Making things better since 1985
1985 is a small but perfectly formed Milton Keynes based creative studio. We design for web and print, we build websites on popular frameworks and from scratch. We help small businesses define who they are, where they’re going, and how they can finely tune their image to make an impact. We write big words… in a simple way.
Richard Monk
Richard is a creative thinker, designer for web & print and front-end developer.
Over the past 8 years he has worked in the design and marketing industry as a Creative at JustGiving (London, the UK’s biggest charity fundraising site), Designer and Front End Developer at Global Personals (Windsor) and Head of Creative at Rocket (Brighton).
Richard lives and breathes creative media, with a fascination for brand identity, a great eye for detail, and a finger on the pulse of the constantly evolving online marketing landscape.
Nicola Andrews
Nicola studied Japanese language and Linguistics with Tourism Management and Marketing and has spent the last five years writing about everything and anything.
Nicola has worked with a range of clients, both in the UK and Japan, specialising in web writing and web content strategy. Subject-wise her portfolio is very eclectic, ranging from art and design to organic cuisine.
Nicola is an excellent communicator, strong strategic and conceptual thinker. She knows solid ways to optimise copy to drive traffic through natural search. Nicola can also provide advice on getting your own content strategy together, because planning is pretty important too.
Stay Agile
Please don’t think of us as an agency – we like to think that we’re much more agile than that. We’ve built up a great network of amazing professionals over the last few years: from web developers to content strategists and print managers, that we know and love. We know they do great work, so we keep going back to them. That’s the great thing about working collaboratively, it means we can pull together a team that has all the right talent to get a project up and running, fast.
More than anything, we like to work with small to medium sized businesses, because we know that you’re agile too. We know that everything can change in the space of a day, and that the world doesn’t stop at the weekend. We know you put your life and soul into your business and that you want to tell the world about it, and we’d love nothing more than to help you tell your business’ story through the power of better, more thoughtful, and more creative work.
