Over 25 years designing educational and academic books, poetry and fiction at Weidenfeld, HarperCollins, Oxford University Press
My greatest satisfaction comes from working in a team of people to produce a piece of work that we are all happy with. The process of sharing the information and background to a project is so important and I never underestimate the communication at the beginning that enables the eventual pulling together of all elements to create something that looks right and fits the budget.
I have worked extensively on English Language Teaching books for the adult market, doing interior design and covers. I have also been involved with developing design branding for primary and secondary level books for Macmillan Education. As well as getting the right structure and layout for these books, I have enjoyed producing lively facsimiles and creating infographics and icons that enhance the product and more importantly help the user to navigate and understand the text.
Whilst I was a text designer at Weidenfeld and Nicolson and HarperCollins I worked on more high profile projects – biographies with plate sections, as well as an extremely varied fiction list. I enjoy the subtlety and detailed typographical attention needed to design poetry books and it was a highlight of my career to work on J.M. Dent’s Centenary edition of Dylan Thomas’ poetry.
Tolkien, J.R.R., Lee, Alan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan, Maud, Ralph
Larsen-Freeman, Diane, Anderson, Marti
Fu, Danling, Matoush, Marylou M.
Cameron, Lynne, McKay, Penny
de Chazal, Edward, Rogers, Louis
Hogge, Henry, Viccars, Peter
Tim Gentles, August 2021
Erica Shugart, June 2021
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Award-winning book production professional of 8 years, specialising in speedy typesetting of anthologies, memoirs and fiction.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Publishing professional with over ten years' experience, specialising in cover design and layout for non-fiction and sport.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom