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On your bike son!
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Are you looking for a challenge this year with the benefit of the knowledge you’re raising money for a worthwhile charity? The British Heart Foundation is holding its long-running South Downs Way (SDW) Challenge on 25 July 2009 and Mixd is pleased to announce that Phil will be stretching his legs and representing Mixd at the event (I have offered to drive the support vehicle and be on standby with a flask of tea and some biscuits).
The SDW is just over 100 miles from Winchester to the western edge of Eastbourne. There is no real technical riding (it’s down south after all!) although there is plenty of scope to fall off(!) and there are some serious hills along the way. So it’s most definitely an endurance event and a steady pace that can be sustained for 100 miles is required!
So if you would like to join Phil on the day please get in touch… he would be more than happy for some company! However, if (like me) you’d rather be following his Tweets as he progresses along the way from the comfort of your sofa then you can show your support by sponsoring Phil at: www.justgiving.com/mixd
Matt strengthens the growing Mixd team
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Full service creative agency Mixd welcomes new recruit Matt to the web design and development team at the studio in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Matt spent his first days at Mixd at the beginning of 2009, working with the team for a couple of days a week… he has already settled in well and served his time on a number of Mixd projects. When the vacancy became available, he was the obvious choice and should take to his full-time role like a duck to water. Matt joins Mixd as an Interactive Developer, specialising in ‘bells and whistles’ and all things digital.
Phil Shackleton, partner at Mixd commented, “We’re delighted that Matt has chosen to join the team here at Mixd. He has considerable experience of developing technical solutions, gained within an agency environment, and has previously worked with many blue-chip brands including Howies. I have no doubt he will be an asset to the agency. Plus, he doesn’t drink tea or coffee, so that’s one less brew to make when it’s my round”.
Mike Danford, partner at Mixd commented, “When do you ever make the brews Phil?”
Here’s to a successful future with Mixd and it’s good to know that even in the current ‘economic downturn’ (not my words, I heard them on the news), it’s onwards and upwards…
Not worth a nickel
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
New plans to brighten up Mixd HQ with the introduction of a ‘work wall’ that would allow the design team to display creative concepts was scuppered this afternoon.
The plan was simple: “Let’s get a sheet of stainless steel and use magnets to hold the work up”. One quick call to a local steel fabricator and within a couple of days our sheet of shiny metal arrived. It’s lovely, although the magnets don’t stick to it.
Now… having been taught at school that things are either magnetic or they’re not, we were pretty comfortable that stainless steel was. Oh no, how silly.
A quick bit of research on Google has informed us that stainless steel is a ‘ferritic’ structure and therefore magnetic, unless it has a large proportion of nickel (there must be loads in our sheet) making it ‘austenitic’… of course. If only Mr Rees had taught us that.
Right… anyone want a massive sheet of non-magnetic stainless steel?
Or have any suggestions of what we can do with it? Clean answers only please.
Get a good education
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
A key feature of the BA(Hons) Graphic Design Programme at York College is its involvement with Design experts from industry. Phil Shackleton and Mike Danford from creative group Mixd have worked with the students as creative consultants on projects including Brand Creation, Promotion and Interactive Design.
“The experience has been of immense value for the students” said Programme Leader Alan Preston, “The presentation by Mixd was inspirational and the knowledgeable input from Phil and Mike gave students a greater insight into working as design professionals within the creative industries.”
If you know of an educational establishment that may wish to enhance their curriculum by working with creative professionals, please contact Mixd
Mixd gives Bob a job
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Mixd would like to give a warm welcome to the new guy, beardy Bob (his name’s Bob Tait and he has a beard). We think a group hug is in order; mind you, Bob’s girlfriend Vic knows that when it comes to the hugging stakes, no one is quite like Bob!
Bob’s role in the team will be as Producer; making sure the left hand knows what the right hand is doing and ensuring that the legs are going in the same direction… forward.
It’s no surprise that Bob’s career path (if a little wavy at times) has taken him onwards to be an organiser, a project manager… a producer. Bob makes things happen, always has… guess he always will. It’s not just in his career that he makes sure things come together well, scrap that, superbly. From the early years of playgroup projects through to the current day with cricket club events and his gigging rock n’ roll band, Bob has always been instrumental (he’s actually a vocalist, but it’s a turn of phrase).
In his professional life, Bob has safely and smoothly overseen numerous creative projects to fruition for many high profile organisations, including the Department of Trade and Industry, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Learning and Skills Council, the National Trust and the University of Leeds.
Oh, by the way, he loves music, the great outdoors and his garden …and quite fancies keeping chickens.
Mixd creative web design – Harrogate?
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
When Mixd opened its doors in Harrogate for the first time at the start of 2009, it heralded the arrival of a new creative force in the North Yorkshire spa town. Mixd is an exciting young business which started in Northallerton in 2004; but why the move to Harrogate?
Partner, Phil Shackleton, says, “We’re delighted to have made this move. Harrogate is an ideal location to service our existing client base plus the town’s travel and leisure connections are a great fit with our growing specialism in this sector.” Phil continues, “We’re expecting this move to provide a great springboard for the next stage of Mixd’s growth. Plus our firm desire to be a ‘green’ business is greatly helped by the fact that most of the Mixd team are now able to cycle to work every morning!”
There you have it. Now you know.
New year, new office and new website! Whatever next?
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
New year, new you… so they say. Well, here at Mixd, we’ve really gone to town on all things new. Whilst we can’t really take any credit for the new year, we must say how delighted we are with both our new physical home (a stone built period property set in a beautiful, leafy Harrogate street) and our new virtual home (on the world wide web which, in our mind’s eye, is leafy and beautiful too).
We throw open an invitation for you to visit both whenever you like… which one you visit is up to you. The office is but a stone’s throw* away from the Harrogate International Conference Centre, the focal point of this lovely town, and you’ll find a warm welcome Monday to Friday, 9 ’til 5.30. You can of course, visit the website wherever you find internet access, 24 hours a day… the only drawback being you’ll have to make your own brew (although anyone who has tasted one of Phil’s coffees will probably see this as very much a positive).
*please don’t throw stones, it’s dangerous and can have someone’s eye out (it’s even worse if you live in a glass house, so we’re told).
Follow Mixd on Twitter
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
If you just can’t get enough of us here, we’re also now broadcasting out into the Twittersphere. If you’re not in the know, Twitter is a microblogging service that makes it easy to keep up with your favourite people (hopefully us) on multiple networks and devices. Consider it Mixd’s ‘breaking news’… but not always as serious as news type stuff.