My first visuals played with the idea of using a border and very graphic images as a way of giving the series its own identity. It’s a job I have a lot of love for and is creatively fulfilling. The beauty of being a freelance designer is that I get to work on a very wide variety of projects and genres anything from modern young adult books, or crime and mystery titles, to modern classic stories and anything in-between. I occasionally work on the insides of books, however most of my time is spent designing and creating the images for front covers. I work from a studio in Brighton and most of my work is publishing based. I have a good history with the team and they have commissioned me many times over the years since then as a freelance designer. Nearly ten years ago, I worked in-house on the design team at Puffin and Penguin Children’s books. It was a very cloak-and-dagger approach to the job and these kind of projects are incredibly rare, so I jumped at the chance, signed the forms, and sent them back to Penguin Random House, intrigued and excited to know more. At the time I was told that it was going to be a very ‘big’ book, and would I be interested? The client said I couldn’t be given any further details until I had signed a NDA (non-disclosure agreement). I was approached by Penguin Random House Children’s to work on a new and exciting brief in the autumn of 2016.
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