About me

June 2006–present

Self-employed, working on a range of design projects, mainly in the fields of book design and information design.

Scope I undertake work that ranges from developing strategy and masterplanning, right through to detailed implementation.

Technical skills I am highly proficient in Adobe Indesign and Quark XPress. I also use Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, and the Microsoft Office suite. Additionally I’ve worked with SAP and XML. When particular projects require it I learn about other softwares, technologies, and materials.

Awards In 2007 Boag Associates won a Design Effectiveness Award for their work on the T-Mobile bill design, a project that I had been heavily involved in while at Boag Associates.
England’s Thousand Best Churches won a ‘nibbie’ award as best illustrated book for 2002.
In the time that I was working full-time in publishing, four books that I designed won Book Design and Production Awards and fourteen books were selected for exhibition at the annual Book Design and Production Awards.

Employment pre-2006

March 2003–June 2006

Senior Designer and Project Manager for Boag Associates, design consultancy specialising in information design.

1991–February 2003

Designer, then Senior Designer, then Design Manager for Penguin Books.

While at Penguin I designed books that covered the full range of their output, from very straightforward fiction to highly complex illustrated books, taking in cookery books of all shapes and sizes, poetry, Penguin Classics, dictionaries, and non-fiction.

1990–1991

Project Designer for Gaia Books.

Working on highly illustrated books about environmental issues.

1988–1990

Book Designer for Faber and Faber.

1987–1988

Designer for Chatto and Windus.

1983–1987

BA (hons) in Typography & Graphic Communication at The University of Reading.
Graduating 2:1.

Please email me to find out more, or phone 07974 176656.