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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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An interview with Feargal O’Kane from BT48 : Work, Life and The beauty of open source software
Long-time Blick residents BT48 have been working on lots of exciting projects over the last few years. We caught up with BT48's Feargal O'Kane at our Malone Road studios to find out more about their company and some of the...
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Womenfolk : Introducing our guest blog PLUS a brand new profile
We are excited to be continuing our Womenfolk project beyond March and to add a brand new feature - a guest blog! We are getting our design entrepreneurs to share their stories, tips and experiences with a new guest blogger...
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Go Girl Zine Making Workshop : Collaborative, Creative, D.I.Y.
We were excited to come into our Malone Road HQ to find a lovely zine waiting for us - courtesy of Go Girl who hosted the zine-making workshop at Blick on the 25th March! "We had the best time crafting and catching...
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Womenfolk Week 5: Our final week of design entrepreneur highlights in March!
We have been recapping "Womenfolk" profiles throughout March week by week. We have covered one design entrepreneur in an interview-profile each day in areas including Illustration, Architecture, Fashion, Interiors, Animation, Education & Product Design. We have covered designers in the...
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Womenfolk Week Four: More design stories, tips and tricks!
We have interviewed some more amazing designers over the last few days! These are our highlights from the past week of Womenfolk profiles! Our profiles 20-26 are: Hunter Paper Co. - "Honestly, just get to work and do it. It sounds cliche, but...
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The Burning Question: A Question of Design
We can't wait for our *Sold Out* event "The Burning Question" coming up next Tuesday at The Black Box Belfast (sign up for the waiting list) and featuring host Graeme Watson interviewing 3 design speakers: Paul Ryding, Anita Murphy &...
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Womenfolk: Week Three of highlights from women design entrepreneurs!
Thanks to everyone that has participated and contributed to Womenfolk so far and we cannot wait until the end of this month to hear from our brilliant speakers in Belfast & Derry-Londonderry! These are our highlights from Week Three of...
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Womenfolk : Week Two design entrepreneur profiles and highlights
We have been overwhelmed by the interest and support shown towards Womenfolk so far! A big thank you to everyone that has contributed so far as well as those that are championing our project, sharing it and talking about it....
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Creative Business Bootcamp supports up and coming startups!
A big thanks to Christopher Murphy for running an enjoyable and successful Creative Business Bootcamp. At Blick, we are always looking to encourage and inspire new creatives to start their own ventures and we felt this was an ideal even to help...
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Late Night Design: our first ever!
We were excited to organise the first Late Night Design last week (Thursday 2nd March) in Belfast city centre. The event was in conjunction with Belfast Design Week and supported by Creativity NI. We visited Blick Shared Studios, Little Thunder Co.,...
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#itsfailures in our Malone Road Studios
We are excited to be showing some of the work from the #itsfailures project by Linda Byrne from Humble Establishment. Linda is a designer-maker / artist / curator / many things! & is involved in many exciting creative projects engaging...
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Womenfolk : The first 5 designer profiles!
Last week saw the launch of Womenfolk - a brand new venture by Blick with support from Creativity NI. We are also hosting a talk and forum on 31st March. You can find out more about it and book a...
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Share 6: Going against the grain
We had a brilliant time at Share 6: Going Against The Grain last night with speakers Jan McCullough, Ellie Niblock, Aaron Guthrie, Martina Scott, Katrina Taggart & David Kane! Some of the highlights from the night: Personal projects are worth...
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An interview with Out of Orbit
Out of Orbit is a production company based in our Blick Shared Studios, Malone Road, Belfast. The team consists of producers Brian J. Falconer and Christopher Myers as well as writer and director Jon Beer. We chatted with Out of...
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2016 Highlights : Looking back at a creative year!
Can you believe it? 2016 is nearly over! We're looking back at some of our highlights over the past year and toasting to 2017. We hope you have a wonderful year ahead full of new adventures in life and in...
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An interview with William Barr from Billygoat Entertainment
We were excited to hear that Videogame Developers and Blick Malone residents Billygoat Entertainment had released their brilliant new adventure game HM Spiffing. We caught up with director William to get the latest on all things Billygoat and here's what...
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