Creative Journeys: Design Academy, powered by Squarespace, is a series of free, in-person and online events taking place across Aotearoa New Zealand in 2025.

Join us online for a lunch and learn session with Hannah & Nick Ippolito of Squarekicker.

Session topic: Transform Your Design Business: Achieving More with Squarespace

Squarespace is a powerful platform for designers—and with the right tools, it can become the foundation for a streamlined, profitable, and scalable design business.

In this session, we’ll explore how professional designers are elevating their workflows, delivering high-end results faster, and building sustainable businesses—all while staying on a platform their clients love. You don’t need to move to more complex web builders to gain creative freedom. Squarespace can offer both the flexibility and the finesse to create truly custom experiences.

You’ll learn how to:

• Streamline your design process using templates that enhance creativity and efficiency
• Confidently customise client websites to achieve polished, bespoke results—without touching code
• Discover how to push design boundaries in Squarespace while keeping your workflow efficient
• Get tips for presenting premium solutions to clients and pricing them effectively

We’ll also show how SquareKicker’s pro design extension fits seamlessly into this workflow—unlocking custom layouts, advanced animations, and beautiful interactions, all directly within Squarespace.

This session is ideal for freelancers and studios alike—anyone looking to scale their business without sacrificing design freedom or simplicity

Featured Speakers: Nick and Hannah Ippolito

Nick and Hannah Ippolito are the Co-Founders of SquareKicker, Pro Tools for Squarespace. Built in Nelson, New Zealand, SquareKicker gives designers full creative freedom—without needing to write a single line of code.

SquareKicker’s powerful extension allows designers to add custom animations, layouts, and advanced styling directly within Squarespace, unlocking a level of design flexibility that was previously only possible with custom code. In 2024, SquareKicker expanded further with the launch of a curated Squarespace template store—an industry-first marketplace where top designers can showcase and sell high-quality, customizable templates.

What started as a small team of four in 2020 has grown into a thriving, Nelson-based company, trusted by professional designers worldwide. SquareKicker is dedicated to helping designers create, scale, and elevate their businesses by removing technical barriers and providing the tools they need to design with confidence.

Powered by Design Assembly and Squarespace, Creative Journeys: Design Academy events are also coming to: Ōtautahi Christchurch, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Kirikiriroa Hamilton, and Online.