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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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An Interview with Kristina Byrne of Yö-Yö Bags
Kristina Byrne is one of our newest residents of our Hill Street Studios. She recently moved to Belfast from Mexico and is working on a prototype for Yö-Yö Bags, eco-friendly yoga bags made with leather from pineapples. We caught up...
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The History of Hill Street Studios
46 Hill Street is one of our two Cathedral Quarter Studios based in the Belfast city centre. Hill Street was first depicted on a Belfast map in 1757 that was originally named Pott-House Lane. The narrow and cobbled street runs...
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The History of Cotton Court Studios
Cotton Court is the location that Blick Studios most recently moved into, it houses eight desk spaces as well as four private offices. Cotton Court is part of a Managed Workspace building, which operates in the Cathedral Quarter with a...
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An Interview with Jayne Lindsay Photography
Jayne Lindsay is a Wedding Photographer based in Belfast/Ballymena who stylises her work as timeless, intimate and emotive. She loves to create imagery that is artful, painterly with an editorial edge and has a very relaxed approach with couples with the ability...
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An Interview with Geoff Smyth from FrankaNora Ltd
Geoff Smyth is one of our newest residents, a data analyst for FrankaNora Ltd. He has taken a bit of time to tell us about his career so far and his move to Blick Studios. Tell us a bit about...
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Womenfolk – The Time is Now – Creativity Month 2018
There has long been a disparity between the number of men and women involved in Design and Entrepreneurship. The Time is Now is an interactive panel discussion on encouraging female entrepreneurship within young female designers in Northern Ireland. We will...
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Tips and Tricks for Tax Returns with Rosy James
As the tax returns loomed last month we hosted Tax Returns and Book Keeping Systems with our very own Rosy James who advised attendees about the best ways to get on board and ahead of schedule. She has kindly taken...
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Perfect Your Work-Life Balance: Chapter 2
Architect, Will Thornton has been a resident at Blick Studios for just under two years. He has become renowned around the studios for his incredible work-life balance and is constantly taking on fun projects outside of work for him and...
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Perfect Your Work-Life Balance: Chapter 1
Being self-employed can mean that it’s sometime hard to pull yourself away from either your work or your family. To give you a helping hand we’ve got 4 tips on how to perfect your work-life balance. 1. Work smarter, not...
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An interview with Karishma Kusurkar
Blick Studios resident, Karishma Kusurkar is an independent, multi-disciplinary, designer based in Belfast and founder of Karishma's World. She recently featured in Irish News, discussing Belfast Design Week, which she co-founded and her most recent project, Espionage. Karishma designs and...
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Design Startup – Belfast Design Week
Belfast Design Week are all about creating new projects and businesses. Design Startup was a 3-day series of practical business skills workshops to help generate ideas, take ideas to the next level and help startups take their products and services to market....
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Belfast Design Week – Late Night Design
Late Night Design is a design industry event where we visited a variety of local design studios and heard the design journeys of some of the designers working within the studios to inspire and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship within the...
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Belfast Design Week: Share 6
Share 6 is an event that Blick Studios is hosting as part of Belfast Design Week. At each Share 6 event, we invite 6 designers to join us and tell their story for 10 minutes, based on a specific theme....
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Blick Shared Studios, 51 Malone Road: A Listed Building
This year we received a review of our studios at 51 Malone Road by The Department for Communities who is currently surveying all buildings of architectural or historical interest. Therefore, we thought we would give you a bit of information...
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An interview with Alkaa
Michael and Sharon are our graduate residents who run Alkaa, a multidisciplinary Graphic Design agency that specialises in Branding, Identity and Illustration. Willing to take up any creative challenge that comes their way, their key business aims are to be...
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5 Creative Ways To Have Your Say
This year Belfast Design Week is hosting a Refugees Welcome event, and are asking creatives to design a t-shirt to show support to refugees in Northern Ireland. We wanted to have a look at some popular designs from rallies and...
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An interview with Piera Cirefice Illustration
Piera Cirefice is an Irish illustrator, who recently graduated from Falmouth University. She has a passion for the outdoors which fuels her work with travel reportage. Piera helps to capture living landscapes through the use of watercolours and sketching. She...
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Design Startups, this one’s for you!
We are excited to be working on a number of events for design startups for Belfast Design week 2017 and these are a few we wanted to share with you: Design Startup: Build Your Own - 3 days of workshops...
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An interview with The Holding Project
The Holding Project seeks to build 20 compact, eco-friendly micro-homes in Belfast for young people. As the millennial generation become trapped in private rented accommodation for the long term, the project hopes to offer an alternative form of housing as...
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The Art of the Comic at Culture Night Derry-Londonderry
We were excited to bring "The Art of the Comic" to our Eighty81 Creative Workspace in Ebrington, Derry-Londonderry last week. Revolve Comics and Siobháin from Eighty81 curated the space and people just loved it - here's some proof! “Big shout...
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The Art of The Comic launches this evening at Blick Malone!
It's finally here! We can't wait to showcase "The Art of the Comic" here at our Blick Malone Studios. Join us from 6pm today for a cracking exhibition and pop-up! In the meantime, here is a video that one of...
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The Time is Now! A collaborative event by Blick & Inspire The Sound
Join us on Monday 26th June, 6.30pm at the Black Box Belfast for "The Time is Now" a brand new collaborative event by Blick and Inspire The Sound. Book your ticket here. Here's a bit about it and our fantastic panel...
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Share 6: Fashioning the future – Event highlights and photographs
We were thrilled to have 7 local fashion industry speakers join us yesterday evening for Share 6: Fashioning the Future covering the topics of PR, Photography, Process, Studio, Bespoke, Blogging and Accessories. We heard from emerging and established design speakers...
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