Chalk Eastbourne’s Donna Fielder chatted with Matt Roberts, a Senior Digital and UX Designer at Sightsavers, to learn more about his journey to becoming a leader in user-centred design.

Chalk Eastbourne’s Donna Fielder headed over to Pacific House to meet Matt, Kai, and Louise to learn more about the Eastbourne-based filmmakers and storytellers, Smokescreen Visuals.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Our featured digital professional this month is Robbie Warwick, who has been working at the Home Office since 2011. He has also set up his own tech company, Random Creation House, to create a pipeline of apps…

We caught up with Paula Kemp and her team at the Birchwood Group, one of the sponsors at Eastbourne DigiFest, to learn more about their company and the…

Over the next couple of months, we’re focusing on sharing stories from our Eastbourne DigiFest sponsors - those who the event simply couldn’t happen without.

With a few weeks to go until brightonSEO kicks off, we caught up with Jo Walters, a freelance communications specialist on the conference’s team, to learn more.

Having received Highly Commended at the Eastbourne Business Awards late last year, we wanted to find out more about Cloud, Voice & Data, the Seaford-based…

MD Julian Perrott at BarkWeb, a web development company that launched in 1999 and moved to Eastbourne in 2010, caught up with Chalk this month to explain more about his career and the company.

Kim Byford, Talent Accelerator lead, met with us to introduce this programme which aims to get young people across East Sussex passionate about and into work in our thriving creative industries.

David Yates moved his business, Recursive Digital, to Eastbourne a year ago. We caught up with him to discover more about his audio, visual and software work and how his company has changed over the past ten years.

We spoke to software engineer, author, and speaker Russ Miles to find out more about his career path and experiences working in the UK, the US and Dubai - as well as his return to a great work-life balance in Eastbourne.

Stacey Pinkney and Tomasz Odrobinski spoke to us about their recruitment and operational roles at Booksy, a global tech start up with head offices in Eastbourne.

Grace Prior, Programme Manager at Diverse Sussex, spoke to Chalk about diversity, equity and inclusion within the tech sector and what we can all do to support..

Tom Fielder, CTO at Switchplane, spoke to Chalk about his career as a developer and what it’s been like starting his own company.