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Gary 5 star rating

United Kingdom

Graphic designer with first rate image compositing skills. Many years experience in print and digital book design.

Genres: Computers & Internet, Non-Fiction, Music, Humanities & Social Sciences, Engineering, Math & Science, Physics & Chemistry, Mathematics & Statistics, Business & Management, and Technology.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Alison 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

A Designer and Art Director with over 30 years experience in Music and Publishing.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Home & Garden, Music, Entertainment, Middle Grade, Design, Photography, and Architecture.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Carlton Publishing Group

Andy 5 star rating

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Over 25 years in publishing design, specialising in non-fiction titles. I spent 15 years as a senior designer at Oxford University Press.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, Sports & Outdoors, History, Law, Economics, Parenting & Families, and Education & Reference.

Work experience:

  • Oxford University Press
  • Meaden Creative

Award winning illustrator and designer. I love illustrating magical and strange worlds. Let's start working on making your project sparkle!

Genres: Middle Grade Fantasy, Children's, Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Mystery & Crime, Classics, Young Adult, Romantic Fantasy, and Romance.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Longman Group
  • Oxford University Press
  • Aberystwyth University

Book cover artist specialising in illustration and fine art photo collage. All covers come with cover reveal graphics. No AI 🙅🏻‍♀️

Genres: LGBTQ Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Women's Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Dark Romance, Romance, and Romantic Fantasy.

Work experience:

  • Hollyoaks, Lime Pictures
  • Self-employed
  • Left Bank Pictures

With over 20 years of editorial graphic design experience, I am creative, reliable and able to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Cultural & Ethnic, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Writing & Publishing, Travel, and Music.

Work experience:

  • APL Media Limited
  • The Big Issue
  • Self-employed

Book cover designer and illustrator working primarily in adult non fiction and fiction.

Genres: Education & Reference, Non-Fiction, Music, Humanities & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Short Story, Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Writing & Publishing, Anthologies, and Poetry.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

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I'm a London-based illustrator, specialising in the following styles: Comic/graphic novel, Painterly and vector designs

Genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Humor & Comedy, Science Fiction, Travel, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, and Young Adult.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Offshore International Advertsing
  • Big House Media
  • South African Fashion Week

Book cover designer with 25 years experience, based in London.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Literary Fiction, Math & Science, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Adam 5 star rating

Cheltenham, UK

I am a book designer with over 40 years experience collaborating with authors to produce intelligent, creative solutions.

Genres: Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Music, Entertainment, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Mystery & Crime, Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

  • Haymarket Publishing
  • CW Communications
  • The Architectural Press
  • Wordsearch
  • Redwood Publishing
  • Burnett Associates
  • Pearce Marchbank, Studio Twenty
  • Self-employed
  • Graphic Design: A Concise History

Ben 5 star rating

Salisbury, UK

Illustrator, cover designer and hand-lettering specialist working with Bloomsbury, Penguin, Hachette, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Genres: Short Story, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Coming of Age, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Humor & Comedy, Young Adult, Art, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Experienced children's book designer specialising in innovative novelty books

Genres: Children's, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Campbell Books

Award-winning children’s book designer and art director with over 30 years experience specialising in pictures books.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, and Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Templar Books
  • Reed Children's Books

Jem 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I have over 20 years experience in designing bestselling book covers

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Action & Adventure, Chick Lit, Women's Fiction, Espionage, Thriller & Suspense, and Sports & Outdoors.

Work experience:

  • Simon and Schuster
  • Transworld

Illustrator working from my home studio by the sea. I've worked on many books, with the Roald Dahl estate & won a World Illustration Award.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Education & Reference, Young Adult, Architecture, Travel, Nature, Picture Books, and Children's.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

I am an experienced illustrator of children's and fantasy books. I am friendly, efficient and offer design and professional quality art.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, and Young Adult.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Award winning art director, designer & publisher. Designing for Game of Thrones, Queen, Harry Potter, The Met New York and many, many more.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Design, LGBTQ Fiction, Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Entertainment, Picture Books, Children's, and Classics.

Work experience:

  • Harper Collins Publisher
  • DK
  • Welbeck Publishing Group (now part of the Hachette group)
  • Self-employed
  • Bloomsbury

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If your book is graphically complex, as is the case with cookbooks, textbooks, reference books, poetry books, and graphic novels, collaborating with a professional typographer will help you ensure that your book makes use of the best possible type (also known as book font) for its aims.

Drawing from their years of experience in the publishing industry and their acute sense of graphic design, our typographers in the UK will look for or create a font that embodies your work’s sensibility, and which works with the amount of spacing designated in your layout design. Their work often goes unnoticed, but that’s the sign of a typographical success — when it flawlessly fits into place, never making the reader pay attention to the formatting of the work.

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