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Activision Blizzard

Computer games company

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Alley Cats Films

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.

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Alex Synge / The First 47

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.

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Aoife Ni Thuama Keogh

Product Designer, mainly working on digital products across multiple airlines. In addition to her product design role Aoife co-owns an online magazine store called Iris

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Boulder Media

Animation and Production Studio

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C McKeown Copywriting & Editorial Services

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.

Click Click Video Marketing Agency

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

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Emma Hall

Art including illustration

Eoin O’Shea

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

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Francesca Biondi

Art consultancy & art gallery

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Jane O'Donoghue

Product design and development for a non-profit publishing company

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Joe Laverty Photography

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’.

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Komodo Learning

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

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Magnetised

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

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Pauline McCallion

Writing & publishing

Pink Prism Studios

A games design studio offering freelancing services to provide 3D assets and coding for third party clients.

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Stéphanie Heckman

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.

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Virtualica Solutions

Digital Marketing

YEO Magazine

Belfast-based music magazine and supporter of creative culture

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Great few days of learning and reflection at 'Bautopia 5 Culture and Creativity Conference on Ecological and Financial Sustainability in the creative and cultural sectors' in Bologna! Now off to Venice for a weekend of fun!
Finally we remembered to get a group photo at our weekly Nurture Program catch-up! Thanks @verahylands for the reminder! I am loving getting to work with these brilliant creatives each week and am looking forward to sharing more about them and their creative ideas on our website and socials in coming weeks!

In the meantime, here's a quick introduction!

@makeitfashion.bt - local sustainable emerging fashion brand

@verahylands - a super talented artist with a mission to support NI woodlands through her work 

@bethanysmillican - an illustrator, currently working on her first solo exhibition for December Late Night Art East and an accompanying calendar of beautiful water themed works

@kitschsistersbelfast - crafty and creative events company. Currently working on organising a Winter Solstice Supper Club for Saturday 14th December
Downloadable cashflow forecast template! Similar to a budget, a cashflow forecast helps you to plan ahead for your creative business it will show you if you will have enough cash to run the business or expand it. It will also show you when more cash is going out of the business than in. We have included a downloadable Excel template linked to the budget template to make it simple for you to get started with putting together your own cashflow forecast for your creative business. Link below or in profile 

https://blickstudios.org/resources/useful-finance-resources-links/
Today's finance resource for emerging creatives is a budget template that you can download from our website as an excel document and complete for your creative business. �Putting together a budget for your creative business will help you to understand your costs, plan out your expenses and reach your goals. It's also not as complicated as it seems, we have included a downloadable excel budget template on the resources section of our website to help you to put one together for your business (link in our bio or below):

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�Today for our finance resources for emerging creatives we are sharing what you need to include on an invoice, something that seems obvious, but really isn't when you are starting out!

�You can download an invoice template as a word or PDF document from the 'Resources for Creatives' section of our website (link in bio or below) that you can then customise for your creative business!

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Thanks again to everyone who came along to @stephaniesaloli's creative talk last Wednesday evening and to Stephanie for giving such a great talk with so many insights and lessons for emerging creatives, as always we will be doing a wee event write up over coming weeks of the key lessons!
This week we have been thrilled to have been able to help with @belfastdesignwk  and @the_design_salon 's Sustainable Pop-up Design Museum as part of the RE(act) Festival by the @linenquarter in the Europa Hotel today and tomorrow!

If you are attending any events at the festival or just passing by you can pop by to take a look at the Pop-up Design Museum on the 2nd floor!

The Pop-up Design Museum feature 5 local designers incorporating sustainability into their work

- Sam Lynas Co-founder of @get.haru @helpandreuse a tech startup focused on circular fashion

- Azhar Murtuza Founder of @born_maverick a food innovation company

- Stéphanie Heckman @stephaniesaloli a graphic recorder and visual facilitator focusing on working on climate and sustainability events

- Lee Robb founder of Positive Carrickfergus and Co-founder of Carrick Greengrocers @carrickgrocers

- Emily McIlwaine @emtextiles Woven Designer and Horticulturalist

You can also read fab interviews with each of them on sustainability and their design practice over on the Belfast Design Week Website www.belfastdesignweek.com
We are so excited through our @the_design_salon collab as part of the �@linenquarter 's �RE[act] Festival 2024 to have Learning Experience Designer Peter Worth join us for a workshop on November 13th, 3-4.30pm in the Europa Hotel.

Peter works at the intersection of design thinking, professional learning, leadership, and culture change. Consulting globally and based in Northern Ireland, Peter’s work focuses on helping teams to elevate local brilliance and use the mindsets of human-centred design to create change so their users can thrive. In recent years, he has worked closely with the Stanford d.school and Catalyst.

Informed by his background in education, Peter has developed a design practice that balances analytical and creative problem-solving. His belief that great progress can be made by taking the time to listen first has positioned him to guide people through their initial discomfort with design to discover skills they did not know they had and to help educators recognize their power in the transformation of schools as a part of a larger story of impact. In addition, Peter works with K12 schools, universities, businesses, and non-profit organizations to promote local innovation.

Spaces are limited so find out more and grab your free ticket on the events page on our website (link in profile)!
Pollen Studios + Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Palette Perspectives” by Blick resident Emanuela Mae Agrini @emanuela_mae_agrini_art

The event will take place on November 7, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at Pollen’s gallery space located at 7 North Street, Belfast. As part of the Belfast Late Night Art event, this evening will showcase a collection of portrait paintings and fashion illustrations, exploring creativity and individual expression through various subjects and styles.
Another chance to check out the interview we did with Stephanie @stephaniesaloli who is sharing her story at our next Creative Talk on Wednesday evening!

Sign up on our website to hear her story in-person!
Just 1 week until our next creative talk with Blick Hill St resident Stephanie Heckman sharing her creative story as a graphic recorder and visual facilitator who translates real-time conversations into hand-drawn visual summaries at events and conferences globally including UN climate change negotiations!

Book your free ticket through our website (link in profile)