I was one of those kids. You know the one. The one who always had impeccably designed cover sheets on their assignments all through school. The one who owned a billion pencils, textas, erasers of all shapes and sizes, a massive sticker collection and a squillion colouring books, notebooks, notepads and scrap books. I loved them all. I loved being crafty and creative and I still do. Now I see it was all leading up to me becoming a graphic and book designer – who knew!
I’ve worked in-house with the lovely teams at Five Mile in Melbourne and Dorling Kindersley and Egmont in London. In January 2010 I stepped out as a freelance designer, working with publishers all over Australia.
For me, book design, is not a job – it’s a love and a passion which is still as strong today as when I first joined the publishing world in 2004. I consider myself lucky to be able to do what I do every day. And, when I see my little boys glowing, happy and proud face as we’re reading a new book I’ve designed (sometimes on my screen before it’s even sent to print!), I know I’m exactly where I’m meant to be.