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The History of Fanatic

Fanatic's growth over 20 years has been organic and in response to a growth in a word of mouth, sustainable demand. It has been driven as much by the skills and ambition of the team to produce great work than it has been about business economics.

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2000

Desktop Fanatic Created a collection of illustrations for PC desktops by Ian as a hobby artwork
2001

Fanatic Design
Started on a coffee table in a flat in Bristol, with a Dell laptop put on a credit card
First Fanatic Brand
A self portrait of a graphic designer doing the mileage with a portfolio under the arm
First Fanatic
Website
2002

Moved to The Tobacco Factory renting a small space from Clik software
Funkiest
iMac
First Designer
A graduate designer was taken on to support Ian with the growing work load
Shell Livewire
Website Local
winner of the
Young Entrepreneur
Award
Fanatic Design Ltd Incorporated
Team is expanded
to 3
2003

Rebrand
new foot print logo
New Website
In the days of the frameset monster!
2004

Best logo placement
on Ian's RS800
Poppy's first
visit at three
weeks old
Lucky to be given
these desks
from Weatherby’s pottery factory in
Stoke on Trent
New Studio Desks
New life for Pottery Decorator’s desks
2005

Move to Loft 3
Took out lease on loft 3 in the Tobacco Factory... exciting times!
team is
now 5
2007

rebrand
New Website
Brand positioning
workshop created
Pantone
Swatch
Men
Appear
Team is now
six
iPhone arrives
changing websites forever
2008

First In House
Front End Web
Builder
Team grows
to seven
Switch to
mobile first
build approach
2010

Established in house Software team for programming, hosting, and support
Created Fanatic
Green Dot CMS
Team is
now eight
2012

Nine people now in
our team
2014

Went into a partnership with a client, IFA publishing to build combined media and design business
Winter Walk
Pen-Y-Fan
10th role
created
within
our team
Digital marketing team established
2015

Rebrand
Studio
Signage
New website
2016

Left partnership
Milly and Ian decide
Fanatic should return
to 100% independant ownership
2017

11th Role created
within our team
2018

Fanatic T-Shirt competition
introduced
Creative Machine
The wall mural
goes up
2019

We "escaped
from the room"
Team now
grown to 14
European Exports In 2019 Fanatic delivered to clients in Brussels, Oslo, Galway, & Dublin
Pacman man arrives
in the studio
New Website
Using our refined
brand positioning

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