NOMON DESIGN celebrates 15 years

We are celebrating 15 years thanks to the knowledge and experience, which our partners and collaborators have contributed with, but, above all, because of the confidence that our clients have placed in us.

We are celebrating 15 years during which design has been (and still is) intrinsic to our raison d’être, our way of thinking and acting.

We have completed 15 years in which we have developed our own working method, based on our knowledge and experience advising companies from different sectors, mainly SMEs.

We are celebrating 15 years knowing that we have the ability to reinvent ourselves and learn from major economic crises, and even a pandemic, to move forward.

We are turning 15 and there is much to celebrate.

More than 15 years since the beginning of NOMON DESIGN

When Sisón Pujol was asked as a child what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always surprised everybody with her response: “When I grow up I want to be a SME.” Of course, at that early age she did not even know what it meant to be an SME.

But her answer had an explanation. Her grandfather was a pastry chef and her father started a small family business dedicated to cookie making. So while her classmates’ parents were doctors, carpenters, teachers or had a farm or a store, hers started a brand new SME.

Understanding the actual living experience of having a SME has marked the professional career of Sisón Pujol, founder and CEO of NOMON DESIGN.

After graduating in Graphic Design at the EINA school in Barcelona, ​​Sisón moved to Basel (Switzerland) in 1989 where she began her professional activity working as a freelancer.

In 1992, back in Barcelona, ​​she created her own graphic design studio: SISÓN STUDIO. This was the beginning of a professional career characterized by her strong relationship with a number of small and medium-sized companies in our country’s very diverse business fabric.

With the aim of turning her business strategy around and depersonalizing her own project, NOMON DESIGN was born in 2006.

15 years driving business growth through design

“The art piece is as important as the shadow that it casts”, the great sculptor Eduardo Chillida once declared, adding “I believe in the Greeks’ gnomon, which was the discovery of the angle which a person casts with their shadow”.

NOMON (gnomon), of Greek origin (meaning guide or teacher), is the sundial of the solar clock that marks the passage of time with its shadow.

To Chillida we owe our naming. And also our passion for space, time and silence. But, above all, our passion for symmetry.

NOMON is a palindrome that reads the same from left to right as from right to left.

NOMON, with two O’s that act as two open eyes for keen observation, for thought, as we create through the eyes of our clients and their consumers.

Photography: guggenheim-bilbao.eus

Putting ourselves in the shoes of our clients, with our bag full of corporate values: creativity, design, pragmatism, honesty and sustainability has led us to be a driving force of growth behind over 179 clients from various sectors, since 2016.

We have developed more than 570 branding strategy, art direction, product design, editorial design, communication, digital communication and retail branding projects.

Remarkably, 6 of our current clients have relied on our services for more than a decade. Miquelrius, Apli, Aridi, Bra, ICEX and Lékué, banking on design, not only as a formal resource, but as a competitive advantage capable of catalysing opportunities for change and generating new business models.

15 years of a very professional, responsible and committed team

During the last 15 years, more than 40 professionals have been part of our team. Together, we have created our own identity, which reflects a way of doing and being, but also our own way of working.

In addition to commitment, talent and responsibility, we are a team made up of 18 professionals characterized by the fact that 89% of us are women. Since we have very little labour turnover, on average a typical employee stays at NOMON for 9 years.

But the NOMON family is much larger and has also grown in parallel over all these years: up to 18 children have been born during these 15 years and have been and are our driving force to continue working for a more sustainable and committed NOMON.

15 years adding value to the sector and bringing its reality closer to future professionals

Since the end of 2020, Sisón Pujol and Esther Agustench –creative director and partner at NOMON– are respectively the president and vice president of the Board of Directors at the Association of Art Directors and Graphic Designers (ADG-FAD).

Previously, and for almost 10 years, Sisón and Esther had also actively participated in the Board of Directors of the ADP (Association of Professional Designers).

Their project at the ADG-FAD revolves around one of NOMON’s mottos: Design as a transformation engine towards a more social-friendly and sustainable society.

This is also the idea that we put forward and share with future professionals in our collaborations with schools and universities (internships, seminars, masterclasses, tutorials and / or TFG evaluations).

We support all the initiatives that promote the presence of professionals in classrooms since we consider that it is essential that we reinvest our knowledge and bring the business reality to students.

In addition, we are part of other institutions in the sector such as the BCD, and we are ACCIÓ-approved consultants to help generate business growth through design solutions.

We are celebrating 15 years and we are determined to celebrate many more.