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Russell Holden - Designer
Ulverston, Cumbria, United Kingdom
What I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me an ideal designer!
Overview
I am book designer with over 15 years of graphic design experience. From layout, page design, creating covers, interiors and even photo tweaking for all book genres.
Services
Languages
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Work experience
Graphic Designer
Self-employed
Pixel Tweaks Publications and de Lacy Press are the imprints of Pixel Tweaks, an established Graphic Design business, managed by Senior Designer, Russell Holden. We count it a privilege to work with enthusiastic authors and assist them in seeing their literary dreams become a reality.
I offer a book production service from page and layout designs to full cover design.
The self-publish process isn’t as painful or as expensive as one might think and the whole process can take as little as two months to get from word processor to bookshelf.
Up to the present day, we have produced over thirty books, either under our imprint or for other publishers such as Sedbergh-based Handstand Press. In 2014 one of our books (Warbirds of Walney) was short-listed for the Lakeland Book of the Year Award.
Senior Graphic Designer
CGP
CGP is a major UK educational publisher and the UK’s market leader for revision material. They publish and sell across the world with an annual turnover of £15m. Their range includes over 600 best-selling titles.
PUBLISHING
Book cover design
Product and subject photography
Page layout designs
CD and DVD cover designs
Design and output of marketing material
Mailshots – Advertisement brochures / order forms / catalogues / postcards
Retail products – Catalogues, packaging, POS material for Waterstones & WHSmiths
Web graphics – banners, photographs, graphic illustrations
USA marketing – Mailshot materials, catalogues, web graphics & show stand material
The official company handbook
Recruitment job adverts
Newspaper and magazine adverts for recruitment or sales
Powerpoint presentations
Staff photographs
Pre-visualisation photography – ‘artist’s impression’ of landscaping or building renovation projects
Vehicle livery design
Events posters / café menus / pricelists
Creative artwork
Portfolio (7 selected works)
The History of RAF Millom: And the Genesis of RAF Mountain Rescue
John Nixon
The History of RAF Millom Covering the airfields' wartime service from 1941 and brief reoccupation of the station in 1953, to its eventual conversion into HMP Haverigg. Extensively illustrated with over 260 photographs and including over 50 first-hand accounts of life at RAF Millom, Cumbria, England. This extremely accessible history will engage a broad readership and provide a historical trea... read more
The History of RAF Millom Covering the airfields' wartime service from 1941 and brief reoccupation of the station in 1953, to its eventual conversion into HMP Haverigg. Extensively illustrated with over 260 photographs and including over 50 first-hand accounts of life at RAF Millom, Cumbria, England. This extremely accessible history will engage a broad readership and provide a historical trea... read more
Ulverston: An English Market Town Through History
Helen Shacklady, Ulverston Pixel Tweaks
My Acoustic Nemesis: Life Before, During, and After an Acoustic Neuroma
Russell K Holden
By the time Russ was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, it was the size of a walnut. Within the space of a few weeks, he was booked in for a big operation and facing some major lifestyle changes - deafness, facial paralysis and loss of balance. At the time, information about an Acoustic Neuroma (also known as Vestibular, Schwannoma), what they are and what to expect in the weeks following the... read more
By the time Russ was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, it was the size of a walnut. Within the space of a few weeks, he was booked in for a big operation and facing some major lifestyle changes - deafness, facial paralysis and loss of balance. At the time, information about an Acoustic Neuroma (also known as Vestibular, Schwannoma), what they are and what to expect in the weeks following the... read more
Six Years of My Life: Wartime Diaries of Vic Coady
Vic G Coady
Vic Coady volunteered for active service as war was declared in September 1939 and joined the Royal Army Service Corps. He kept a chronicle of his experiences, both highs and lows, until his demobilisation in 1946. Most of the time he seems to have been cold, scared, wet and hungry, even in the first few weeks of signing on before being shipped to France. He lived through the British Expeditio... read more
Vic Coady volunteered for active service as war was declared in September 1939 and joined the Royal Army Service Corps. He kept a chronicle of his experiences, both highs and lows, until his demobilisation in 1946. Most of the time he seems to have been cold, scared, wet and hungry, even in the first few weeks of signing on before being shipped to France. He lived through the British Expeditio... read more
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