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Top Tips for Pricing Your Work with Trish Belford
During Belfast Design Week 2018 we hosted Blick Academy's event, Pricing Your Work. Our facilitator for this event was Trish Belford, a textile designer and Senior Research Fellow at Ulster University. We wanted to share with you some of the...
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Top Tips with The Bearded Candle Makers: Instagram for Your Creative Startup
We had the pleasure of being joined by the wonderful Michael from The Bearded Candle Makers to give us some advice when it comes to using Instagram and how to operate it to best suit your creative business. Michael is...
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An Event with Dillon Osborne
During Belfast Design Week, Blick Faculty are hosting an event with Dillon Osborne on Video For Social Media. Dillon uses edited instagram stories in a vlogging style to share his daily experiences as a photographer and videographer. With over 7000...
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An Interview with Catherine Hatt
Catherine Hatt is our newest resident at our Malone Road studios, she has had a fascinating career creating music and writing within the arts and creative industry. Read on to learn some more about her. Tell us a bit about...
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An Interview with Francesca Biondi
Francesca Biondi is one of our newest residents at our Cotton Court studios, she is an Italian Art Consultant who works to support artists working in different disciplines and medium. We took a few minutes to learn some more about...
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An Event with Joe Laverty and The Design Salon
We're really looking forward to this seasons Quarterly event with The Design Salon. Joe Laverty will be joining to talk about man-made boundaries in our city. Joe Laverty is a Belfast based photographer, who specialises in architecture & the built...
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Residents Rundown: Creating a Space
Residents Rundown is a new Blog Series where we catch up with our current residents, see what they have been up to during their time in Blick Studios and learn about new projects that they're working on. We're talking to...
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Top Tips – Morning Routines with Blick Residents
With all the kids officially back to school, and the mornings getting darker we wanted to address morning routines. What can we do to make each morning just that little bit easier before we head off to work? We asked...
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An Event with The Bearded Candle Makers and Blick Academy
Michael Morris is the founder of The Bearded Candle Markers. He jumped into the business after being inspired by his father who worked for himself running sweet shops, a butcher shop and a Spar. He spent a year testing techniques...
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Quarterly // The Design Salon
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting The Design Salon's new event Quarterly, a curated breakfast inspiration and networking event which has been created in collaboration with Karishma's World and Blick Studios. This event is held 4 times a...
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An Event with Adam Turkington and Blick Faculty
Adam Turkington works at Seedhead Arts, based in Belfast which provides arts consultancy, events management and training services. With twenty years of experience in running events, they established Seedhead to use their skills to build connections and communities; to plant...
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Grass Roots // by Creating a Space
Creating A Space are one of our wonderful residents at our Malone Road studios. Their business includes creative film-making, video production & photography and events management. On 6th September at 8:30pm they are hosting a gig, Grass Roots at the...
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Top Tips to Unwind from Blick Residents
Working for yourself can often lead to bringing your work home with you. The thoughts that you should be picking up emails at 11pm are lingering as you're curled up on the sofa with a book. We got in touch...
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An Interview with Paul McAdams
Paul McAdams is a lighting designer, who started his career in the field while studying English at university. Swiftly deciding that teaching was not the career for him, he threw himself into lighting and has worked on tours and festivals...
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Collaboration
Last week at Blick we hosted 2 great collaborative events. The Womenfolk Breakfast event on Monday morning with She Said Design and The Time is Now event on Tuesday evening with Creating a Space . Collaboration has always been important to...
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The Time is Now – Thoughts from Young Male Creatives
Last week we hosted The Time is Now event with Creating a Space. Our all male panel discussed the issues that young creatives face in the industry from day-to-day, discussing issues such as working part/full-time to support your startup, being...
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Womenfolk Breakfast: Junior.Senior. – What we’ve Learned
At our first Womenfolk Breakfast: Junior.Senior. event with shesaid Design, we heard from our wonderful creatives, illustrator Gemma O'Neill and architect Aisling Rusk from Studio idir. They spoke about the journeys they both undertook to get to the point they...
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Top Tips for Starting Out with Blick Residents
We've got some more wonderful advice in store for you as part of our Top Tips Series. Today we headed to Hill Street to chat to our residents and ask if they could give a few tricks to those who...
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An Interview with Familiar Joy
Founder of Familiar Joy, Jo, is a wedding videographer who graduated from the Screen Academy in Edinburgh three years ago and is enamoured by true life stories. "It's this love of true stories. of the real and authentic, whether famous or hidden...
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An Interview with Gemma O’Neill
Gemma O'Neill is one of our most recent new residents, she has recently moved from her home on the Causeway Coast to Belfast and is based in our Cotton Court studios at Cathedral Quarter. We had a chat to learn...
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Top Tips for Productivity with Blick Residents
To continue our 'Top Tips for Creatives' series we visited our Cotton Court Residents to share some of the best ways they stay productive. Flight Mode - Martin: Construction Workshop Put your phone on flight mode, this stops you from checking...
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Tips and Tricks for Building your Business with a Newsletter
We had an absolute blast with Sarah Patterson from Little Pink Kitchen this week as she shared her tips and tricks for success with email marketing and newsletters. And we wanted to share it with you all! Why should you...
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An Interview with Creating a Space
Creating a Space is a company run by Esther Mogada and James Gitari. They are the newest residents of our Malone Road Studios. Creating a Space is a company that work in filmmaking, photography, music production, video production and events...
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Flock – It’s Time for Something Different
Flock is a sister company to Blick that we have set up to provide services for those seeking help with creative projects, such as events pop-ups workshops festivals digital platforms Flock will provide collaborative opportunities and experience for creative entrepreneurs...
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An Event with Little Pink Kitchen and Blick Academy
The Little Pink Kitchen is a website, where you can order lunch to be delivered to your desk. It is run by Sarah Patterson who has three interests in life. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. She organises pop-up breakfasts in her...
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10 Top Tips to Make Connections and Build Your Network with Blick Academy
On Tuesday night, Blick Academy hosted the event 'How to Make Connections and Build Your Network', with speakers Peter Edgar, Mark O'Donnell and Orla McGreevy. We wanted to take the opportunity to share with you the wonderful advice that they...
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An Interview with Clare Hogg of Element Pictures
Clare Hogg one of our newest residents here at Blick Studios, she is the Development and Production Executive for Element Pictures, an Irish film and television drama production company and an independent film distribution company. We had a little chat with...
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An Interview with Out of Orbit on their new feature, ‘The Dig’
Blick Residents, Out of Orbit held a Gala Screening for their feature film, The Dig, written by Stuart Drennan from Wolfhound Media (another Blick Resident!) on the closing night of the Belfast Film Festival. We caught up with Brian Falconer...
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5 Top Tips for Starting Out as a Creative Entrepreneur
Our Blick Residents had plenty of advice to offer us, we could go on all day! But here's five top tips for starting out as a creative entrepreneur. 1) “Teach yourself self—discipline; don’t allow yourself get sucked into the Social...
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An Interview with Jaume Giralt of Desde Studio
Jaume is the founder of Desde Studio, a design studio that specialises in visual and user interface design, branding and web development. We caught up with him to tell us more about his business and about his relocation from Spain to...
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Small Town Big Dreams: Launch and Live Podcast
Small Town Big Dreams is our newest collaborative project, a new podcast that tells the stories of NI creative entrepreneurs. For this project we have been working with multi-disciplinary design Karishma Kusurkar and comedy promoter Graeme Watson. For it’s launch...
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