As part of our on-going celebrations, we decided to mark our 20th birthday recently with a big party at Nixon HQ.

It was all hands to the pumps when the big day came,  clearing the office and rigging up lights and a projector as well as having a general tidy up.

We kicked off around 4pm, marked by the arrival of an 80′s Cadillac stretch limo which parked up outside to ‘pap’ people as they arrived.

There was a good turnout from from clients, friends, family and ex-employees alike who all partook liberally of the well-stocked bars and excellent nibbles that came up from the Salt Bar on the ground floor in a seemingly never-ending supply.

Live music was supplied by the Nixonaires and there was even some dancing, although the floor could be felt going up and down in a slightly unnerving fashion! We carried on well into the night, with the last stragglers wending their unsteady way home at around midnight.

We gave everyone a souvenir book – a largely pictorial retrospective view of the last 20 years, including a ‘rogues gallery’ of nearly all the people who’ve worked here over the years.

We thought you might like to see a few choice pictures of the night which Bob Berry, our talented friend of many years, took on the night…

Martin gets 'papped'

Inside the limo

The view from the mezzanine

Kate corners the market on birthday cake

The Nixonaires in full swing

Some employees, past and present

Some great dad dancing...

The Headland Hotel
A fully responsive website working across all platforms. They also do a great cream tea if you’re ever nearby!

University College Falmouth Scratch Magazine
Several paper stock changes, a sponsorship with leading Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni, some beautiful words by Stranger and stunning imagery all packed into Falmouth’s alumni magazine.

We’re 20
Some exciting things are happening this year into next as we celebrate 20 years in the design business. We’ll keep you posted…

University College Falmouth Clearing campaign
Clearing is always a tricky time of year. Our latest campaign in collaboration with Stranger went down a storm with numbers up on the national average.

Una
We were delighted to be chosen to name, brand and strategically lead this new development of eco homes a stones throw from St Ives.

The fantastic It’s Nice That are curating a one day creative workshop with inspirational talks by the likes of Sir Paul Smith, Quentin Jones and Hort amongst others. The design team are heading to London for the weekend to soak it all up. Apparently there’s going to be live elements. My charades act may need a tweak but I feel confident. We’ll report back on how it went next week (the event, not my charades don’t worry).

Responsive Web Design involves using fluid grids and flexible images to enhance a web page for different viewing contexts. Day by day, the number of devices, platforms and browsers that need to work with your site grows. That’s why we need to adapt how the page looks and functions for each format; from a 1600 pixel Desktop computer, down to a 320 pixel Smartphone. Why would you want pages of text on a smart phone? Responsive means we can tailor the user experience.

We’re ensuring that all our future builds are responsive. Take a look at our most recent responsively built site that we created for Luxury Family Hotels.

You’ll see below the main Luxury Family Hotels brochure, a spa and Thornbury Castle brochure as well as promotional flyers for Christmas and New Year breaks at all of Luxury Family Hotels’ eight properties.

Of course The Royal Cornwall is a celebration of all things Cornish, and not purely livestock and tractors. Having said that we really enjoy the more traditional attractions at the show- so for us that means a visit to the poultry, pig and cattle tents via the food tent and the steam fairground.

Nixon tend to mix a little business with pleasure, this year was no exception and we held a party for family and friends to officially launch no less than nine websites, albeit all for the same client- Luxury Family Hotels. It’s been a fantastic project and despite high winds and driving rain (it is a summer show after all) we had a great time. Here’s a pic from the launch with Kate, Diggory, Martin and Peter Holgate from LFH. We’ll be posting some more pics of some of the things that caught our eye at the show soon. You can visit all eight Luxury Family Hotels via the main portal here.