevy Beach where Martin and Chris first spoke about Chris coming to work at Nixon.
In true Hayle style we’ve even put up a ‘little’ sign in the office window to let the world know about Chris’ monumental achievement.
We’ve just become the lead design agency for Sharp’s Brewery and we’re absolutely thrilled!
This is what Sharp’s joint Managing Director had to say: ”We set ourselves the objective of finding a top class design company in Cornwall. By restricting our search just to Cornwall the worry was that we would need to compromise. With Nixon there is no compromise, I am sure that we have found one of the UK’s best design companies on our doorstep in Cornwall.”
Oh, and here’s an insight into behind the scenes at the brewery:
We had some fun last week, there we were at The Royal Cornwall Show celebrating two new websites we’ve designed and developed – The Lost Gardens of Heligan and The Atlantic Blanket Company. We drank fizz, had a couple of launch parties and chatted with lots of happy clients. Check out our pictures…
ICE otherwise known as Inspired Cycle Engineering selected us last year to define their core values and create a new brand identity; this we did and had a lot of fun in the process.
One of the leading exponents of recumbent cycling, they asked us to rebrand the company so as to broaden its appeal as far as possible and reposition it at the forefront of the market.
We also designed a brand new website incorporating the rebrand and helping the company achieve its goals. The site was then built by the very talented team at Buzz .
The great news is that all our efforts and not least their investment in design has paid off handsomely, as Ben Rotheray from ICE explains:
“Good design is a good investment; our new branding and website have helped us double our sales. Nixon’s clear methodology helped us develop a great brand look and feel which all the team bought into. Our rebranding project has supported our new product positioning which has helped us to grow the business and drive incremental revenue.”
I recently attended the Future of Web Design conference in London and found it be be educational, very inspiring and above all great fun!
The conference talks covered a broad range of topics including HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Web analytics, iPhone app development and sessions on running a successful web design agency. All of these sessions were given by experienced and industry leading professionals so in geek terms it was liking hanging out with celebrities.
I’m sure I will be going on about the conference for a long time and no doubt that as I watch back the talks that were recorded and supplied to attendees I will be blogging about it a lot more. For now though here are some pictures I took whilst at the conference!
