My name is Blake McLeod (they/them), I am the Creative Director and founder of CINIC Studio. To me, the act of making is medicine. It helps me process and understand my ongoing healing journey, and allows me to share through expressive means. After being burned one too many times, I needed somewhere that felt safe and limitless for me as a creator – CINIC Studio was born.

I work in a variety of mediums in my own practice and with clients and collaborators. Connecting visuals, words, and concepts through drawing, writing and illustrating. Digital design of publications, creative texts, and promotional branding materials. Capturing expression, experience, light and composition through photography and videography. Producing images, words, and colours for clients and my own reflections with screen printing, zines, and prose. Storytelling is the centre of it all - sharing the experience and reaching a hand out to say “you’re not alone, I promise.”

I value working with collaborators and clients that demonstrate a confident sense of ethics while still being open to conversation and learning. I wish to demystify the professional creative realm as I make my way through it, in the hopes that it can create a safer path for those near and after me.