Blick Projects

A selection of our different creative projects, programmes and events

Current Projects

Nurture Creative Incubation Program

Nurture Support for Emerging Creatives

An 8-month program providing bespoke meaningful business support within a nurturing creative environment to help 4 emerging freelance or self employed creatives to successfully establish their creative practice and to...

The Sustainable Pop Up Design Musuem

Pop Up Design Museum

As part of our work with The Design Salon we have been helping to curate the 3rd Pop Up Design Museum on the 12th & 13th November at The Europa...

Designing Your Life through Doodles and Drawings to Improve Your Health and Wellbeing

Design your life to improve your health and wellbeing through doodling, drawing and collaging in this interactive visual journaling workshop. In this workshop illustrator Kylie Chan will share her own...

Our Time is Now

A video podcast series sharing the stories of 5 Belfast creatives. Exploring how they have built their businesses, overcome challenges and navigated the shifts and changes throughout their creative journeys....

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Womenfolk Peer Mentoring

Monthly get-togethers for creative women to meet and connect with other like-minded women.

Flock NI

Flock NI is the new trading arm of Blick. Flock is a company that delivers multidisciplinary creative projects. Flock brings together the creative talent involved with Blick to work on creative...

Belfast Design Week

Belfast Design Week celebrates design in all its forms in an annual week-long series of events encompassing talks, workshops, pop-ups, exhibitions and interactive elements focusing on design.

Womenfolk

Womenfolk is a project celebrating creative women entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland. The project aims to encourage more women to start up their own creative businesses through showcasing the profiles of...

Share 6

At Share 6, 6 creative speakers share their stories over 60 minutes on a theme with an audience Q&A at the end. Previous topics have included “Fashioning the future,” “Made...

Graduate Entrepreneurs in Residence

The Graduate Entrepreneurs in Residence programme is designed to support newly creative graduates to develop their business ideas with the help of free studio space and mentorship. Keep an eye...

Exhibitions at Blick

Exhibitions at Blick include current residents “Our Time is Now”, “Urban Design Callenge”, “Womenfolk”, “Refugees Welcome T-Shirt Design Challenge”, “The Art of the Comic” and “Failures” and aim to support...

Past Projects

Blick Summer 2023 Events

We developed a new summer 2023 program of support for creatives in Belfast. Focusing on informal action-led practical and inspiring workshops and get-togethers, bringing creatives together to meet, connect, and...

Grow Your Own Way

Grow Your Own Way was a collaborative project we developed with Belfast Design Week and VentureFolk combining design and growing to explore the potential for supporting residents to grow their...

Belfast Design Popup Museum Window Design of Oh! Donuts by Alex Synge First47 photo by Joe Laverty Photography

Popup Design Museum

The Popup Design Museum involved a design trail and exhibition as part of Belfast Design Week within shop windows and local independent small businesses and hotels.

Big Design Day Out

The Big Design Day Out was a project we developed for Belfast Design Week with over 50 different city centre design related events and activities for people of all ages...

Urban Design Challenge

The Urban Design Challenge sponsored by Destination CQ was a project we developed to bring together emerging designers to come together to design Urban Design ideas and interventions for the...

The World Turned Upside Down

Rewriting the Narrative was a 4-part audio documentary series exploring the experiences and personal stories of creatives during the Covid-19 crisis. Looking at how the pandemic impacted on the work,...

Womenfolk Industry Expert Videos

We created a series of free industry expert videos in collaboration with Creating A Space for Ulster Bank on topics including managing your finances, design thinking, developing your brand and...

Design Business Bootcamp

The Design Business Bootcamp was a short course with a leading design expert to develop design startups and give them the support and ideas for the next steps of their...

My Block

My Block

My Block celebrates and showcases independent businesses and culture and is supported by Innovate UK.

Design Startup: Build Your Own

Design Startup was a 3 day business start-up program covering three of the key elements of getting your business off the ground – ideation, prototyping and selling your work. This...

Womenfolk Dig Deep

Dig Deep

Dig Deep was a creative enterprise support program that brought young women (18 – 30) from different backgrounds NI & BAME together in a supportive and nurturing environment over a...

Great Creators Podcast

Great Creators Podcast was a series sharing the diverse stories of design and entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland. Featuring start-ups, community-led projects, and established businesses which together make up the rich...

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The Time is Now

The Time is Now was a collaborative project with Creating a Space focusing on honest and meaningful conversation style events for early stage creative entrepreneurs. Keep an eye on our...

Small Town Big Dreams

Small Town Big Dreams is a collaborative project between Blick Shared Studios, Karishma Kusurkar and Graeme Watson. A podcast celebrating Northern Ireland’s creative entrepreneurs and telling their stories. Small Town Big...

The Design Salon

A design collective for people in the design industry in Northern Ireland, to discuss projects and plans that are contemporary, cutting-edge and promote design locally and internationally.

Late Night Design

A chance to see behind the scenes of some of Belfast’s most creative design studios and meet and connect with other design industry professionals

Blick Academy

Blick Academy was an ongoing series of events and workshops for creative industry start-ups, freelancers and small businesses all about sharing skills and knowledge within the creative community to help...

NEST Creative Incubation Programme

The NEST program was a bespoke business support program we developed and managed for Eighty81 Creative Workspace in Derry-Londonderry for creative and digital start-ups. The program included affordable workspace, industry...

The Burning Question

The Burning Question is a panel discussion with design industry leaders. This interactive event seeks to find out the human element behind businesses through the sharing of stories as well...

Eighty81 Club for Creative Startups

Eighty81 Club for Creative Startups was a community for startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses in Derry-Londonderry. It was a series of events including workshops, clinics and case studies with industry...

25 Pop Up

25 is a design-led pop up showcasing and retailing independent design brands with products all priced at £25 or under, making it affordable for everyone. 25 Pop Up has been...

The Faculty

The Faculty was a collaborative project with Seedhead arts offering courses and workshops designed to teach you a new creative skill – be it photography, film-making, street art, flower arranging, stand-up...

Last year was super busy and a huge year of change for us here at Blick, leaving our Malone studios after 15 years and moving into our lovely new Great Northern Street studios! We are finally now starting to catch up with ourselves and we thought it would be a good time to update new followers on what we do and why. Starting with our main service, our studios.

- - OUR STUDIOS - -

When we started Blick back in 2008, our ambition was to create beautiful but affordable spaces for creatives to work in alongside other like-minded creatives.

We started with just one building, our Malone Studios in South Belfast, then took on two others in the Cathedral Quarter, our Hill Street studios and Cotton Court studios. Then last year we had to leave our beautiful Malone studios, but were super fortunate to find our gorgeous new Great Northern Street studios instead. All our studios provide a mix of private studio spaces and shared workspace with dedicated desks and storage.

- - HILL ST - -

Our Hill St studios are our biggest providing workspace to over 25 creatives within an open plan loft space with high ceilings and original features close to Belfast School of Art right in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter. Our Hill St studios can also be used as a virtual office for creatives who want a professional city centre address for their business.

- - COTTON COURT - -

Our Cotton Court studios are our most affordable studios providing both shared and private workspace to over 10 creatives in a building full of different creatives in the Cathedral Quarter.

- - GREAT NORTHERN STREET - -

Our Great Northern Street studios provide shared and private workspace to over 15 creatives and are located just off the Lisburn Road in a modern glass fronted building nestled between traditional red brick Belfast terrace houses.

Our spaces are all fully serviced, flexible and affordable, with prices from £125 per month. All our prices include rent, rates, utilities and broadband. Taking a space at Blick is more than just a physical space; it`s about meeting and working alongside like-minded people, collaborating, learning, and sharing experiences.

Visit our website for more info

Mar 10

Last year was super busy and a huge year of change for us here at Blick, leaving our Malone studios after 15 years and moving into our lovely new Great Northern Street studios! We are finally now starting to catch up with ourselves and we thought it would be a good time to update new followers on what we do and why. Starting with our main service, our studios.

- - OUR STUDIOS - -

When we started Blick back in 2008, our ambition was to create beautiful but affordable spaces for creatives to work in alongside other like-minded creatives.

We started with just one building, our Malone Studios in South Belfast, then took on two others in the Cathedral Quarter, our Hill Street studios and Cotton Court studios. Then last year we had to leave our beautiful Malone studios, but were super fortunate to find our gorgeous new Great Northern Street studios instead. All our studios provide a mix of private studio spaces and shared workspace with dedicated desks and storage.

- - HILL ST - -

Our Hill St studios are our biggest providing workspace to over 25 creatives within an open plan loft space with high ceilings and original features close to Belfast School of Art right in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter. Our Hill St studios can also be used as a virtual office for creatives who want a professional city centre address for their business.

- - COTTON COURT - -

Our Cotton Court studios are our most affordable studios providing both shared and private workspace to over 10 creatives in a building full of different creatives in the Cathedral Quarter.

- - GREAT NORTHERN STREET - -

Our Great Northern Street studios provide shared and private workspace to over 15 creatives and are located just off the Lisburn Road in a modern glass fronted building nestled between traditional red brick Belfast terrace houses.

Our spaces are all fully serviced, flexible and affordable, with prices from £125 per month. All our prices include rent, rates, utilities and broadband. Taking a space at Blick is more than just a physical space; it's about meeting and working alongside like-minded people, collaborating, learning, and sharing experiences.

Visit our website for more info

�Some of the great free events we have coming up in Blick this Month!

Wednesday 12th March - Creative Skills Workshop �– How to DIY Your Brand (and the common mistakes to avoid)
7pm - 9pm
�Blick Hill St

�Wednesday 19th March - Creative Talk - ��Juliette El Fouly Founder of Le Contour Contemporary Candle Company
7pm - 8pm�
�Blick Hill St

�Sunday 23rd March - Creative Skills Workshop - Strategic Goal Setting
�10am - 5pm
Blick Hill St

��https://blickstudios.org/events/

Mar 7

The second part of our interview with Laura Whitehouse founder of Might Fine Design @mightyfinedesign who is hosting a sold out branding workshop for us next Wednesday evening!

The full interview is on our website link below and in profile!

https://blickstudios.org/blog/12431/

Mar 7

Really looking forward to our next creative talk with the amazing Juliette founder of Le Contour contemporary candle company @lecontourcandles

ABOUT JULIETTE:

“I began my journey in lockdown of 2020 where, like many of us, I experienced first-hand the importance of being surrounded by things that enrich and encourage us in our day to day lives – namely in our home. This is what prompted the creation of my very first collection, designed to empower women and inclusively celebrate the female form. An ethos I am proud to align my brand to.”

In this talk, Juliette will share her creative story, including the highs and lows and some of the lessons she has learned along the way!

You can find out more about Juliette on her website https://lecontour.co.uk/ and follow her on on Instagram at @lecontourcandles

EVENT DETAILS:
Event Date(s): March 19, 2025
Event Time: 7pm-8pm
Location: Blick Shared Studios, 46 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LB
Cost: Free

Sign up now for your free ticket!

Link below and in profile

https://blickstudios.org/events/creative-talk-with-juliette-el-fouly-founder-of-le-contour-contemporary-candle-company/

Mar 6

Looking forward to our sold out Creative Skills Workshop in just 1 week with Laura Whitehouse founder of Mighty Fine Design facilitating a workshop for creatives all about DIYing your own brand!

We also have a fab creative talk the following week with Juliette El Fouly founder of Le Contour contemporary candle company!

Booking link in our profile!

Mar 5

CREATIVE SKILLS WORKSHOP - ADVENTURES IN CHATGPT

Is 2025 the year that AI changes everything? Is AI going to make the work life of creatives easier? Or are you going to be replaced?

What are the differences between ChatGPT and competitor platforms such as Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and others?

Many experts in the creative industries are predicting that 2025 will be the year that AI changes everything, with a raft of significant innovations from the major tech companies launched at the end of 2024.

In this workshop session for beginners, Graeme Watson @graeme_theory and Katya Buryakova @stormy_kate will explain some of the major controversies and opportunities around using ChatGPT in your work, while helping you explore some of practical ways creative professionals can integrate it into their work lives.

Graeme Watson and Katya Buryakova are the founders of Homewerk @homewerk.project a project that designs workshops, courses and projects to give creative professionals time, space and inspiration to learn new tools and tricks, and make new connections.

EVENT DETAILS

Event Date(s): April 2, 2025
Event Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Location: Blick Shared Studios, 46 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LB
Cost: Free
Book your free place on our website link below and in profile ✨️

https://blickstudios.org/events/creative-skills-workshop-adventures-in-chatgpt/

Mar 4

Ahead of the now sold out DIY Branding workshop she is hosting for us later this month, we have a brand new interview on our website with Laura Whitehouse founder of @mightyfinedesign

Here`s part 1 of the interview, or you can read the whole thing on our blog on our website ✨️ 🌟

Mar 4

Window exhibition Belfast Design Week Pop-up Sustainable Design Museum in our Great Northern Street Studios

Mar 3

Window exhibition Belfast Design Week Pop-up Sustainable Design Museum in our Great Northern Street Studios

It was a lovely sunny Friday in the Cathedral Quarter, love being able to walk put of our Hill St studios onto such a beautiful cobbled street! Especially in the sun 🌞 ☀️ 🌤 hoping there`s more sunny Fridays to come as we enter a new month and new season!

Feb 28

It was a lovely sunny Friday in the Cathedral Quarter, love being able to walk put of our Hill St studios onto such a beautiful cobbled street! Especially in the sun 🌞 ☀️ 🌤 hoping there's more sunny Fridays to come as we enter a new month and new season!

Weekend Exercise for anyone with a creative business idea/ new creative business or practice!

Following on from yesterday`s exercise about what`s holding you back, this one is all about giving yourself permission and making a personal commitment to yourself and your creative idea and can be really powerful!

Getting to know yourself: Giving Yourself Permission

This exercise will help you to take the first steps to give yourself permission to live the life that you want and make a personal commitment to yourself to do your best to make that life a reality.

�You can find downloadable PDF and Word documents on the creative resources section of our website. Link below and in profile

https://blickstudios.org/resources/giving-yourself-permission/

Feb 28

It`s almost March and we have loads of great things coming up in Blick in March!

Wednesday 12th March - Creative Skills Workshop – How to DIY Your Brand (and the common mistakes to avoid)
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Venue: Blick Hill St

Wednesday 19th March - Creative Talk - Juliette El Fouly Founder of Le Contour Contemporary Candle Company
Time: 7pm - 8pm
Venue: Blick Hill St

Sunday 23rd March - Creative Skills Workshop - Strategic Goal Setting
Time: 10am - 5pm
Venue: Blick Hill St

Tuesday 25th March - Womenfolk Peer Mentoring
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Venue: Blick Hill St

Friday 28th March - Creative Hubs Meetup
Time: 11am - 12pm
Venue: Vault Artist Studios & Gallery, Marlborough House

https://blickstudios.org/events/

Feb 27

Our latest exercise for emerging creatives on our website:

Getting To Know Yourself. What`s Holding you Back?

We often hold ourselves back out of fear and limiting beliefs. In this exercise, we will be looking into what holds you back from going for the things that you want in your creative practice. Downloadable Word and PDF documents are available on our website (link below and in profile).

https://blickstudios.org/resources/whats-holding-you-back/

Feb 27

Here`s some pics from our last creative talk with Ian Pitt founder and creative director of Me,Him&Her design.

Our next creative talk will be with Juliette El Fouly from Le Contour candles sharing her story on Wed 19th March!

Booking details on our website!

Feb 26

Here's some pics from our last creative talk with Ian Pitt founder and creative director of Me,Him&Her design.

Our next creative talk will be with Juliette El Fouly from Le Contour candles sharing her story on Wed 19th March!

Booking details on our website!

Really looking forward to our next creative talk on Wednesday 19th March with the amazing Juliette founder of Le Contour contemporary candle company @lecontourcandles

About Juliette:

“I began my journey in lockdown of 2020 where, like many of us, I experienced first-hand the importance of being surrounded by things that enrich and encourage us in our day to day lives – namely in our home. This is what prompted the creation of my very first collection, designed to empower women and inclusively celebrate the female form. An ethos I am proud to align my brand to.”

In this talk, Juliette will share her creative story, including the highs and lows and some of the lessons she has learned along the way!

You can find out more about Juliette on her website lecontour.co.uk and follow her on on Instagram at @lecontourcandles

EVENT DETAILS:

Event Date(s): March 19, 2025
Event Time: 7pm-8pm
Location: Blick Shared Studios, 46 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LB
Cost: Free

Sign up now for your free ticket link below or in profile!

https://blickstudios.org/events/creative-talk-with-juliette-el-fouly-founder-of-le-contour-contempor...

Feb 25

Happy Monday! The sun is shining for a change! 🌞 ☀️ 🌤

Feb 24

Happy Monday! The sun is shining for a change! 🌞 ☀️ 🌤

FREE CREATIVE SKILLS WORKSHOP - HOW TO DIY YOUR BRAND (AND THE COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID)

Join us on Wednesday, 12th March for this free creative skills workshop all about branding your creative business. This workshop will be hosted by Laura Whitehouse, founder of Mighty Fine Design @mightyfinedesign

This workshop will cover topics such as

- What’s important in a logo – to help you to work with a designer or more successfully design your own logo.

- Putting together brand colours – how to select brand colours for your creative business

- Selecting different fonts for your business

- Thinking about your brand language – how do you want to talk about your creative business? What type of language should you use?

- Considering marketing materials – where do you need to use your brand, what channels, e.g., packaging, business cards, website, social media, display items, etc

ABOUT LAURA:

Hello! I run a small graphic design agency (read: one person, a dog, and lots of lovely contractors) based in Bangor. I specialise in work for arts organisations, small businesses looking to grow, and a smattering of TV and Film projects, with clients across the UK ranging from garden designers, marketers, and voiceover artists through to behemoths such as Sky, Netflix, the BBC, and Marvel.
You can find out more about Laura on her website: https://www.laurawhitehouse.com/ or Instagram: @mightyfinedesign

EVENT DETAILS:
Event Date(s): March 12, 2025
Event Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Blick Shared Studios, 46 Hill St, Belfast, BT1 2LB
Cost: Free

Sign up now for your free ticket! Link below and in profile 🌟 🌟 🌟

https://blickstudios.org/events/nurture-creative-workshop/

Feb 23

We are delighted to have a mini exhibition space, including great street windows in our new Great Northern Street Studios! Which will give us space to showcase some of our projects, allowing passing members of the public and visitors to our studio to find out a bit more about the creative industry in Belfast.
The first work we are showcasing is the work from the Sustainable Pop Up Design Museum we helped organise in collaboration with @belfastdesignwk for the REact Festival in November.

Feb 20

We are delighted to have a mini exhibition space, including great street windows in our new Great Northern Street Studios! Which will give us space to showcase some of our projects, allowing passing members of the public and visitors to our studio to find out a bit more about the creative industry in Belfast.
The first work we are showcasing is the work from the Sustainable Pop Up Design Museum we helped organise in collaboration with @belfastdesignwk for the REact Festival in November.

Join us on Wednesday, 19th March, for our next Blick Creative Talk featuring Juliette El Fouly founder of Le Contour contemporary candle company - @lecontourcandles

About Juliette:

“I began my journey in lockdown of 2020 where, like many of us, I experienced first-hand the importance of being surrounded by things that enrich and encourage us in our day to day lives – namely in our home. This is what prompted the creation of my very first collection, designed to empower women and inclusively celebrate the female form. An ethos I am proud to align my brand to.”

In this talk, Juliette will share her creative story, including the highs and lows and some of the lessons she has learned along the way!

You can find out more about Juliette on her website lecontour.co.uk and follow her on Instagram at @lecontourcandles

EVENT DETAILS
Event Date(s): March 19, 2025
Event Time: 7pm-8pm
Location: Blick Shared Studios, 46 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LB
Cost: Free

Sign up now for your free ticket on the events page of our website (link in profile)!

Feb 19

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Wednesday evening for our creative talk with the wonderful Ian Pitt founder and creative director of @mehimandherdesign

We have loads of great talks and workshops coming up over the next few months, keep an eye on our website and socials for more info!

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Feb 14

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Wednesday evening for our creative talk with the wonderful Ian Pitt founder and creative director of @mehimandherdesign

We have loads of great talks and workshops coming up over the next few months, keep an eye on our website and socials for more info!

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AVAILABLE WORKSPACE

We currently have 2 dedicated adjacent deskspaces available in our Cotton Court Studios £125 per calendar month all inclusive (rates, utilities, broadband) per desk or £225 for both desks. Email christine@blickstudios.org for more info or to arrange a viewing or visit our website for more info

Feb 11

AVAILABLE WORKSPACE

We currently have 2 dedicated adjacent deskspaces available in our Cotton Court Studios £125 per calendar month all inclusive (rates, utilities, broadband) per desk or £225 for both desks. Email christine@blickstudios.org for more info or to arrange a viewing or visit our website for more info