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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

Edward 5 star rating

Brighton, United Kingdom

Graphic Design professional with over 20 years experience specialising in cover design and illustration.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Nature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fantasy, and Literary Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Warner Music
  • Penguin Books UK
  • Self-employed

Nick 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I am a book cover designer with 20 years experience. I have designed everything from thrillers, crime books and illustrated womens fiction.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Crime, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • HarperCollins

Illustrator specialized in visual story telling through fantastical pictures and bold colour palettes.

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

Work experience:

  • The Design Solution, London, UK
  • Bucharest, Romania
  • Self-employed

Experienced and multi-talented book designer who can help make your book something special. Covers, layout, typography, beautiful imagery...

Genres: Design, Non-Fiction, Architecture, Music, Humanities & Social Sciences, Entertainment, Photography, History, Travel, and Art.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Thames & Hudson

Experienced text and cover designer with clients including Oxford Dictionaries, The BNF, Thames & Hudson and many fine art and trade books.

Genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Architecture, ELT, Education & Reference, Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry, Math & Science, and Design.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Oxford University Press
  • Motivate Publishing
  • Goodfellow & Egan, Cambridge

I am a cover designer/illustrator with over 20 years experience having worked with Penguin, LittleBrown, Harper Collins, Faber and more.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Legal Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Young Adult, and Horror.

Work experience:

  • Harper Collins Publishers
  • Self Employed

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Former Art Director at Quarto & Usborne | Recent clients include Penguin, Bonnier & Postwave Publishing | Specialist in book design & layout

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

Work experience:

  • Quarto
  • Usborne Publishing
  • Self-employed

Expert children’s book designer helping authors and publishers create beautiful, print-ready books across all formats.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, DIY & Crafts, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, ELT, and Entertainment.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

An experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary illustrator best known for striking hand-drawn illustrations. Represented by Folio.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Themes & Motifs, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Education & Reference.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • SCIP - Sussex Contemporary Illustrators and Printmakers Arts Charity

Graphic designer and art director with over 15 years experience working in the publishing industry.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, Children's, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, and Middle Grade.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Penguin Random House

A creative designer based in Central London, specialising in; marketing, cover design, branding and graphic communication.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Literary Fiction, Design, Non-Fiction, Entertainment, Art, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

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

Award winning art director, book designer, and self publishing expert with over 15 years experience in publishing and product design.

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

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • The Knight Shop International
  • Gecko Clothing
  • Cartrefi Conwy

Design, Art Direction and PM with over 20 years publishing experience. Working predominantly across lifestyle, wellness, travel and art.

Genres: Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, DIY & Crafts, Health & Wellbeing, Home & Garden, Travel, Children’s Non-Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • DK - Penguin Random House Group

I manage a small design studio in central London. Publishing services include book design, project management and art direction.

Genres: Architecture, Non-Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Religion & Spirituality, Parenting & Families, Design, Education & Reference, and Fashion & Textiles.

Work experience:

  • Duncan Baird Publishing
  • Smith and Gilmour
  • Self-employed

I've enjoyed creating MG, educational and fiction books for 30+ years. Let's make a book for children, adults, parents & teachers will love!

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's, Education & Reference, Picture Books, and Entertainment.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Capstone Publishers
  • Oxford University Press

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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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