This Week’s Design Week is all about Bristol and the South West. And watch this space because there’s more to come over the next few months. Bristol Media has been working hard to get all the key trade press down to the city to meet with its members. Off the back of 0117 and working with our PR agency Corixa, there seems to be genuine interest from all major trade press in finding out more about what our members are up to and all our activity as the city’s creative and media network.

Design Week have spent two full days with Bristol Media over recent weeks meeting members and getting a real ‘behind the scenes’ feel of creative life in the city and not suprisingly they’ve been mightily impressed with what they’ve seen.

Recent sessions with Beef, Ignition DG, Pervasive Media Studio, Spike Island, Reach, Anti VJ, Home, Dirty Design, Oakwood, Duttons, Proctor and Stevenson, Epoch, Open and Mason Zimbler will, we are reliably informed, spawn more positive Bristol Media news. So watch this space.

In the meantime check out this week’s coverage:

Main Bristol feature For whatever reason – a strong local economy, incomer graduates who can’t bear to leave, or freedom from the stresses of life in the capital – the creative sector is thriving in Bristol. Clare Dowdy talks to some of the major players

Editor’s Comment We mustn’t underestimate the power of theregions