Forest...

I went up to Edinburgh with some friends, to visit another friend. On the Sunday morning she took us to this amazing cafe called Forest, a non-profit, run entirely by volunteers, vegan cafe. It was a huge, rather cold room (people kept leaving the front door open) with battered sofas and massive coffee tables. Emily (vegan) and I ordered the full English vegan brunch - I dont think I've ever eaten a better breakfast, whilst being able to feel good about the complete lack of animal products I was ingesting.
The best part of the whole experience was the required trip into the basement to use the toilet. The stairwell walls were covered in amazing illustrations and there was a darkroom and studio avaliable for use if you asked nicely!
I couldn't resists taking a few photos, if only point out that Leeds more places like this!!!






















http://www.theforest.org.uk/

Message and Interpretation - Response

3 A3 Scale Posters (2:1 format)
















The second part of our Message and Interpretation brief, using the word Selective as a stimulus

A Creative Countdown...

We were given a brief that required us to produce 10 A6 postcards using illustrator relating to 10 things we had learnt since starting our course. These could be things specific to the college/course or things related to the city, or moving away from home.

We had to use Adobe Illustrator to produce these postcards and were only allowed to use type and numerical forms, no image. We had to randomly select two colours that we had to use throughout the designs, now other colour was allowed.


These are my 10 resolutions

Banksy

Having spent a fair amount of time in London in the past few years I've noticed the random graffiti around the city. I can't really say I'm a huge fan of Banksy's work, but you have to admit that it is pretty clever. Some of the images are a little disturbing but most of the time they make a political statement of some sort (don't expect to explain these, I'm useless when it comes to politics) Anyway, I've found a few images of my favourites...



"Pooh" - This makes me so sad, but I still love it.





"Red Carpet Rats"






"Balloon Girl" - This is my favourite Banksy piece. I always feel so sad when i see this picture, but I love it. I think that the balloon represents the important things we need to hold onto...plus I just like balloons

The best sandwhich shop in Leeds

Chris came to stay last weekend, and for want of something better to do on Saturday we decided to walk into the city centre and get some lunch.
We went to a deli in Queens Arcade called Pickles and Potter and proceeded to choose from a large range of sandwhiches and salads. I chose the recommended favourite (i like having difficult decisions made for me sometimes) which was Tuna with lemon and black pepper mayonnaise, sundried tomatoe chutney and something drizzled in pesto. Chris chose the "Award winning Beef" which looked amazing and apparently had horseraddish mustard in it. My sandwhich was incredible! I have never tasted a better sandwhich, and I've eaten my fair share of sandwhiches.

The deii itself was voted best sandwhich shop in Leeds, and I can't say I'm surprised. The shop is really tiny, they're expanding so that they have more seating next door. They sell loads of preserves and condements, not paticularly conventional ones, but they all sounded pretty good. I am tempted to go back and buy the gin and lime jam.

Anyway, I erge those requiring sandwhiches of high quality to visit this lovely little shop and enjoy which ever takes their fancy.

Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=queens+arcade,+leeds&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl