Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Typesetting books from supplied Word files using styles. These can be fiction or non-fiction, for adults or children, up to 1,000 pages long; and include illustrations, tables, forms, footnotes and endnotes. Providing final artwork to printers in the form of high-res pdfs. Clients include major publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Scholastic and Little, Brown. M Rules were still working mainly in Quark when I joined, but I helped them switch to InDesign.
I took jobs from the briefing stage through to finished artwork, liaising with writers, editors, photographers, illustrators and printers. I produced anything from a one-colour small ad to a 32-page four-colour annual review, but magazines were a specialty. I sometimes repurposed my work for the web. Clients included: • Help the Aged Everything from information leaflets to reports to mailings up to the annual review. • Save the Children A series of Wish List leaflets for STC’s regional projects and some online posters and leaflets. • One World Action I designed OWA’s history to commemorate their 21st anniversary, and also Action Briefs, a series of reports in English and Spanish for OWA’s regional programmes. • Luanda Urban Poverty Programme I designed all of LUPP’s Good Practice series, and the Synthesis Report when the programme came to an end. • Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign I have done a number of publications for NSC, including their 30th anniversary briefing in 2009 and their catalogue for the last eleven years.
Designed all MDC publications in line with the new corporate ID, the most important being Target md. Created new Welsh corporate ID. Managed and updated website. Designed annual review. Responsible for print buying and reduced costs considerably.
Started as DTP operator, doing mostly stationery. After promotion to graphic designer: leaflets, posters, newsletters and website. Maintain and upgrade Mac systems, software and hardware. Introduced in-house scanning, proper backup procedures and instigated introduction of publications database.