Victorian Christmas Cake  Ingredients   225g Sultanas 225g Raisins 175g Currents 190g Glacé cherries 75g Minced peel 250ml cheap sherry 50g Self raising flour 225g White flour Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon mixed spice 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon  175g butter 175g soft brown sugar 2 tablespoons black treacle...

Victorian Christmas Cake

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQp_PQX8xrGNzhhEwtK7R_hOXcVyrfagea51QEkTZJI/edit

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Elizabeth's Design Constellation Quiz

https://www.artofvisualdesign.com/aesthetic-quiz

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lo-cafe | NotchNook 

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Sierra/a5402a9c-d0ea-4e60-a1bc-68574d54950f

Who.needs an alarm clock when you have 5.8 earthquake at 5:30am to get you out of bed. 😬

Weekend walkies. A regular route but still finding new things to look at.

What is Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager so damn hard to understand? Tried to get help from GPT to set it up but even she couldn’t work it out.

Time to focus on the details of this logo I’ve been working on.

On the left is the initial letter of a logo I’m working on. Client feedback: “Could you make the M less pointy.” So I scaled it up,  selected all handles and took a screengrab and sent it to them unchanged (image on the right). Approved. 😜

Dialling in some details here. More on this later I think.

What music player do you use for gapless flac playback on the Mac? VLC has its limits and a quarter second gap between tracks on a live concert recording is daft.

Monotone with Zerocam so I didn’t need Mono app.

I woke this morning with the realisation that I never saw my Dad on a bike. I don’t know why that hit so hard, or why I never realised it before. Memories are weird.

Anyone discovered a tool to manage all the subscriptions a design business needs to operate?

Still so much to master but I’m beginning to understand what I need to work on.

A client’s been holding off paying a bill. So I took some of their product samples they’d sent me to the market to make a few bucks. Didn’t count for the distraction of buying a few things myself. Left with more that more than I arrived with but not by much.

I really love brand work. There’s so much to explore. Recently I’ve been elbows deep in repositioning our company. If you have a 1:11 to spare here’s a teaser:

https://bit.ly/3zaIL9R

Have had a very productive morning watching the sun rise. Was inspired to title one of my slides in this talk “THE DUALITY OF CATS”. Feeling good about that.

Being able to plan and art direct a 3D product shoot is an amazing feeling. Right: previous product shot. Left: new shot. Created in half a day.

Weekend walkies. Some of you might remember a similar shot from a while ago. But today I had a different lens on my camera which changed everything. Really happy with how the steps and the waterfall relate ✨

Weekend walkies. This one was amazing. I realise you can’t zoom in here, but on the ridge, where the left clouds meet the mountain is hut. That’s my next mission. It’s also another half days walk.

Everyone on the team is being super nice about it, but I probably shouldn’t have picked a new typeface the day we launch our rebrand. 😬

I’m no plant expert but I think some of these seeds were not at the front of the queue when common sense was being handed out. One is literally growing the wrong way. Unless there’s a gravitational anomaly in my house.

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever create another  film poster as cool as this one. (I did a limited edition screen print that was glow-in-the-dark).

What have I been up to today? Well, mostly unpublishing websites from clients who haven’t paid their bills. What’s up with that?

I realise I’m a little late. But today I’m starting our traditional Christmas cake. I’ve digitised my grandmothers recipe, written on the back of an envelope if anyone wants to join me. 


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQp_PQX8xrGNzhhEwtK7R_hOXcVyrfagea51QEkTZJI/edit

Today is a day of celebration and gratitude for my wonderful family. And eating cake.

Weekend walkies and I kept hearing a noise in the distance so I headed off the path and a little way off was a wild wind chime.

You lot get a sneak peak at this week’s series update.

A twist on the ‘I’m a hard worker’ brag. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jasp.13062

Trying my hardest to do good design but the client’s logo is so awful it’s killing the vibes.

This is the most significant photo I have taken. It was taken 20 years ago to the day from a departure gate at Bangkok airport. There was a young woman a few meters away, passing the time her own way. 30 minutes later our worlds collided as we sat down in seats B and C… ✨

A fun little design site. What’s your sign?

https://www.artofvisualdesign.com/aesthetic-quiz

A sneak peek at a something I’m popping into Friday’s talk. Because life’s too short too take yourself too seriously.

Think about the last time you started a new job. What were the things that made it great? What could have been better? 
Our new designer starts on Monday and I’m open to advice on how to ensure the experience is a positive one. Thank you.

2nd round of pitching via Pitch.com. The analytics are gold: Client asked for more info about our UX process and more creative examples. 5 people spent 4 secs on average on the UX process slides (not enough time to read more than headlines) and +3 mins on creative images.

We are celebrating this weekend! ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’ is in town! I appreciate it’s not everyone’s idea of a night out… but I made a 5 minute artwork because it is to us :)

I always forget how long it takes to bake this. (It came out of the oven at around midnight…) And now I need to wrap it up and feed it booze till Christmas. Because that’s what my Grandmother would do.

Currently re/reading this book. And I’m so glad I am, not least because as I opened it a crisp $100 bill fell out. 

That’s the kind of bookmark I can appreciate (even though it’s been over 10 years since I last read it — what was I thinking!?).

Rather than get frustrated which having to create pitch decks in GoogleSlides I’ve been focussing my efforts convincing clients to try Pitch. Last week I convinced a client to make the change. Small quality of life improvements matter.

Looking for an assistant again. Main tasks I need help with: email marketing + potential client follow-ups. Budget is $20-$25/hr for up to 10 hours a week max. I’m a solo freelancer, this is the one main thing I need help on. Shoot me a DM if you’re interested! Prefer US-based.

A little social content for a sustainable jewellery company

First in a series that reflects the studios new creative positioning

New macro adapter arrived in the post! Heading outside to play with it 🍄‍🟫

The new game from this crew looks as good as their last. 

https://weastcoast.games/products/desperate-oasis

Just saw this Mac app. Interesting UI solution to the notch 

https://lo.cafe/notchnook

This is a new one: browsing a font library. Found one I liked. Check pricing. Find out that if I wanted to use it to base a logotype on it’s an extra $249.

Still waiting for a new adapter for my camera to up my fungi game… but in the meantime I am making use of my new lights.

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