Jason Anscomb – Designer

I am a freelance book cover designer who has worked in the book publishing industry for over twenty years.

Some of my clients have included Penguin, Transworld, Random House, Orion, Profile, Atlantic, Bloomsbury, Eliot and Thompson and Polity and many indie and academic Presses.

I specialize in: Non Fiction, Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction, business books and academic press style cover design. In effect my design work covers a huge range of styles and approach.

My work is: Often quite ideas based in approach. It’s important that the message of my cover is clear and quickly understandable. It often tries to demonstrate an unusual but clever way of looking at things.

I feel I work well in collaboration with an author. A large part of what I do is discussing the job with the client.

Interior book layout

I also design a fair few book interiors. I spent a few years working at a publisher in New Zealand where I would typeset many titles, always with a clear and simple, but well balanced style.