tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79881207669451078472011-09-03T13:56:02.590+01:00Welcome to Design Farm. We are a Creative Design Consultancy based near Pickering, North Yorkshire. We specialise in Bespoke Web Design, Logo and Branding Identity Design, Graphic Artwork Design, Promotional Marketing Material Design and General Design Services.Design Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12158933796488210447noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988120766945107847.post-15787386583242329292010-12-07T00:01:00.005Z2010-12-07T00:09:42.515Z

I've (Cheryl-ann) been blogging mad since the arrival of the snow and being home bound for 10 days has given her the time to get stuck in to the blogging world. Check out what I've been up too.Thank you for taking the time to visit.Cheryl-ann

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The snow has fallen, the car hasn't moved...we have been Studio bound for 10 days!What have we been up to?Meetings had to be rearranged but we had such a productive few days and got so much work done. We are so lucky to have a log burner in our studio, however, the stash of coal we ordered for the winter is diminishing fast. We couldn't resist a little photo shoot and play in the snow.Bog Books

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Well 2010 has been a bit of a crazy old year for Design Farm, hence the lack of blogging this year really. As well as working with existing clients to improve and update websites and promotional artwork we have worked on some great new projects and met some fab people along the way so we thought we'd show you a few examples of what we've been up to lately with a few links and stuff.Big Bear Bikes

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Well it was snow stopped play this week for us here at Design Farm so we thought we'd put our shovels to good use and make something useful out of all this lovely white stuff we got over the weekend. So, a coffee table and twelve stools was born out of the snow in the garden opposite the studio and it was great fun to do but took a few hours and two cups of tea! We are going to have some

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During the last six months Cheryl-ann and I have been working extremely hard alongside an author called Ian Bowie, artist Tim Bulmer and his wife Sarah to set up an independent publishing company where we can write, illustrate, design and publish our own range of high quality humorously illustrated books with the tongue-in-cheek tag line of "Entertaining reading for an inspirational lavatorial

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Baby Lennon has hatched!On Tuesday 22nd September 2009 at 10.48am Cheryl-ann did a bloody marvelous job giving birth to our first child, a little boy called Lennon Taylor Davies who weighed in at 7lb 12oz. Mother and baby are both doing really well and we are all settling into Levisham life comfortably! He’s as cute as can be and will hopefully take the best bits from both of us! Lennon will have

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The September 2009 issue of Your Home magazine features an article on Cheryl-ann and myself and our home.Back in November we did a photo shoot and interview at our home for Your Home magazine which. We had a fantastic couple of days full of laughs, cake and plenty of coffee! It also got us out of the studio for a change which was nice too.We had such fun dressing the cottage for the shoot. We are

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It's all go here today! Just in case you didn't see it first time around back In November 2007, a repeat of the documentary we took part in was shown on Channel 4 this morning. You can watch Vocation, Vocation, Vocation online at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/vocation-vocation-vocation/catch-up#2920683for the next 29 days (Tues 14th July)It was good fun to do and great helping out a young

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"QUICK EWE LOT, I'VE FOUND A WAY IN!""WILL EWE PUSH ME ON THE SWINGS?""WHAT ARE EWE LOT UP TO?"What a way to start the week! A local farmer has been putting his sheep into one of the fields belonging to Cheryl-ann parents recently. They are cute little things and seemingly full of mischief! I was beavering away in the studio this morning and heard a really loud sheep say 'Baaaaaa!' and I thought

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Bank Holiday Monday. A day for rest, relaxation and refeulling your energy resources for the upcoming summer. Its is a chance to sit back and think of how far you've come so far this year and also where you are going in the remainder of it.Toftly View have been doing just that, but not just over a bank holiday weekend but since they became one of our first customers in 2005. Their website has

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We are proud to say that on 23rd April in York at the Railway Museum our clients Tim & Noelle Thornton of Noelle's Cottages won Gold!'2009 Self-catering Holiday of the Year Enjoyengland Award for Excellence'. Well done to Noelle and Tim (and everyone else who has been involved over the years) for all their hard work in turning the Applestore, The Barn and The Coach House into stunning Self

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Hot off the press indeed! The front cover of the May 2009 edition of Period House Magazine features our country cottage home. Pages 62-69 feature the article about us, view a PDF version here.Back in November we did a photo shoot and interview at our home for Period House Magazine which was a fantastic couple of days full of laughs, cake and plenty of coffee! It also got us out of the studio for

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I've been meaning to blog for the past week or two but kept getting sidelined by various things, some fairly trivial and others very, very important (more on the very, very important will appear in our blog very soon) but one thing's for sure, the snow has gone...for now!Something happened the other day which set my mind off thinking about how we run our businesses and make decisions on how to

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Waking up to a white-over front garden feels the same now as it did when I was a kid! The first thought that goes through my head is...'YES! No School!'...then I realise that I left school 11 years ago! So the next thought is...'YES!...No work!'...then I realise that my studio is only 20 metres away from my house! So my final thought is...'Better get the log burner going or it'll be a cold day

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Barack Obama's election as the new President of the USA was a truly inspiring moment for billions of people all around the world. It was a moment that spoke out to people who have doubts about how successful they can be in their life by saying 'if you beleive enough in yourself and what you stand for then it can be acheived'. Yeah I know that he didn't just do it overnight or that that it was by

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With all the gloomy forecasts given by the media for business in 2009 there are a lot of people out there not feeling too confident about how things are going to play out. Probably the best thing to do to overcome this fear factor is to start planning and actioning your vision for 2009 now.What do you want to acheive this year with your business? What opportunities are there for growth? How could

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Happy New Year! After a fantastic Christmas break we are back in the studio preparing to bring you an even better service than ever before! We have been hard at work over the past few weeks refining the services and way we operate here at Design Farm.Over the coming months we will post regular articles and link to various stories online that will help, benefit, alarm, shock, motivate and inspire

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Well, as 2008 draws to a close it seems only right we take a look back at the developments and progress made by Design Farm over the past year. For us it started in a very positive way promising new and exciting people to work with as well as revisiting existing clients and offering additional services to help them develop their businesses.The year started with a bang as Tim Wilson from The

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