The Life of a Digital Nomad in Athens: Kim Gillick’s Experience

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We would like to introduce Kim Gillick, a content strategist that recently joined the Stone Soup community!

Kim is from Dublin, she graduated from The Institute of Technology, Tallaght, and got her masters degree at the Skema Business School, in France. Kim’s background in digital marketing and international business development motivated her to focus her work on helping startups build their audiences.

Kim has worked with agencies such as Aad, a design agency based in Dublin, which allowed her to consult for brands such as, breac.house, a bed and breakfast in Ireland, and BEST of BEEF, an organisation under the Irish hereford prime with which Kim works to rebrand their consumer-facing website.    

Kim arrived in Athens two months ago, and as a “digital nomad”, she searched for a space in which she could simultaneously work, and connect with other developers and startups. At the time, Stone Soup was looking for a digital marketing coordinator to join one of their projects, and Kim was more than equipped for the role. Kim describes the environment at Stone Soup to be creative, energetic, and collaborative – a space that provides a “traditional” work environment to those that decide to go out in their own direction. The convenience and accessibility of having a local network with which to engage, made the transition into the Athens digital sphere a lot easier for Kim.

After coming to Stone Soup, Kim started investing more time on a larger variety of ventures, while still maintaining her own creative freedom. This has allowed Kim to engage with other developers that are also starting up their own businesses, to help them build their audience.

Kim’s ambition is to become a more diverse collaborator, in order to expand her professional network and reach a broad range of companies – to which she can bring her expertise!

Check out her website to see more of what she does!

Introducing Gabriel Launer

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We would like to welcome Gabriel Launer!

Gabriel is a free-lance illustrator and concept artist that arrived at Stone Soup last October. He has worked on video game designs and artistic branding. His art can be described as visual storytelling – creating worlds, characters, and stories to artistically immerse the viewer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gabriel was born and raised in France, where he received an Engineering degree from Lycee Jean Perrin, St-Ouen L’Aumone. However, after graduating he decided to pursue his initial passion, art, and went on to study at Villa Arson, the Fine Art school of Nice.

As an artist focusing on his personal practice, Gabriel makes an effort to collaborate with companies that he feels truly passionate about. This allows him to explore his creativity through a variety of different outlets, which can be seen in his collaboration with ‘Up-Κυτταρική θρέψη’, a vegan restaurant that promotes health and nutrition. Gabriel has used his artistic aptitude to create a brand for the restaurant, by designing visuals and illustrations for them.

Gabriel’s general ambition and true enthusiasm, however, comes from his individual projects. Through his art, his purpose is to effectively demonstrate and communicate ‘pure’ art, to convey authentic emotion that can easily be understood by the audience. By establishing is own artistic identity, Gabriel hopes to collaborate with other artists on bigger projects, and potentially participate in exhibitions to showcase some of his work.

Check out Gabriel’s Instagram to see some of his work!

Introducing Our New Intern: Anya Eurwongpravit

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Hi! My name is Anya Eurwongpravit, and I’m the new Stone Soup intern. I have travelled to Athens with AIESEC, a non-profit youth-lead organisation that gives students the opportunity to travel across the globe, in order to develop leadership skills and gain cross-cultural experiences. My focus at Stone Soup will be primarily on Social Media Management, and increasing the company’s online presence. A little about me – I am from originally from Hong Kong, but my parents are from Honduras and Thailand. I go to the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, and am currently majoring in Psychology. This past year, I worked with a volunteer university group to increase awareness and decrease the stigma surrounding mental health on campus, and I hope to bring those collaboration and team work skills to this job. As a Social Media intern, I can use online platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, to promote events and engage the larger community as to what Stone Soup is, and does. I am very willing to attend to the needs of any of the staff, big or small, and am very excited to be here to learn.

Wishing Odd Bleat good luck!

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After being in the Stone Soup office for over a year, we unfortunately bid adieu to Odd Bleat, but we are happy that they are moving to their own, bigger space.

Since they first arrived at Stone Soup, Odd Bleat has expanded both as a group, with 3 people in the team now, and professionally, as they have begun to take on larger-scale collaborations. Their increasing notoriety has lead them to produce bigger and more intricate productions, and has broadened their scope, in terms of the types of animations they now create, and the different companies they have worked with.

Odd Bleat has continued to win various awards for their work, including Gold Prize for all Digital Applications and First Prize in the Animation category, both in the 2018 EBGE Awards in Greece.

A particularly interesting project Odd Bleat has since worked on, was at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC), a cultural complex that celebrates Greek tradition. The “Countdown to Christmas”, was a massive Christmas campaign, for which Odd Bleat created 30 animations, every day of November before the SNFCC turned on their Christmas lights.

This project allowed Odd Bleat to continue their work with the the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and they are now working with them on the foundation’s upcoming DIALOGUES events – a monthly series in which different topics, such as food and football, will be explored and discussed, in order to engage the community in conversation, and increase discourse around these themes. You can check out more information about this here. 

Odd Bleat’s hope for the future as they continue to expand, is that their focus remains on the creative content of their projects. As the animation industry is relatively limited in Athens, they look to grow the scale of their company in the international sphere, while still maintaining their smaller core group, and home-base, here in Athens.

Check out Odd Bleat’s website and Facebook page to see more of their work!