Personal Profile

A highly experienced Art Editor / Designer with practical skills in illustration and technical illustration.

Skills and experience includes

• extensive experience in all areas of book design.
• managing a design team, illustration commissioning and budgeting.
• co-ordinating schedules and adhering to deadlines.
• project managing all stages of pre and post print production.
• experience in conceptualising and styling photographic shoots.
• computer literate in Quark Xpress, Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design.
• liasing with authors and artists.
• generating original ideas and solutions to problems.
• drawing and colour visualisation skills.

Career History

2001 - Present     Art Editor, Quarto Books
Managing and producing many highly illustrated books on various subjects. Liaising with authors and artists, commissioning illustrations, photography and designers. Liaising with print production and finishing. Creation of budgets and budget control.

2001     Senior Designer, Egmont Children’s Books
Working as team member on various 1-5 age children’s books.

2001     Freelance Designer, Anness Books
Producing cover designs and designing Nature Watch titles.

2000     Freelance Designer, Miles Kelly Publishing
Produced the Octopus History Encyclopedia for children.

2000     Lecturer in graphic design at Hertford Regional College

1998 - 2000         Freelance Designer, Miles Kelly Publishing
Working on a series of eight highly illustrated Bible stories for children.

1997     Freelance Designer, Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Work on Eyewitness Travel Guides to Miami and Hawaii.

1993 - 1997         Designer for Duncan Baird Publishing
Produced Dorling Kindersley’s Eyewitness Travel Guides to The Loire Valley, California and Australia. Sole charge of the commissioning and budgeting for all illustrations.
Designer and visualiser on Encyclopaedia of Science in Action.

1984     Lecturer in graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic and Portsmouth College of Art.

1979 - 1993         Freelance graphic designer and illustrator
Clients included: Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue, Tatler, New Musical Express, Melody Maker. Create logos and record covers for RCA, CBS and MCA Records, Virgin Records & Island Records.

1976-1979         Art Director for Polydor Records
Originate logos, record covers, posters, advertising and point of sale material for    such artists as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jam and The Who. Art direct photo sessions. Liase with managers and artists.

1974 - 1976         Illustrator for Macmillan and Macdonald Books
Producing cover designs and artworks for children’s books.