Getting Creative With Perth Digital Agency HATCHET

We at the historic Studio StartUp, pet-friendly building, welcome exciting new tenants HATCHET & their mascot Misty, seen here hard at work.

Hatchet is a creative and bright thinking digital agency in Perth helping to get the best out of business workflows, digital assets and online presence!

The team consists of local Perth specialist web developers with a core focus on delivering excellence in website hosting, website design, app development and software development.

Service offerings include:

• Website Hosting - Performance driven built for speed and SEO.

• App Development – Building you apps that get the job done and get noticed.

• Software Development – Simplifying your business processes with elegant and effective solutions.

• Databases - Safe, secure, quick data manipulation and storage solutions.

• Websites - Custom designed and built WordPress websites.

www.hatchet.com.au

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Bud Agency

We’re your one stop trusted digital guides to help grow your business over the length and breadth of the customer journey.

Our team consists of local Perth digital marketing specialists who bring a holistic approach to executing digital strategies to maximise the speed and efficacy at which companies grow. Simply put, Bud grows business better.

Service offerings include:

• Growth Marketing – Align your digital opportunities into one growth journey to maximise growth.

• SEO – Search engine optimisation with an omni-channel approach, that works harder for you.

• Google Ads – We’ll take your spend further aligning creative, delivery & audience.

• Social Media – Big picture social that’s like word of mouth on steroids.

• Content Marketing – Empower your brand and nurture business growth.

www.bud.agency

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Innovating Subiaco with Phil Delalande

Phil Delalande, Telstra Purple Principal Consultant in Innovation & Design, explored the theme of value creation through innovation, in a hands-on workshop at the Hiddelstone Hub in Subiaco and online, as part of the Atomic Sky driven innovation workshops for WA small and medium businesses.

After reframing the definition of value, Phil led the group through empathy mapping and how it fits into designing the value proposition and discussed the "Jobs to be done" framework, and methods to dig into the customers' unspoken needs.

The last part of the workshop focused on Blue Ocean Strategy, with great conversations on how to stand out and disrupt traditional markets.

The other workshops are by Greg Riebe from Agility Shift on Raising Capital and Investment Pitching, Narelle Goodfield on Leadership Branding and Communications, Kay Solanki of Coachtique on Finding New Clients or Channels and Peter Rossdeutscher on Business Strategy and Execution.

Toastface Grillah’s Original Laneway Cafe is Closing This Month

Toastface Grillah in Grand Lane

Photography: Greta Carroll

You never forget your first time at the original Toastface Grillah.

The uncertainty of roaming through laneways in search of “some place that does toasties.” Seeing the famous Toastface mural-slash-mascot - a giant, gun-toting cheese sandwich - in real life. (Take a bow, Jessee Lee Johns, the Fremantle artist that painted the piece). The warmth of both the charmingly DIY space as well as the welcome from staff. Finally, there’s the food offering of excellent toasted sandwiches and well-made coffee: a double-act that, while commonplace now, was fresh out the box when Toastface swung open its chain link fencing gate in March 2013.

After seven years of bringing the ruckus to Grand Theatre Lane, Toastface owners Marika and Alister Miles have made the decision to shut the laneway cafe that spawned a stringy cheese empire. Read full article on The BROADSHEET

And look out for the exciting new cafe taking it’s place.

VR startup unleashes an immersive design & development consultancy

Startup News article by Charlie Gunningham

When you’re out there developing your own platform, sometimes you can help others along the way, and earn money from it …

For the past year, since graduating from 2016’s Founder Institute in Perth, Ben Bauert and the team at Unleashed VR have been busy building their own soft skills training platform.

Recently, more and more clients have been asking him for help with their own AR or VR projects.

While this was not exactly core business, Ben saw an opportunity – the creation of Unleashed XR, their own design and development consultancy, which launched in January and sits alongside the Unleashed VR business.

Might this not distract and slow down the development of the main Unleashed project, Startup News asked?

READ STARTUP NEWS FULL ARTICLE

APPS People create HiveXpress trading app for HiveXchange

HiveXpress App by APPS People

HiveXchange is an independent digital marketplace which facilitates an efficient and profitable trade of wholesale fresh produce both across Australia and in export markets.

In addition, HiveXpress app allows buyers and sellers to trade freely as a sales tool that makes it possible to connect and trade on the run - anytime, anywhere.

HiveXpress was APPS People’s first dip into cross-platform application development and it has been a huge success.

“Cross-platform development allows us to write one set of code for multiple platforms (iOS and Android).” Says Stuart Kidd, “It's not the right decision for every type of mobile app project but it fitted perfectly based on the client's requirements. This ultimately means that only one code base needs to be updated instead of the usual two.”

The app is on the App Store and Play Store

Studio Startup residents, APPS PEOPLE, are a multi-award winning agency specialising in the design and development of mobile and web apps.

You can get to know more about APPS People’s work and team HERE.

FACEBOOK MARKETING INTENSIVE TRAINING

If you want to learn how to design, create and actually launch your own targeted Facebook marketing and advertising campaign, then the IRL (in real life) Two-Part Facebook Marketing Intensive is for you.

Over the two epic day-long workshops (Friday, October 27 & Friday, November 10), our team of experts will walk you through, step-by-step, everything you need to do to launch an automated Facebook marketing campaign designed to fill your database with dream clients, nurture your relationship with them and, ultimately, covert all of your leads from “cold” to “sold.”

Meet the Experts:

Renee Kacz
Business Coach | Founder of the Inspired Women | Online Marketing Guru

Jessica Tutton
Facebook Marketing Strategist | Founder of Envy Media Management | Your Facebook Ads Go-To Gal

Don't wait:

The first day is this coming Friday, so if you are keen on gaining these valuable skills and knowledge, sign up now.

Upon completing the IRL Two-Part Facebook Marketing Intensive, you’ll have learnt all the strategies, skills and tools to design and create a high converting Facebook ad AND you’ll have hands-on experience building and will actually launch your very own Facebook campaign.

This event is taking place in our TechHub Training Room at 4 Money Street, Northbridge.

Read more or signup HERE

Social Impact Festival Screens Free Movies

The first event of short films has already played on Thursday 20th July with some compelling viewing.

The screenings are on a constant loop so you can wander in and stay for one film or watch all the movies as they come back around. There are plenty of seats and it's free to enter.

Barry Otto and Skye starring in the Studio Startup Underground Cinema

This weeks screenings in our Studio Startup Underground Cinema, are on Tuesday 25 and Thursday 27 July - from 1pm to 4pm. Access is through Toastface Grillah Cafe, where you can be tempted by what's said to be the best coffee & toasted sandwiches in Perth.

Some of the short films screening are:

NAOMI'S FILM: SOUL MATES, starring Barry Otto, opening at a critical turning point in the life of a man battling depression, who has a moment of clarity and makes a decision that significantly changes his life and those around him.

ALIKO'S FILM: Home isn’t just where Aliko Nomoa’s heart is — it’s where his soul and spirit are too. Through his Youth Week lm Aliko is seeking to give the world beyond Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait, a glimpse of what connects him to his culture.

GRACE'S FILM: In Australia on any given night around 26,000 Australians between the ages of 12 and 24 are homeless. Seventeen-year-old Grace was one of them.

BROKEN HILL: A new work by Peter Drew, the artist behind the 'Real Australians Say Welcome' posters among many others. Broken Hill is a short film about the launching of a balloon to celebrate the lives of cameleers who worked in Australia one hundred years ago.

The Social Impact Festival is hosted by the Centre for social impact at the UWA Business School and celebrates bringing about positive social change and is supported by Lottery West.

Coding Workshop - Build your App

APPS PEOPLE are co-hosting a coding workshop with STUDIO STARTUP.

Our offer: Four discounted tickets available, that's 25% off.

Where? In The Studio Basement under Toastface Grillah in Perth, which is near the Wellington St train station

When? December 2nd

This is a first in basis, so if you are keen don't wait. SIGN UP HERE and if you are lucky to be one of the first 4, use the Code StudioStartup to get your discount.

If you’re curious about mobile app development as a profession, or even as a hobby then this course is for you.

This will be an easy to follow and hands on beginners introduction to Swift and iOS development. You’ll even have built your own mobile app by the end of the workshop!

This course is for beginners, you don't need any previous coding experience!

SEE WHO'S SHAPING PERTH

WATCH THE VIDEO

Studio Startup Founder and Director Peter Rossdeutscher speaks on Technology and co-working in Perth's CBD.

HIPFLASK INTERVIEWS KIM KIM KIM

Wall at Studio Startup painted by artist Kim Kim Kim... See more of her artwork

Who are you? 
"Hi I’m Kim Kim Kim?

Is that your real name or artist name?
"I changed my name when I came here, as Australian people couldn’t pronounce my Korean name. I needed to find something easy to say but I didn’t want to use a typical English name, so I choose to keep my last name.  Despite Kim being the most common last name for Koreans, I decided to use it as it could help me to remember I’m just one amongst many other Kims – the others."  ... Read More

Pet Friendly Office Space in Perth CBD

Studio Startup has Pet Friendly office space available in Perth CBD

Now this is pretty rare around town, but we love to bring our furry friends to work with us.

Contact us now if you would like to see the offices available.

Dandjoo Darbalung Centre - Grand Opening

Dandjoo Darbalung is the largest tertiary residential program for Indigenous students of its kind in Australia. Nationally, the retention rate for Indigenous Australians is c.47% In comparison, students supported through the Dandjoo Darblung program achieve a 90% retention rate and a 78% pass rate which is comparable with non-Indigenous pass rates.

Arts Initiative Australia's Creative Launch held at Studio StartUp

Louise McKay performs at the Arts Initiative Australia launch held at Studio StartUp

Artists, composer and publisher Andrew Batt-Rawden doesn’t pull any punches.

“We live in a world being destroyed socially, environmentally and artistically by myopia and greed,” he says. “Yet paradoxically... it is being positively recreated by visionaries who take risks and those who are generous.”

On Friday night, following a riveting performance of Prokofiev’s searing Sonata for solo cello by WASO’s Louise McKay in Studio Startup’s basement, below Toastface Grillah just off Barrack Street, Batt-Rawden launched Arts Initiative Australia.

The organisation was established “to support the arts in ways that are needed yet not currently serviced,” Batt-Rawden continues.

“One area that has been difficult to fund through currently available channels has been the structures that build capacities of artists, or of the arts as a whole,” he says.

“We want to encourage risk-taking arts visionaries and entrepreneurs who want to support their sector in ways that respond to the times in which we live, as much as we’re supportive of artists who want to build their own capacities to have sustainability in their practice.”   READ MORE

VIRTUAL REALITY AUGMENTED REALITY & GAMES WORKSHOP

Join game designer and entrepreneur Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie in this intensive hands-on workshop, where you will gain direct insight into the future of games. You will think and see the world like a game designer, learn about the most exciting virtual and augmented-reality game projects, and even try your hand at Stirfire Studios’ locally created VR game, Symphony of the Machine. There are limited spaces, so book soon. Suitable for all ages.

Friday 21st October 2016 at the City of Perth Library Auditorium from 9am to 1:15pm

TICKETS: $99 (includes light refreshments)  ... Read more & book your ticket

Free Workshop for Children’s Television Creators

Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) and ABC Children’s Coming to Town

Michael Carrington, Head of Children’s and Education ABC-TV, and Bernadette O'Mahony, Head of Development and Production Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF), are coming to Perth in May to hold a one day workshop and a series of one-on-one meetings with children’s television creators

You must book before coming - HERE

Workshop on Children’s TV in Australia
Wed 24 May 10am – 4pm
FTI, Piazza Community Room, Lake Street, Northbridge

Michael and Bernadette will also look at opportunities for making innovative Kid's TV and how new players can enter the sector

Are You Kidding? Snow in Perth?

Yes we were like Pugs in Snow, ha ha. This was so much fun, there was joy, childish giggles and even some Grand Lane dancing.

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Working hard in the offices of Studio Startup, we heard a commotion down below. Not too busy to check the scene and what did we uncover? Artist Amy Perejuan-Capone was pouring snow out the windows and gleeful laughter was bouncing back up at her. Yep, it was snowing in Perth. Fake snow, mind you, which was a whole lot of fun, but not so cold.

This was the last day of "One Word For Snow" as part of the City of Perth's Winter Festival, but I think by the look of things it might be back next year. I did spy some reckless dancing in the lane-way, a bit of carefree chasey and it wouldn't be 2017 if there hadn't been countless photos taken.

But then, as seriously passionate startup business people we went back to work with a cheeky smile on our dial. Except for those who popped next door to Toastface Grillah for caffeine. You know who you are :)

And to the kiddies that stopped by, I hope you had a fabulous time. See video below for reckless joy.

Fun as Snow falls in Perth, WA, at Studio Startup in Grand Lane

SNOW is coming to Studio Startup

...and it will be pouring from our windows.

As part of the Winter Arts Festival, capturing the absurdity and joy of snow in mild weathered Perth, Amy Perejuan-Capone’s project "One Word For Snow" has been sprouting up at secret locations all over Perth and now Amy has issued a snow alert for Grand Lane!

You can follow the snow if you're game as there is predicted a possibility of whimsy and high levels of joy.
Where: Grand Lane, off Wellington Street & Barrack Street, above Toastface Grillah Cafe, Perth

AND IT"S FREE
For more information: visit One Word for Snow and Facebook

I will be there, as the crowd gathers, sipping my Toastface Grillah Latte and taking photos. I'm looking forward to some whimsy and joy... might see you there.

Best Movies in the Basement

Short Films, Big Impact. The SOCIAL IMPACT FESTIVAL is a platform for cutting-edge knowledge and ideas, celebrating initiatives creating positive change, and generating insights that address complex social problems and runs July 18 to 28 in Perth.

And as part of the Impact Festival we're screening films in our very cool basement.

STUDIO STARTUP BASEMENT - 143 BARRACK STREET PERTH

Studio Startup's basement under Toastface Grillah will transform into underground cinema for the duration of the Social Impact Festival.

Location: Studio Startup Basement (Under Toastface Grillah)

Dates: 20, 25, 27 July           Times: 1pm - 4pm

Drop by, grab a toastie and settle in for some special short film screenings including: Aliko's Film and Grace's Film: In celebration of National Youth Week, SBS teamed up with the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) and Department of Social Services (DSS) to give young people the chance to share their story on national television. 15- to 24-year olds across the country were invited to submit a video entry about their unique identity. Social Impact Festival's Impact Gallery highlight some of the winners.

ALIKO'S FILM: Home isn’t just where Aliko Nomoa’s heart is — it’s where his soul and spirit are too. Through his Youth Week lm, Aliko is seeking to give the world beyond Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait, a glimpse of what connects him to his culture.

GRACE'S FILM: In Australia on any given night around 26,000 Australians between the ages of 12 and 24 are homeless. Seventeen-year-old Grace was one of them.

BROKEN HILL: A new work by Peter Drew, the artist behind the 'Real Australians Say Welcome' posters among many others. Broken Hill is a short film about the launching of a balloon to celebrate the lives of cameleers who worked in Australia one hundred years ago.

SOUL MATES: Written & Directed by Naomi Rossdeutscher, SOUL MATES spans a critical turning point in the life of Paddy Byrne, a 64 year old man, as he battles with grief, loneliness, love and change. Paddy’s inner struggle ends in a moment of clarity and he’s faced with a decision that will signicantly alter his life and those around him

See the Social Impact Festival website for the full program at www.socialimpactfestival.org