We know the website is lacking the attention we are desperate to give it, and our blog has been quiet, but it is for the best possible reason; we have been extremely busy working on some immensely exciting projects for some incredible clients. All of which will be up online when finished or when it is appropriate for us to put there.

There are obvious reasons why the Product Design section of our site will probably remain quiet for a little while longer; confidentiality agreements. The work done here; the Feasibility Reports and User Studies through to the final prototypes and all of the design work in-between is extremely important to the success of our client’s products and will not be published by us until it is appropriate to do so.

We are very excited about the month ahead and very soon hope to be embarking on a project that will involve communities throughout Bristol and as many designers as we can squeeze into one room...Mucho más muy pronto!

Until then we are going to run our monthly ‘Photos of the Month’ post. Yes, what a cliché, but we have some beautiful photographs of our goings-on that we want to share – in one way to prove our activity and in another to show you the fantastic Bristol businesses that have enlisted The Ideas Monster’s design services.

The Ideas Monster team! (Except me of course, somebody had to take the photo). Heidi, Duncan (nice Superman curl!) and Dean outside Rosemarino on their grand opening. Graphics and signage were done by us too!

Here’s George Pickup taking a photo for Dorkbot to work his magic on & draw a portrait, and that’s me (Chris Brooker) standing behind him not working as hard. Taken at our recent Designersblock exhibition: Bristol Air, from which two of our exhibitors have already had work commissioned. A full write up of the event will be coming soon. 

One more from our exhibition at Designersblock, though there are so many stunning photos to chose from thanks to our installation artists Gemma & Tristin, this one shows Monster Duncan Iraci warming up Dorkbot and Neil Ferguson (Bristol Design Festival Director) enjoying the view...of Dorkbot obviously.

The Ideas Monster is currently developing a website for the sublime Hyde & Co bar.

And last but not least as we build their online store an image from inside the stunning Louche Furniture Boutique.