By Adam Haworth, on May 18th, 2012 
Over the last six months we have been making a conscious effort to reduce the amount of paper we use, while doing this I have come across some really great applications. This post is really about some great software you need to be using as a creative for collaboration, note making, sharing backing up and so much more. Evernote
Lets kick things off with Evernote, it may have been around [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on May 8th, 2012 
You’ve probably heard of or at least seen some of TBWA’s, work being one of the most talented design agencies on the world it’s no surprise they have won the 2012 One Show Design awards along with countless other awards for this campaign.
This particular campaign really caught my eye for a number of reasons, I was wondering what on earth is going on when I first saw it, then [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on April 30th, 2012 
You may have come across some of these before but apparently we have missed them until now. We all remember the 90’s and the web in the 90’s well some people seem to have missed the passing of the millennium.
These have to be some of the worst websites in existence, some particularly scary but others will make you smile and really cringe.
Just to make your day and before [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on April 28th, 2012 
It’s that time of the month and it’s our second Best Of The Month selection. We have some really great finds this month from all around the world. Mostly Photography this month, but we have had such a hard group to pick from after finding some stunning art work.
We really hope you enjoy this month’s selection, if you have any of your own work you would like to suggest [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on April 24th, 2012 
Who you may be asking? Well for those who aren’t one of his 1000+ followers on Instagram Last Jedi or Kyle Walrond is an extremely talented street photographer, who I just so happened to bump into a few weeks back purely by chance after he recognised me from a picture he had taken on the London Underground.
Trying to get ‘Natural’ looking street photography has always been something I have [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on April 21st, 2012 
Video adverts can create a brand with the digital world that we live in today there is nothing more powerful than a cool and impacting video campaign. We have taken a look at some of the most recent and not so recent powerful advertising campaigns from around the world.
We will also be looking at some print commercials over the next few days so keep a look out or subscribe [...]
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By Adam, on April 16th, 2012 
I have been back in Herefordshire this weekend, it’s been so nice to have a break from the city. Amazing London may be, but it can get a bit grey and hectic after a while and what better way to have a break than go back home to the countryside of Herefordshire.
As usual I’ve been out on some lengthy walks with Archie and what a delight it is to [...]
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By Adam, on March 31st, 2012 
We have decided to have a little feature each month where we pick 5 of the best images, drawings, videos, graphics or any other creative work that we have found and love. We will only pick 5 each month and the 5 will be work we could have found anywhere. The work also doesn’t have to have been made in the month, for all we care it could have been [...]
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By Adam, on March 28th, 2012 
The vintage look is really becoming a popular style in print and web design recently. From vintage comic styles to rustic leathers and textures combined with complex hand drawn patterns.
We are going to show you how to create a super quick and simple vintage style waved label using Illustrator and Photoshop (Photoshop for the style). You can use the same technique for many other things and it really is [...]
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By Adam, on March 25th, 2012 
Typography is a beautiful way to communicate to an audience using words and art. Typography can be visually stunning but clear and eye catching. We take a look at some of the most inspiring and creatively beautiful typography.
Typography has been a key focus in the new Lakewood media website, from the homepage intro to the page sections headings. It was clear from the start that we wanted to communicate [...]
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By Adam, on March 17th, 2012 
As those familiar with London will know Highbury fields is a beautiful area in Islington near the Emirates Stadium. The fields are surrounded by some stunning building which I couldn’t help but snap a few images of.
Here are a bunch of my favourites, I have also made the red door into a 640×960 res version that will look pretty dam good as an iPhone background.
Feel free to download, [...]
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By Adam Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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 Haworth, 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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By Adam Haworth, on September 12th, 2011 
So who would have though a river in England would be so fun in September? Archie obviously, he seems to prefer swimming to walking, maybe it because he grew up next to a lake, who knows?
I started shooting high speed shots in the water a while ago, after experimenting and watching Archie jumping around in the river. The end results were very different to say the least, with some [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on September 12th, 2011 
What really makes a stunning, breathtaking portrait work? I believe a portrait is more than an image it should capture the subject and tell a story. Take a look at the stunning images below, all show breathtaking skill but in a simple effortless way.
The images below are some stunning pieces from various photographers all credited below.
by Stockholm–Syndrome on Deviantart
by aleksandra88 on [...]
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By Adam Haworth, on September 10th, 2011 
It’s been overdue and waiting in line, but finally we have been working on the Lakewood Media site and bringing it up to date and giving it complete makeover.
Unfortunately we have started again with the blog, but if you would like to see a post from the old site just send us an email as we will get a copy for you.
Have a [...]
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