Search
Emma Downey
- 3 min
Does your logo let your social media down?
There's something quite powerful about a well-designed logo. It can attach itself to your memory in extraordinary ways, change your mood with colour psychology and influence the decisions we make subconsciously. By identifying what makes your business unique, you or your designer can develop a logo design that triggers an emotional connection to your product or service among your target audience. You want your logo to define your company quickly but do so originally and creat
Emma Downey
- 5 min
Battle of the flex: Does Denmark do it better than the UK
Before I had kids I had a view about being a working parent. It was pretty simple, nothing would change. I’ll work full time and be a parent too. Make a career. Enjoy motherhood. Why did I think like that? Because that is pretty much what I’ve seen around me in Denmark for years. Somehow, they’ve cracked flexible working in the true sense of the word. Perhaps because childcare is a third of the price compared to England or because men have huge flexibility too. I didn’t know
Emma Downey
- 3 min
3 make-up products to take you from Workaday to Working it...
It’s the last day of the working week, it’s Friyay! You’ve arranged to meet your friends for cocktails straight from work; I mean why not, I miss those days! So how do you get that effortless evening makeup look without breaking the bank balance, without dragging your whole makeup bag with you and without taking an hour to get ready? Because that means less cocktail time! Here are my Top 3 Products to get you that day to night look in minutes! Let’s assume you’ve got your day
Emma Downey
- 3 min
Styling YOUR Content to Represent YOU…
As markets become saturated, how our brands appear online is becoming ever-more crucial. Images act as content for our social media posts, adverts for our services and convertors for our sales funnels so standing out from the crowd is just a teensy bit important. Unless you’ve already used a photographer for your own branding imagery, styled stock imagery may just not be on your radar. But what exactly are Styled Stock Images and are they just another fad? Styled Stock photos
Emma Downey
- 5 min
Why Feeling Like an Imposter May be a Good Thing
The imposter syndrome is something that is felt by successful, talented individuals who cannot accept their success and live in a state of anxiousness because they feel they are ‘faking it’ and that they will get ‘found out’ because they are a ‘fraud’. If you are struggling with imposter syndrome you are likely to attribute your success to some form of luck - you feel you fooled the interviewer, someone helped you at the right moment, no-one else must of applied for the posit
Emma Downey
- 3 min
Why Diet Plans Don’t Work (for everyone)
We’ve all been there, sat on a website and NEARLY bought a meal plan after scrolling past hundreds of testimonials of body transformations, all claiming that this was “the diet for them.” The trainer or website gives you a set diet plan that you have follow every day for 12 weeks and regardless of how you are feeling that day, you have to follow it. While I have seen amazing results because after all they are putting people into a calorie deficit (the underlying crux of weigh
Emma Downey
- 3 min
How a break up, quitting my job and losing friends MADE my year...
The period of the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017 will remain an absolutely pivotal time in my life. I won’t bore you with the really gory details (plus – it doesn’t deserve my bandwidth) but I’m going to tell you how a 5 year relationship ending, quitting my first ‘proper’ job and losing a whole bunch of friends made me the HAPPIEST I’ve ever been in my life. 1. The Break Up Break ups are SO sucky. We all know it. Whilst this one was inevitable, it left me reassessing ever
{"items":["5c8923518cd274001cbc9285","5c8923511a2ec5001c7f1f8c","5c892351b9c841001c689700","5c8923513d208c001c7e3b7d","5c8923512b8d2a001c2dab77","5c8923513ab98b001c7f6e05","5c8923511a2ec5001c7f1f91","5c8923517747e2001c6e2564"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":30,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":32,"galleryMargin":0,"scatter":0,"rotatingScatter":"","chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCropRatios":"","columnWidths":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":true,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryTextAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"nothing","fullscreen":true,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","slideAnimation":"SCROLL","scrollDirection":0,"scrollDuration":400,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imagePlacementAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"jsonStyleParams":"","gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":940,"allowTitle":true,"allowContextMenu":true,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"itemBorderColor":{"themeName":"color_12","value":"rgba(204,204,204,0.75)"},"showVideoPlayButton":true,"galleryLayout":2,"targetItemSize":940,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":940,"galleryWidth":972,"galleryHeight":0,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}