Yorkshire Puddings

I have been looking for alternative creative outlets this week, and today I turned my attention to Yorkshire puddings. I was pleased with the outcome they were tall and didn't taste too bad either, I have received some Yorkshire pudding based tutelage from my housemate who is from Yorkshire so I had a good starting point.

Holiday

Holidays are here (not that you can call it that I just don't need to go to uni for a few weeks) for the first week I am going home I have my laptop and all the files I need to do something, but I have a feeling that I won't be as productive as normal. Because my parents are taking a trip up north the second week I will be back to Carlisle and with no distractions, well apart from self made ones. The image on the mac is of my website, it is a bit of a work in progress but feel free to visit it www.tomtaylordesigns.co.uk

Chinese Supermarket

I found a Chinese supermarket around the back of the train station a few weeks ago and today on my way to staples I went in, I got myself some soy sauce and sweet chili sauce, I made myself some chili chicken, very good value for money.

YCN is done

I handed in my YCN today to be posted down to London for the deadline on Friday. I wrapped it nicely in brown wrapping paper it looked the part. I really enjoyed working on the project first time around and also working on it again to get it to a standard I was happy with, which I am.

Ordinarily I would celebrate with a good cup of coffee, but because I quit that I will have some warm juice and a biscuit to celebrate instead.

New Life

Before deciding to become a graphic designer I worked on a farm, my family have worked on farms for generations. My uncle Jimmy is a shepherd on a farm in Northumberland and on Saturday night I looked round the sheds with him, it's early days as lambing goes so we just had one in the hour, still a fantastic thing to witness.

Photographic experiments

Amongst many thing today (for example making a kick ass potato bake) I experimented with photographing my work eventually I worked out the problems and it seemed to work quite well.

Illuminating the wall

I went along to illuminating the wall tonight in Carlisle. It was part of a much bigger event, lighting Hadrians wall. All along the wall was lit and in Carlisle this was celebrated with a procession through part of town with the crowd carrying flaming torches, the event was topped of with a fantastic fireworks display. Some great, if not unusual, music was also played.

Collecting

Apart from a stamp collection, that I regrettably stopped paying attention to when I was about 14, I have never had a proper collection of anything. I knew I wanted one and I finally decided that my love of books had to play a part, I have always liked Penguins in particular, and wrote about them as part of my dissertation, hopefully this will be the first of many. This particular book was published in 1940, I look forward to reading it.

Books

I have been working on book jacket redesigns, for some books that I recently read. The main character is an ex military policeman who now lives a drifter lifestyle, I felt for this reason to include scenes or roads and tar-mac that also relate to the story.

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Refining YCN

I have been spending a little time refining my YCN hope it's about there now, sure I will be told tomorrow if it isn't.

For Whom The Bell Tolls

I would never say that I'm a religious man, if fact far from it, but today, while going to pick up my glasses, I was drawn to the bell ringing in the cathedral it was so commanding and sounded beautiful. It got me thinking about how far the sound would have traveled in times gone by, today the sound was muffled by the constant inane droll of contemporary life: car engines, air conditioning, a distant aircraft. I know what I would personally prefer to listen to.

DCFS

Some of my work today, the other four were taking too long to load, and I'm a busy man, the point is to raise awareness of the undesirable effects of underage drinking. This campaign is aimed at under 18's who drink so I thought it right to put them in places were they might drink. Thanks to Emily for helping me take the pictures, I would have felt silly doing it on my own.The images all need a bit refining and I might choose a new typeface.

need more maps

  

I do need more maps I photoshoped the two I had together, unfortunately though they do not extend as much as I would like I think I'm going to need at least one more. These maps really are so interesting, they are a real look into the past.

Bookcase Carlisle

My housemate introduced me to a second had book store in Carlisle that I had no idea about today. It was gigantic, I wanted some old maps and got three all around 75 years old for £9, I can see me spending a lot of hours in there now.

William Elliot 1817

Continuing on the family tree theme this man is my great great great grandfather William Elliot. He was born on the first of March 1817, he was married twice his second wife was 47 years younger than he was, during his life he fathered 26 children the last being born when he was 71.