The Founder

VividContext was founded by Designer and Internet Strategist, Myles Bennett Bristowe and creates for clients informed solutions that deliver measured results.

Myles began his Internet career in the meat deli of a tiny grocery market in Wilmore, Kentucky. In order to promote some great lunch specials, he had drawn a picture of a hotdog and hamburger with crayon on deli paper. The sign caught the eye of a local potter who told his primary investor about the "guy at the deli". The investor was a successful businessman who owned a database of every thoroughbred horse that had ever lived. Later that day, the businessman came to the deli to see the hotdog and hamburger sign for himself. Right there on the spot the businessman said, "You should work for me."

On Monday morning, Myles traded his deli apron and pricing gun for a necktie and a desktop computer. He had no prior Internet experience, but learned quickly and Myles soon designed his first-ever corporate Website for Lynx and the Mosaic browsers. Over the next few months, the site would be redesigned again to take advantage of the features available in the new Netscape Navigator. The boss started other online businesses and when modem speeds went up to 14.4, Myles got to play with all the new widgets such as: animated GIFs, page counters and frames. Yipee!!

Just as the "dancing baby" was hitting the height of his success, Myles joined a video production start-up called The Creative Group. He boot-strapped a Website design department for them and together they serviced businesses such as Lexmark, Trane Air-conditioning and The Salvation Army.

Upon moving his family back to the Bay State, Myles started a Web design department within a business called Advanced Business Technology (ABT). By late 1997, they had also developed a content management application, which was provided to clients when launching a new Web site. In 1998, ABT merged with a larger firm in Providence, Rhode Island.

Next, Myles co-founded a new Website design and development company known primarily for user-interface design, information architecture and target audience analysis. By this time, Myles was responsible for the designs of over a hundred corporate Web sites.

Today, as founder of VividContext, Myles uses the benefit of more than a dozen years of Web site design experience to create online communities that deliver results for his clients.