Mark Fletcher

Mark Fletcher – Designer

I am a freelance book production manager and publisher with over 35 years experience, specialising in illustrated art books.

Overview

I have been working in illustrated publishing since the late 1980s, having first worked at Phaidon Press as an editor. Since that time I have edited, produced, commissioned and published books with many other leading illustrated book publishers, including Mitchell Beazley, Scala Books, Merrell Publishers, Thames & Hudson and Laurence King. Most recently I was Publisher at Quintessence, a leading co-edition publisher at Quarto, where I was responsible for a $6 million business, creating and selling new titles to leading publishers in the US, UK and Australia.

Clients included HarperCollins, Rizzoli, Allen & Unwin, Octopus, Simon & Schuster, Barron's, Australian Geographic, National Geographic, Monicelli Press, Abrams.

Alongside my freelance work I run a book publisher that I founded in 2004 - 8 Books.

Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Design History Home & Garden Music Nature Photography Sports & Outdoors Writing & Publishing
Languages
English
Awards
  • Garden Writers’ Guild Inspirational Gardening Book of the Year 2000
  • Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2004
  • Shortlisted Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2013
  • Shortlisted Garden Writer's Guild Inspirational Gardening Book of the Year 2014
  • Art Book of the Year at Los Angeles Book Festival 2014

Work experience

Self-employed

May, 2015 — Present
I specialise in producing and publishing illustrated books on a wide range of subjects, but with particular specialisms in making books on design, gardening, photography, art and sport.

Quintessence Editions (Quarto Group)

Aug, 2011 — May, 2015 (over 3 years)
I ran a publishing company of ten staff - designers and editors - as part of the much larger public company, Quarto. We published, among other things, the bestselling "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" series which sold over 1 million copies.

Self-employed

Jun, 2004 — Present
I set up a new art book publisher, specialising in design books. Latterly we published children's illustrated books as well as books on beers and spirits.

Mitchell Beazley

Jun, 1999 — Jul, 2001 (about 2 years)
I was responsible for commissioning all the books on design, architecture and gardening for leading book publisher - now part of Hachette UK. I worked on many books to do with fashion, graphic design, garden design and architecture.

Phaidon Press

Sep, 1987 — Sep, 1989 (about 2 years)
I worked as an editor on a number of art book titles in Oxford for the art book publisher, Phaidon Press.

Portfolio

Brian Eno:Light Music /anglais

ENO BRIAN

THAMES HUDSON

Production Management
Production Management
Damien Hirst: New Religion

Hirst, Damien

Other Criteria Books

Production Management
Production Management
Production Management
The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the World

Hobbs, Kevin

Laurence King Publishing

Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Book Interior Design
Cover Design Book Interior Design Production Management
The Modern Japanese Tea Room

Freeman, Michael

Damiani

Production Management
Inspire: Courageous People of Our Time

Chittenden, Oliver

Oliver Chittenden

Production Management
Production Management

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Elvira D.

Elvira D.

Nov, 2016

Mark was easy to communicate with. He gave concrete advise and was very helpful.

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