Sophie Blackhurst

Creative Director - Blackhurst and Co Ltd

Since leaving university, I’ve gone on to start two creative businesses and now spend my days working as a Creative Director and Set Designer. I run Blackhurst & Co, which focuses on set design, build and backdrop hire, and Yeti Creative, a creative agency working with clients all over the UK and beyond.

We create sets and content for the sport, fashion and music industries, and over the years we’ve been lucky enough to work with some incredible brands. Our work has featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, in shop windows for Primark, Disney and Gymshark, and for some of the top football clubs in the UK.

I’m passionate about opening the door to the industry and giving people the chance to learn on set, so I feel really lucky that so many of the freelancers I now collaborate with also came from the same course. The things I learnt here back in 2010 still shape my work every day, and it just shows how far you can go when you build those creative foundations.