Overview
Whether you are looking for a classic typography on a cookery title, an accessible layout for the crafts enthusiast, an assemblage of memorabilia for the heritage market or a quirky quiz book for a pet-lover, I know how to design pages that your readers will love.
"I gave Rosamund a challenging layout with multiple styles and fonts, many tables. It was a teacher-training textbook for teachers of English as a Foreign and Second Language. She produced an excellent design which she delivered on time. Throughout the process of creating the layout she was also very responsive to my suggestions and extremely patient with my corrections and changes. I can wholeheartedly recommend her services in designing and producing the interior layout of your book."
– Richard Cauldwell, author
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Work experience
National Trust at Anova Books
Covers and interiors, presentations and running projects for National Trust. Titles include The Manor Reborn TV tie-in; Good Old-fashioned, cookery series styling; Kitchen Garden Estate, gardening/cookery.
Self-employed
Design, art direction, commissioning and project management.
Original concepts and designs for presentations. Designs live titles through to co-editionable files to repro.
Specialises in illustrated adult non-fiction; food, heritage, crafts, wellness, popular culture and sport.
UK Clients: HarperCollins, Quantum, Anova, Pavilion, Collins & Brown, Octopus (including 'Gardening for Mindfulness'), Bloomsbury Sport ('The HIIT Bible'); US Clients: Quarto (including the best selling 'Color Me' series), HarperCollins ('Native American Encyclopedia' and 'Bad Birthdays') and Race Point ('The Beatles Solo' and 'The Curious History of the Crossword').
HarperCollins
• Manage work-flow for Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Collins Reference, around 400 titles pa.
• Allocate briefs to in-house and freelance designers. Negotiate fees, budget and manage out of house suppliers including photographers and illustrators.
• Manage weekly cover art meetings with editorial, sales, marketing.
Quarto Children's Books
Children’s ‘books plus’ – co-editionable novelty titles.
• Direct designers and paper engineers.
• Work closely with Production to deliver fully functioning products that meet international safety standards.
• Generate new ideas for book fairs and overseas clients.
Hachette Children's
Children’s educational picture books, full-colour co-editions.
• Design covers and commission freelance layout designers.
Dorling Kindersley
Miriam Stoppard’s Family Health Guide (592pp, 'The Food Doctor Everyday', and the major title 'New Medicine' (512pp), a comprehensive reference on integrated medicine.
• Team hire, model castings and photo direction on cookery, fitness and lifestyle.
• Pivotal role in the development of 'The Food Doctor' series photographic style.
Self-employed
New ideas, concepts and presentations on well being, health, craft, massage and yoga. Commission artists and photographers for books and presentations for Carlton Books, Random House, Little Brown, BBC Books, Michael Joseph, Dorling Kindersley, Belitha Press, IMP, Meister Verlag (Munich).
• Art direct photography, including hire team, on a 12–book cookery part-work and subsequently a 60–book cookery part-work (IMP).
• Art direct photography 'The New Cook by Mary Berry' (Dorling Kindersley).
• Series design highly illustrated 'Legacies' children’s history books; art direct photography children and animals for 'My Pet', a 6–book series (Belitha).
Brown Packaging
Part-work, continuity set and book packagers for highly-illustrated co-editions market. Developed new projects and presentations; oversaw all running projects; worked directly with clients; key decision-making. Clients included Marshall Cavendish, de Agostini, BBC Books, Headline, Bookmart, Benchmark (US).
Hired creative team and Art Direction of cookery photography for Marshall Cavendish partwork '2in1 Cookery'
HarperCollins
Page layout and text design. Commissioned freelance designers, photographers, and illustrators. Worked directly with major authors including Gerald Durrell (illustrated edition of 'My Family and Other Animals'), Doris Lessing (text design and commissioned maps for her autobiographies). Designed Centenary edition (1992) of 'Lord of the Rings' featuring Alan Lee's artwork for the first time. Close collaboration with Jane Roberts, author and Curator of the Print Room at the Royal Library, Windsor Castle to ensure accurate reproduction of original watercolours by Queen Victoria and others for her book 'Royal Artists'.
HarperCollins
Page layout and text design. Commissioned freelance designers, photographers, and illustrators. Worked directly with major authors including Gerald Durrell (illustrated edition of 'My Family and Other Animals'), Doris Lessing (text design and commissioned maps for her autobiographies). Designed Centenary edition (1992) of 'Lord of the Rings' featuring Alan Lee's artwork for the first time. Close collaboration with Jane Roberts, author and Curator of the Print Room at the Royal Library, Windsor Castle to ensure accurate reproduction of original watercolours by Queen Victoria and others for her book 'Royal Artists'.
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