Design and the Market: Icecream Architecture and 'Starter for 6'

Starter for 6 is a highly successful enterprise training programme that supports up and coming entrepreneurs from creative industries across Scotland.  They aim to help turn creative ideas into successful businesses by raising the awareness and profile of talented entrepreneurs in Scotland.


The programme provides successful applicants with the following:

• Four enterprise training sessions that are designed to provide you with the business skills to turn your idea into a reality.  
• Peer Mentoring and Coaching Support
• The opportunity to network and share ideas with like minded entrepreneurs in training sessions and events.
• The opportunity to pitch for up to £10,000 of grant funding at the end of the training programme in order to take your business forward.

Icecream architecture are an example of a company that were able to start up their business by taking part in this training programme.

Icecream architecture successfully pitched their idea and therefore received a grant award of up to £10,000.  Receiving this money gave the company the boost that they needed in order to make their idea a reality.

As part of the interview process with Icecream Architecture, we asked Desmond if he had any personal advice in starting up a business.  He told us that success would be achieved if we oozed creativity, drive and passion in the discipline we are in and had the patience to see the idea through from beginning to end.

As a group, we felt that Icecream Architecture were the perfect example of a company who had great entrepreneurial skills that have been put into action -after all they did take the initial risk to take the 'closed door profession' of architecture and reposition it to a place where people would look at it in a completely different way than ever before.

We were curious about Icecream Architecture as we were keen to find out what they do, why they do it and how they do it well.  This meant that we could really get to know how a business is run and how crucial it is to have creativity at the centre.