About

I have worked in the design industry since 1998 specialising in product and editorial design. For ten years I was the art editor of Eye Magazine; a graphic design journal, which gave me a thorough grounding in the editorial process.  Since then I’ve worked with The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and various other magazine publishers. I worked as a freelancer for many years, specialising in report & accounts. I love typography and laying out dense type in beautiful ways. If any of that is of interest to you then feel free to email me or check out my CV.

Other than that, what can I tell you? I like art. I like design. So I go to the odd gallery, I own the odd art book. I like old typography books. I wish I owned every copy of Willy Fleckhaus’ Twen magazine. I like letterpress. I have a little Adana press and a lot of jumbled bits of hot metal growing dusty in boxes.

I like drawing. I wish I were better at it. I like textiles and printmaking. I wish I had studied it further. I like book binding. I wish I could do more of it. I admire beautiful handwriting and dabble in calligraphy. So mostly design-related stuff.

I like architecture. I like looking at The Modern House (like most people) and imagine my post modern interior which inevitably means throwing half my stuff away. I like photography. I love working with reportage photography. I wish I owned a Leica and a darkroom.

I like illustration. I’d love to learn how to animate it properly. I like a bit of cooking and a bit of gardening. I’m not particularly amazing at either and it makes me sound a bit boring.

So what are we going to chat about? Any of the above? I’d like to think that I’m pretty personable. So we can talk about grids, UI and our Dribbble favourites or we can talk about any of the stuff you like.