About Us
MessageSpace Creative is a meeting of minds, of two great talents. No, really. Having initially met at 18 Doughty Street (whilst Mike was working and Chris was being a pundit), it was in a very fine cocktail bar—the ex-public toilet known as Cellar Door—that Chris and Mike first realised that they could—nay, should—work together.
Mike's talent for deep coding and abiding enthusiasm for new technologies was the perfect foil to Chris's artistic flair and world-weary cynicism. It was a meeting of minds and of talents. Which is where we started.
Mike Rouse
Mike Rouse
Director
A Coventrian and proud of it, Mike left Alderman Callow School and Community College in 1999 to embark on a number of jobs until, in 2006, he decided that enough was enough and it was high time to set up his own business.
Since then, things have sky-rocketed. Mike is a private consultant with 18 Doughty Street Talk TV and designs websites for a multitude of clients. He also acts as a Technology Head for the Young Britons’ Foundation and was nominated for the New Statesman New Media Awards in the Young Innovator category.
Mike blogs about technology and related matters, and has appeared as a new technology pundit on Sky News on a number of occasions.
Chris Mounsey
Chris Mounsey
Designer
Chris Mounsey is a freelance graphic designer for print and web, PR adviser and copywriter. Born in London and brought up in Kent, Chris lived in Edinburgh for ten years before moving back down to London last year.
Chris has been a professional designer in the print industry for over a decade, cutting his teeth as a designer in small Edinburgh printhouses. He has been writing code and designing websites for five years, after he was head-hunted by a small web development firm.
Chris has honed his writing skills over the last few years, and his copy has appeared, in one form or another, in The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Scottish Herald, The Scotsman, The Kent on Sunday, and also in The Big Red Book Of New Labour Sleaze and The Guide To Political Blogging In The UK 2007. He has also written theatre and comedy reviews, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for both Three Weeks and EdinburghGuide.com.
Chris has also written essays for the journalist-reviewed Wanabehuman blog and guest-posted at Stephan Shakespeare's 18 Doughty Street blog, as well as appearing regularly on 18DS's internet TV channel (where he met Mike).