The Bloc team had an amazing time celebrating Tenpin Derby’s opening night! Revisiting where it all started, some of the staff took a trip down memory lane...

Celebrating Tenpin Derby’s Opening Night

As we reflect on the Battle of Cambrai and the bravery of all ex-service members, we honour individuals like Richard, our 3D Generalist and all those who currently serve.

The Battle of Cambrai and Richard’s Story...

We’re delighted to announce our expansion across the Midwest, with a second US-based office in Wichita, Kansas, nicknamed the Air Capital of the World...

Bloc Digital Inc. Secures Second US Office!

The Bloc team took on a 10km Wolf Run packed with mud, obstacles, and freezing water, stepping out of their comfort zones, having fun, and bonding as a team.

Bloc Digital Conquers the Wolf Run!

Elevating local events with our Creative and Brand services to support The Darley Park Weekender with Derby LIVE!

Bloc Digital Sponsors The Darley Park Weekender

After successful trips across the US and Farnborough International Airshow, we were thrilled to welcome Wichita Mayor Lily Wu and Co to Bloc’s UK office.

Mayor of Wichita Lily Wu Visits Bloc Digital

Transforming marketing visualisation and interactivity at FIA 2024. Empowering our clients to work smarter, be more connected, and have a greater impact.

Bloc Takes Flight at Farnborough International Airshow

Our Co-founders and CEOs returned from their trip across the United States, to explore opportunities in the aerospace, aviation, and defence industries on American soil.

Bloc’s Fifth Trip Across North America

Our Senior UX designer, Ranica Brown recently graduated from The Manchester Metropolitan University on the first UX degree apprenticeship in the UK!

RANICA GRADUATES FROM THE UK’S FIRST UX DEGREE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM!

Leaping from thousands of feet to raise thousands of pounds for Safe & Sound, a charity dedicated to protecting children and young people from exploitation.

Local charity skydive with Safe & Sound!

The team got invited to Oulton Park Race Circuit to witness Team Derby Motorsports compete in the Radical Cup, and EXCELR8 Motorsport compete in the BTCC.

Bloc Digital enters the world of Motorsport!

We hosted global marketing managers from Rolls-Royce, showcasing the power of Bloc and how we push boundaries in marketing, training, and Industry 4.0.

Hosting Rolls-Royce: Showcasing the power of Bloc!

Danny, Steve, and Oliver spent the day at Silverstone offering event consultancy for one of our global industrial clients upcoming presentation.

Event consultancy at Silverstone Circuit

Strategic visits across Ohio to NASA Glenn Research Center and Geauga Business Advisory Council...

Expanding US Horizons with visits to NASA and Geauga Council

Making a difference together with Co-Treetment. A local tree planting initiative, working towards a more sustainable future one tree at a time.

Celebrating Earth Day: Bloc Digital Tree Planting

Martyna, Keith, David, and Marco are gearing up to participate in a charity skydive this June, supporting the Safe & Sound Group Derby…

Bloc Digital Takes to the Skies for Local Charity Skydive

In a breathtaking display that turned day into night, residents of Cleveland, Ohio and the Bloc Digital Inc. team were treated to a rare celestial spectacle...

Rare Total Solar Eclipse Over Ohio

Poised to drive our business forward, forge new partnerships, and further elevate our presence across the digital landscape. An exciting change for a brighter future!

Introducing our new Business Development Team!

A cutting-edge 3D imaging technology called NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields), will be harnessed to drive the digital transformation of aerospace inspections...

Digitally Transforming Aerospace Inspections

Another awards night, another double triumph! Our Finance Director Mo won Finance Leader and Leader of the Year at this year's Leadership Awards!

MO WINS BIG (TWICE) AT THE EAST MIDLANDS LEADERSHIP AWARDS

We've established a culture of collaboration and excellence, where no challenge is too great and no idea too ambitious. A credit to the people behind our projects.

Building a well-rounded team

Our incredible staff celebrates International Women’s Day! By sharing messages to their younger selves alongside childhood photos.

IWD 2024: This Girl Will Campaign

Breaking tech company stereotypes, we're highlighting the diverse hobbies and interests our fellow Blocees enjoy away from work...

Beyond Bloc: Promoting a healthy work-life balance

We’re thrilled to unveil our new North American headquarters located at The Matchworks Building in Mentor, Ohio, as the central hub for all our US operations.

Bloc Digital Opens Overseas Base in North America!

A fantastic evening in London, celebrating triple triumph with a gold, silver and bronze award from the 2024 Communicate Magazine Lens Awards.

Bloc Digital wins Best Animation at the Lens Awards 2024!

Teaming up with the EM IoT as a lead industrial partner, we opened the brand new facility to kickstart this exciting regional collaboration.

Opening the all-new East Midlands Institute of Technology

A night to remember at the 2023 Derbyshire Business Awards, winning Small Business of the Year and Excellence in International Trade!

Bloc Digital Wins Small Business of the Year 2023!

As we reflect on the past year, it's been a ground-breaking journey for us, and we're excited to share some standout stats and figures that show our accomplishments...

2023: Our Year In Numbers

Our Innovate UK-funded feasibility study is positioned to facilitate the digital transformation of fleet inspections within the rail and road industries.

Transforming Inspections Within Rail and Road

We’re proud to promote a healthier and more sustainable work environment for fellow Blocees with Bike2Work! 

PEOPLE AND PLANET: INTRODUCING OUR NEW BIKE2WORK SCHEME

Cherished memories brought to life through charity, education and enterprise collaboration. 

Treetops Hospice ‘Light Up A Life’ Collaborative Film Production

We’re elevating our reverse engineering process to support internal R&D and photogrammetry deliveries to ensure success across our ever-evolving Industry 4.0 operations…

Streamlined visualisation with 3D scan technology

Inspector from Bloc Products is a mobile visual inspection enabling users to manually capture information on part conditions, establishing an end-to-end chain of evidence.

Inspector

Experience our brand-new US office through an immersive CGI virtual tour! Explore our hub for all US operations, allowing us to better serve our growing customer base.

Overseas triumph as Bloc Digital secures brand-new US office!

As part of our mental health at work commitment, we organised engaging and educational activities to highlight the importance of well-being every day.

Mental Health Awareness at Bloc

Mo, Keith and Aimee have been shortlisted for awards within the finance and sustainability spaces. We celebrate their achievements and impact! 

Bloc Team Shortlisted for Finance and Sustainability Awards 

Global growth for Bloc Digital with launch of US business. We've launched a US business to unlock further opportunities for growth within North America. 

Global growth for Bloc Digital with launch of US business

Bloc Digital has signed a major £3 million contract with a global industrial brand that wants to secure the company’s expertise.

Bloc secures £3 million retainer contract from global brand

Bloc Digital is demonstrating the power of data visualisation to transform manufacturing operations with a production line digital twin for JCB.

The power of digital twins boosts manufacturing productivity 

Hear from our Directors, Keith and Chris, as they reflect on the highlights of 2022 and what’s to come in 2023.

New capabilities, new technologies, new year 

We are proud to demonstrate our commitment to a workplace environment where all our employees thrive.

Bloc Digital Signs Mental Health at Work Commitment

New partnership agreement between the University of Derby and Bloc Digital boosts R&D, next-generation skills development, and the retention of talent within the region.

University of Derby partnership will level up skills and innovation

Our Augmented Reality app bringing Errwood Hall digitally back to life has been featured by BBC East Midlands!

Errwood Hall AR App Launched and Featured by BBC News

Our digital twin solution to remote challenges in learning has been published in the open access Production and Manufacturing Research journal.

Digital Twin Laboratories For Online Practical Learning [Publication] 

The addition comes as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and development, expanding its reach across the digital visualisation and creative technology sector. 

Bloc Digital welcome Mo Suleman as Finance Director

Virtual is offering a vibrant, bright and strategic future for production. Drawing on our expertise in content creation, visual effects (VFX), modelling, and an eye for all things CG visualisation, we’re bringing our clients the latest in professional production and broadcast. 

Virtual production: turning vision into real-time reality

Let’s talk Metaverse… What is it? What happens in it? What technologies does it use? And how can businesses use it? Read on to find out. 

Momentum for the Metaverse: Explaining Web 3.0 and Immersive Technologies

At Bloc we’re drawing on our digital twin and IIoT know-how, and working alongside our project partners, to improve production quality, reduce lubrication usage and minimise environmental impact. 

Using IIoT and digital twins for ‘innovate-tive’ MQL research

We’ve been supporting the promotion of rail overseas with our big data analytics. As part of the 2018 “Rail Sector Deal” Bloc Digital were the chosen suppliers of the Supply Chain Capability Map! 

‘Deal’ing with Rail Sector Data: Supply Chain Capability Mapping

WebAR is enhancing the accessibility of AR experiences and offering up enormous potential for B2C, STEM audiences, and quick impact marketing. We explore with the University of Derby...

WebAR: bringing AR experiences direct to your browser

New capabilities, clients, tech and talent – see what our arts studios have been getting up to.

Catching up with Creative, Media and Arch Viz

We congratulate Front-End Web Developer, Alex Collyer, for winning Baltic Apprenticeships’ Apprentice of the Month.

Alex Collyer crowned apprentice of the month

Taking it back to our roots… we spoke with our Head of Sales and Solutions Development, Steve Bentley, to discuss the progression of our specialist Engineering, Technology and Learning studios!

Engineering, Learning, Technology: Back to our roots with Steve Bentley

Welcome to a new era of Bloc Digital. An exciting time as we develop our current offerings and create dedicated studios to meet our growing industry reach.

A message from our founders: We're evolving!

Bloc Digital will strengthen its growth in the space sector with an R&D presence at Space Park Leicester.

Bloc Digital lands at Space Park Leicester

Two of our apprentices share their experiences, their routes to industry and their tips for aspiring techies.

Investing in apprenticeships: Meet Alex and Jade

We take a step back and look to the future… and review some of the next tech trends.

Our top tech trends for 2022

As 2021 draws to a close, Co-Founder Chris Hotham shares our 12 Days of Bloc – the facts and figures that summarise our year.

12 Days of Bloc: Our year in numbers

Explore how we’re innovating sustainability through Industry 4.0 and virtual environments as COP26 continues.

Sustainability Spotlight: Innovating the path towards sustainable business growth

The creativity, growth, and pioneering vision at the heart of Bloc Digital is being celebrated as we secure our latest award – this time in the field of innovation.

Bloc Digital celebrates excellence in innovation win

Creative, digital and immersive technologies are evolving the marketing strategy landscape. We explore how we’re harnessing our disciplines to drive this digital acceleration.

Accelerate your marketing with creative and digital tech

Our legacy app will see the Derby Ram Trail return in colourful AR form.

The Derby Ram Trail lives on in new realities with our legacy app

We celebrate the success of what has been an epic event of discovery by diving into the numbers and sharing our highlights.

The Derby Ram Trail in numbers

We’ve been collaborating across our studios to fill Derby with colour through the city’s Ram Trail.

From first steps to stepping along the Derby Ram Trail

virtURL® | Powered By Bloc: is our first dedicated product roll-out and an exciting enhancement to the Bloc Digital offering.

Bloc Digital's First Product Launch, virtURL®

Celebtrate the launch of the Derby Ram Trail with a first look at our R.A.M design.

R.A.M Revealed: Meet our Derby Ram Trail Sculpture

Bloc releases a first look at the Derby Ram Trail app as we count down to the highly anticipated event launch.

First look at Bloc's Derby Ram Trail App revealed

We’ve rounded up the most important metrics from web to branding to help you adapt your marketing efforts towards changed customer behaviours.

COVID-19 Marketing: The stats that matter from web to branding

The art of visualisations is often about creating a sense of the future – a vision of a development or an experience of new architecture – but when we were approached by our clients Verve Properties to support activity in a city centre site there was a delightful twist...

St. Bartholomew's Hospital: A historical Arch Viz showcase!

We love a bit of number crunching – the facts and figures that provide the vital insights into the motivations, hearts and minds of the modern home buyer. We've gathered those all-important stats and here they are…

Top capture stats for today's home buyers

A time for reflection, we mark a year from the first lockdown by sharing our clients’ positive news stories and tales of resilience.

A year on from lockdown: Celebrating client resilience

Maximising off-plan sales to help sell luxury properties with visual appeal… selling idylic lifestyles with both interior and exterior CGIs!

Munster Road CGIs: Luxury show & TEll

Ever tried to read signage or advertising but travel past before it’s possible? Rule number one when it comes to large format graphics – prioritise legibility!

Window and large format graphics: A quick guide

The typical length for the full home buyers' cycle can be anywhere between 11-27 months. This cycle can be broken down into 5 stages, all just as important as each other.

The new home buyers journey: Converting online footprint to purchase footfall

Find out how our animation team is pushing the boundaries with impactful visuals and engaging storytelling.

From engines to dragons: The art of animation

An effective personal LinkedIn profile can help build your network and develop opportunities. Here’s how to create one...

How to create an effective personal LinkedIn profile

From physical footfall to online footprints, the rapid digital progression of property marketing is clear. By providing digital solutions to digital problems, developers and estate agents can create a new world of readily available information...

*Alert* Digital shift in property marketing detected...

We caught up with Judith to find out more about her inspiration for Rameses' g-lamb-orous design.

Derby Ram Trail Artist Insights: An interview with Judith Berrill

We’re inspiring growth, investing in talent and creating a proactive workforce in 2021. While 2020 was a year of change and resilience, 2021 is one of building for the future… and our developing team is a perfect case in point.

Inspiring growth, investing in talent and developing a proactive workforce

Colour trends are a crucial part of any interior design, and it’s always important to consider expert and industry advice when it comes to creating something ‘on trend’, ‘desirable’ or ‘idyllic’ for an interior.

Colour Trends 2021: The calm, the cool and the colourful

The ‘art of property marketing’ is more than a single project in time or short-term output of effort… it’s a long game… attracting and converting – it’s all about the plan and strategy!

Presenting our new 'digital property marketing' strategy blueprint

Taking the visualisation of buildings and places to the next level, 3D modelling and immersive technologies are bringing this vision to life – improving communication before spaces are made a reality, and crucially, before mistakes may be ‘built-in’.

Modelling, immersive technology and the future of the built environment

CG Virtual Tours are no longer exclusive to those million-pound homes! They’re interactive, accessible and engaging… discover their importance when selling to the modern-day home buyer.

Brownsea View: Property CGI show and tell

While 2020 has brought unprecedented change and challenges and to local and global organisations, this week has been one for welcome celebration!

Bloc Digital take home two awards in a bloc-buster week

Through the power of photorealistic renders you can generate more leads, tender accuratly, increase off-plan sales and more.

The secret selling power of CGI's...

Don't just choose a colour that looks nice, choose one that works with our guide to colour and branding.

Choose the right colours for your brand

The charity project will bring science, community, vision and learning together in a space tailor-made to inspire – and with these core values at our heart the Bloc family were delighted to get involved.

Sherwood Observatory: Brining an 'out of this world' visitor attraction to life

Read our strategy for locating and influencing a target audience as part of a lead generation campaign.

Lead generation on LinkedIn: A guide

This month we’re celebrating 20 years of Bloc – 20 years of innovation, creativity and pushing the boundaries; 20 years since the Bloc vision was first brought to life.

Building bloc's: Bloc Digital in 20 words

From early start-up days and home offices to multiple awards, a US base and a family of companies. It’s been a whirlwind of a journey since directors Keith Cox and Chris Hotham first brought the Bloc vision to life 20 years ago.

History, ethos and 2020 vision: An interview with directors Keith Cox and Chris Hotham

Developing new ways for clients to reach customers, here’s how we’ve been supporting the transition to the socially-distanced, new ‘virtual’ normal with our virtual event product.

Bloc Digital at Farnborough International Airshow: Innovating the shift to the virtual world

Over the years myself and the Bloc team have supported market-leading multinational companies to exhibit at Farnborough – helping engage visitors with innovative digital solutions. Despite COVID-19, this year is no different.

Bloc Digital at Farnborough Internation Airshow: Driving real world impact

In the early ‘start up’ days myself and fellow director Chris Hotham had made do with home offices, then came our first rented space.

Thank you Stanton Young

Immersive tech business Bloc Digital and University of Derby are announcing a new collaborative working partnership and the relocation of Bloc’s digital visualisation studio to the University’s Enterprise Centre.

Growth and innovation drives Bloc Digital move to University of Derby's Enterprise Centre

You’ve done the research, identified the benefits and have a business case for creating a Virtual Reality (VR) experience, so what’s next?

Implementing virtual reality into your business

As the new normal continues to take hold, businesses across the globe agree we’re entering a new age of communication – one with a permanently changed world of work and learning. Digital is paving the way forward – keeping organisations connected both

Beyond video communication: Virtual and VR tools for learning, meetings and events

A growing number of organisations are looking to digital experiences to engage visitors now and in the future. For some it’s been about bringing these experiences into our homes, while others are turning their attention to life after lockdown.

AR Environments for public engagement

Over the last few years real time rendering has become far more powerful and, with the addition of real time ray tracing, the workflow is starting to become a viable alternative rendering method for high quality animation.

What could real time rendering mean for the future of digital visualisation?

Monday morning and working life has a new look and a different perspective. In less than a week we’ve created a new normal.

'Business as usual'... The new normal...

Having been in the creative industry for over 45 years we’ve seen many ups and downs in the global economic landscape. Focus on the future, think long-term and stay resilient. Let’s get through this – together!

Coronavirus and marketing: How to look after your brand and plan for the future

Businesses are using the technology to improve their marketing strategies and production processes. Consider how it can be incorporated into your business structure. Is your business ready for the future?

News & Insights

Celebrating Tenpin Derby’s Opening Night

The Battle of Cambrai and Richard’s Story...

Bloc Digital Inc. Secures Second US Office!

Bloc Digital Conquers the Wolf Run!

Bloc Digital Sponsors The Darley Park Weekender

Mayor of Wichita Lily Wu Visits Bloc Digital

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