The month of December is well and truly upon us, so, with just a week to go until the Big Day, we wanted to wish you a happy Christmas from the team at Chalk Eastbourne!

We're back to business as usual this month, now that Eastbourne DigiFest is done and dusted! What does that mean for this newsletter? Well, it's a bumper edition. Keep reading for:

School's out for summer! What are your plans for enjoying Eastbourne while the sun is out? Here's a selection of what's on over the next few weeks.

The latest news from Chalk Eastbourne and DigiFest, featuring Racquet Studios’ 1st birthday event, a chat with Heather Whitmore of Fountain Digital, and DigiFest 2024 speakers unveiled.

This month we caught up with local graphic and web designer, Heather Whitmore. Chalk Eastbourne first met Heather as a college student when she volunteered as a steward at Eastbourne DigiFest 2023. This event led to her securing her first full-time position in the digital sector with Fountain Digital.

We are thrilled to unveil an exciting line up for this year's DigiFest.

With the weather just about improving, we've happily been out and about more than usual at various events. Find out what we’ve been up to!

There's plenty going on in and around Eastbourne in creative, digital, and tech this month.

Audio production company On The Sly recently when they invited us to take a look around their new state-of-the-art recording studios in Eastbourne. We visited them to learn more about their audio business and podcast space.

Sussex, UK - 23rd Feb 2024: Racquet Studios, a Sussex-based trailblazer in the realm of Virtual Production, celebrated an immensely successful Student Open Day with East Sussex College at their cutting-edge Eastbourne facility on Thursday 22nd February, offering more than 120 attendees from a range of creative courses a deep dive into the transformative world of virtual content creation and filmmaking.

Following their talk at Eastbourne DigiFest 2023, we were intrigued to learn more about the new technologies being used by Racquet Studios, based in the Devonshire Quarter in Eastbourne. Aside from their mind-blowing virtual film production work, they have been working hard on creating digital twins using photogrammetry and 3D modelling techniques. What does that actually mean?

There are lots of opportunities to get involved this week, including a Create South East panel and an innovation webinar. Plus, learn more about photogrammetry and 3D modelling with Racquet Studios!

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024, featuring lots to look forward to in the coming weeks...

Wondering how you can gain more traction to get your innovation and R&D projects off the ground? Whether it's funding, advice, or people power you need, it's worth joining us on Wednesday 28th February for our first-ever webinar session.

This month’s chat took us into the realms of brand strategy and design with Eastbourne-based agency Firebrand. We caught up with Michael Dale and John Coupland to find out about their career journeys, how Firebrand works, how you could get into similar roles, and why they love Eastbourne.

Let's face it - we're all counting down the days to a break at Christmas, if we're lucky! Here's some of the latest updates from Chalk Eastbourne to tide you over until you can pour yourself a mulled wine...

Innovation has been on our minds here at Chalk Eastbourne over the last few months. From Zunoma winning the Innovation category of the Eastbourne Business Awards, sponsored by Switchplane, to the launch of our Chalk Connect group aimed at inspiring those in our industry to develop their passion projects, it’s got us thinking about how the CDT sector can create more space for innovation in the day-to-day.

Following the success of Eastbourne DigiFest, we want to ensure the 'in-person' part of our community continues. So in the spirit of this time of year, we'd love to invite you to "DigiFestive" - our celebratory Christmas get-together...

Our featured professional in the CDT sector this month is Jason Price, who caught up with us to explain a bit more about what his role as a motorsport design consultant looks like and the advice he’d give to those wanting to get started.

Welcome to the new members of our digital community in Eastbourne who attended DigiFest! We really hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did hosting it.