Hill Street
Residents

Computer games company

Alleycats is a Derry based multi award winning TV and film production company, with offices in London and Belfast. We make a range of programming for the likes of the BBC, C4, and RTE, as well as selling internationally. We’ve just finished Helluva Tour, the biggest Advertiser Funded Project that C4 have ever undertaken, and are currently in production on a number of films, including Documentary Feature Project Children.

The First 47 is the studio of Irish graphic designer and artist Alex Synge. The studio specialises in design for print, web and visual identity for a wide range of clients in the cultural, commercial and academic fields. As an artist, he has exhibited work in Dublin, London, Glasgow, Milan, New York, Chicago and LA. His work has been featured in publications such as Semi-Permanent and Faesthetic, as well as online on Booooooom, It’s Nice That and The Fox is Black. He also proudly runs collaborative illustration project Keep Sketch and is a founding member of the 100 Archive.

Animation and Production Studio

A writer and editor with a broad range of skills and interests, Cormac specialises in explaining complicated subjects in straightforward language. His experience in the field began in 2001 with subediting shifts for the Irish edition of the Daily Mirror. Later, he spent five years as an editor and lexicographer at HarperCollins Publishers, where he was latterly head of content for English dictionaries, and five years as a financial copywriter at Martin Currie in Edinburgh. Since going freelance in 2014, Cormac has continued to focus on the financial-services sector but equally welcomes the opportunity to produce clear, engaging copy for clients in other industries.

Clickclick Video Marketing Agency is a video production company which helps companies create compelling visual stories that resonate.

Art including illustration

Eoin O’Shea is a a Chartered Architectural Technologist and runs his CIAT Chartered Practice called PIM Smart.

Art consultancy & art gallery

Product design and development for a non-profit publishing company

Joe Laverty is a Belfast based architectural photographer, who’s understanding of the built environment and ability to capture the essence of space and place has seen him photograph Architecture & Interiors for a number of leading architects across the UK & Ireland.
A portrait photographer as well, Joe is a regular contributor to Freckle Magazine and The Thin Air and has portrait work published in the national press.

Joe also runs the portrait series ‘Humans of the Camino’.

Komodo Learning developed and published an app for teaching young children maths and English.

Magnetised is an internet design and technology company focussed on delivering beautiful solutions to difficult problems.

Author, business columnist, podcast creator

Writing & publishing

Stéphanie Heckman is a creative professional with an academic background in liberal arts psychology, anthropology, sociology, and an MSc degree in strategic leadership for sustainable development. She works internationally as an independent graphic recorder, visual facilitator and illustrator.

Digital Marketing

Belfast-based music magazine and supporter of creative culture