By Adam, on February 20th, 2012 
It’s no secret that we are big, big fans of WordPress. In fact we worship the content management system and are somewhat experts when it comes to creating cool sites using WordPress. So we have put together a list of our favourite and must have plugins, all of them are free and super easy for everyone to use.
In no particular order as all of them are must have’s, some [...]
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By Adam, on February 17th, 2012 
Another tutorial as promised, this week we have a look at how to ignore text wrap a obvious follow from last weeks how to text wrap tutorial. This is great for adding captions to images that have text wrap enabled, you can do so much with this and its super quick and easy.
I think its the same method across all versions of Indesign but this is on [...]
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By Adam, on February 10th, 2012
Textwrap is super easy and fast as you can see above, it can help make your documents look ten times better in an instant. We are using Indesign CS5 but it should be the same method across all versions of Indesign. I will make another quick tutorial soon with more basics like how to ignore textwrap.
We get asked this one a lot, so I thought I should do [...]
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By Adam, on February 8th, 2012 
You may have seen our photography collection ‘From Indonesia With Love’ now meet the lady behind it. The From Indonesia With Love (FIWL) blog launched on Monday night, designed by Lakewood media the FIWL blog is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog from Dinar Banfield.
From Indonesia With Love has been an ongoing project for over a year now, the design [...]
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By Adam, on January 31st, 2012 
So I have been working on a bit of a new thing recently… A fashion / lifestyle blog. It’s a nice change of scenery, and working with new styles is always good. We have been working on so many different prototype designs and the final design is yet to be finished.
I jut wanted to share the progress so far to get an idea of the look and feel.
The [...]
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By Adam, on January 7th, 2012 
You may have seen the Country Life photography collection (see here), well I’m hoping to have a bit of a change of scene with the new project we are working on. With the new project I’m hoping to capture London from a different and unique view, a very hard challenge I know. London must be one of the most photographed cities in the world.
Using a combination of what we [...]
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By Adam, on January 4th, 2012 
I should start off by saying happy New Year, being the first post of 2012. I hope the New Year brings good fortunes to you all.
2012 is going to be an interesting year especially being in London with the 2012 Olympics, really not looking forward to the tube with the millions of people around but it will all be fun I hope.
I was hoping to share some pictures [...]
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By Adam, on December 16th, 2011 
We have been painting it green with Herefordshire based company SP Heating Services, not literally but metaphorically speaking. Having established themselves as heating engineers offering services to commercial and domestic customers, SP Heating Services have decided to help people reduce their carbon footprint by offering various heating services and installations including Biomass boilers, wood stoves and soon solar and wind power.
SP Heating Services came to Lakewood Media to help [...]
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By Adam, on December 8th, 2011 
I almost forgot it was Christmas this year, I couldn’t believe November had passed. But there is always one great way of bringing the Christmas spirit to life. A classic German Christmas market (okay two), the smell, lights, people and the food all brings Christmas to life and makes for such a beautiful atmosphere.
I went to Hyde Parks Christmas market first, the event takes the appropriate name of Winter [...]
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By Adam, on November 18th, 2011 
Combining art forms is something that is usually not performed with great success, but artist Ben Heine as managed to create a worldwide following and introduced stupendous success with his Pencil Vs Camera project. His entire portfolio is breathtaking and his work can be seen in Vouge Brasil, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, MSN and endless other highly recognised places.
What really got me was his Pencil Vs Camera collection. Combining [...]
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By Adam, on November 7th, 2011 
Can you believe its November the 7th, well I can’t it seems like just a few weeks ago we were stood cold watching the fireworks of 2010 celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes attempt to destroy parliament.
I decided to travel back to Hereford as it would be nice to be home to watch the fireworks, anyway we went to local fireworks display at Hereford Racecourse. I decided to take [...]
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By Adam, on November 2nd, 2011 
I thought I would do a little review on a new notebook/laptop I had for a few weeks, it’s a Samsung 400B2B it’s relatively new and has the new Intel Sandybridge range of processors in it.
The reason I wanted to put the review on here was because it’s a business laptop and it’s very well suited for in the field work regards photography, design and even copy writing.
So [...]
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By Adam, on October 10th, 2011 
You may be wondering where we have been the last week or so, don’t worry we haven’t got lost we have been working on our office in Islington, London which we share with Lakewood IT Support.
We now have a full office in Islington, London and Bodenham, Hereford both locations offer website design, branding, photography and even content copy writing.
Don’t worry if you are a customer based in [...]
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By Adam, on September 30th, 2011 
We are just coming to the end of completing a small project for The Merchants House, a client in Leominster, Herefordshire. We would like to share the ideas behind the project and show how we worked to create a website on a smaller scale project.
I thought it would be nice to show how we work with small projects and how we create what our clients are looking for. From [...]
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By Adam, on September 18th, 2011 
With summer coming to an end and autumn upon us, it’s my favourite time of year to get out with the camera and get some great landscape images. With the evenings getting shorter and the leaves starting to drop, its the perfect setting of colourful, deep and moving photography.
From sunrises to sunsets the end of summer is such a beautiful time.
I have put together a collection of really [...]
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