Michelle Clement – Designer

I assist art director and illustrator Sara Gillingham with production work, and with preliminary design/design and typography of interiors and covers of various children's picture books and chapter books, for clients such as Chronicle Books, Simply Read Books, and Boyds Mills Press.

Freelance production & design work for books, print publications, magazines, and catalogs for clients such as Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press, Chronicle Books, Greystone Books, and Page Two Strategies. Including preliminary cover designs and interior design for lifestyle titles, and publication design & art direction from manuscript to final print for various titles.

Designed a variety of children's books and formats collaboratively with multiple art directors and editors, establishing series design, redesigning foreign buy-ins to work within Chronicle's brand, working within existing brand and series guidelines, comping sales materials, and working within printers dielines and with production on a variety of special finishes and proof color corrections. Also worked on self-initiated and assigned projects as a team, developing, designing and building prototypes for editorial acquisition.