Kirsty Hunter – Designer

I'm a graphic designer with years of experience in layout design and illustration. My background is mainly in educational publishing and graphic storytelling. I'm especially proficient in InDesign and can help typeset your project to a highly professional level. I'm happy to take on all elements of a book, including: illustrations, cover design, layout and prepping files for print. I've illustrated and self-published several titles of my own so I'm confident I can bring your project to life.

I’m currently working as a Lead Graphic Designer for Twig Education, an educational media company based in Glasgow. I work on a variety of eye-catching assets, creating layouts, covers, illustrations and informational posters. My work requires that I take the strongest creative approach for each individual asset in order to spark the interest of students while maintaining visual consistency across Twig products. I’m currently leading design development for a new Maths print product but will pivot as necessary to other projects in addition to updating our legacy materials.

In my free time I enjoy illustrating comics and have also produced a self-published childrens’ book, I Don’t Feel Christmassy Yet. I’m really interested in visual storytelling and draw a lot of inspiration from film and television when working out the pacing and panel compositions for particular scenes. I spent much of lockdown illustrating and publishing the graphic novel Smithers & Wing, developing a visual identity for the comic and designing a variety of marketing materials for our Kickstarter campaign, including social media graphics and a promotional print styled to resemble the artwork for a pulp gothic romance novel.