Manik Syndicate

Manik Syndicate is up on the first floor at 1024 Chickpet. You have to climb a narrow set of stairs to find our door. Chickpet is a real maze, and sometimes people get a bit lost looking for specific shop numbers, but once you find the 1024 building, you’re basically there. Being on the first floor gives us a little bit of a view of the street below, which is always crammed with people and carts and activity. We’ve been operating from this same spot for a good while now. The office isn't very large, but we make it work with the space we have. There are usually boxes everywhere and a few of us working at the old wooden tables. It gets a bit stuffy in the afternoons, so we usually keep the windows wide open, even if it brings in some of the dust and noise from the street. We don’t have a big neon sign outside, just the name Manik Syndicate painted so people know they’ve reached the right place. Most of our visitors are people we’ve known and worked with for many years. We aren't really interested in being flashy or sounding corporate. We just like to get our work done and then head home for the evening. The floorboards creak a little when you walk across the room, but that’s just the character of these old buildings. It’s a busy life here, but it is our life and we like it.