Our clients LYR have been in the news recently. Take a look at this great clip from ITN.

Happy Christmas from FoxLand.

Next year, at your next meeting about your website, application, platform or world-changing service, whip out FoxLand’s Amazing Christmas World-Wide-Web Jargon Bingo and play!

In the meantime, have a great Christmas and New Year from all of us at FoxLand.

The beautiful image was originally from an 1861 edition of The Illustrated London News and was digitised by MAPCO.
Take a look at the full image on the MAPCO website where you’ll find many other beautiful maps and images…

We’re thrilled to announce that Calum and his wife Sally gave birth to Casper Sammy Land on the 15th of July. They’re all doing fantastically well and are enjoying every moment. Calum is loving his paternity leave (possibly a bit too much according to his twittering) and is already indoctrinating Casper with obscure Liverpool Football Club lore. While Hampstead is a much quieter place with his absence, we’re all looking forward to him being back next week (although I think he is possibly less enthused).

At long last, we present the new FoxLand. We’ve completely rethought our identity, message and website. Our old identity and website were built very quickly when we first launched as a company in 2006, and while it served us well, we felt it was too restrictive, did not accurately represent us, and was, well… too red.

The website is in beta, and there are still a few rough edges out there. If you come across any, or have any problems, please do get back to us. In particular, if you are using Internet Explorer 6 we’d love to hear your experiences. We’ll be tweaking and updating the website over the next few days and weeks, improving it and adding necessary features.

As part of our website redesign we have completely rethought our case studies, in particular our featured examples. Currently we just have featured case studies for The Prince’s Charities, BSI and Macmillan Cancer Support, but over time we will add more.

Over the next few weeks we will add journal posts talking about some of the reasoning, thinking and inspiration behind our changes — so stay tuned.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that on 4th March 2009 Andrew’s partner Meadbh gave birth to a beautiful little girl called Charlotte Sóirse Metrustry-Fox aka just Sóirse. Mum, dad and daughter are all doing really well and are ecstatically happy.

Sóirse is already following in dad’s footsteps and we’re sure it won’t be long before she’s typing her first bit of code. In the mean time she’s keeping mum and dad busier than our clients ever have.

We’re a bit late, after all she joined us a couple of months ago, but we’d like to welcome our newest recruit, the wonderful web designer Inayaili (thankfully she’s happy being called simply Lili). Inayaili came all the way from Faro, Portugal to join us and she is still getting used to the “freezing” English weather and London’s public transport. She loves making beautiful, clean, hand coded websites, and, as she says, it is done “always with a bit of love”. 

One of the main reasons that appealed to us about her was that she is thoroughly engaged with the web, its citizens and where it might be going next. Inevitably then you can find her all over the internet – on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Flickr, Friendfeed, Dopplr… everywhere!

She has also just been nominated as one of the web’s 25 hottest female web designers - a slightly dubious concept – but we’re proud anyway!