Design project management for authors and publishers of children’s books and software for educational and trade markets.
We are based in Oxfordshire and include major and minor publishers in our client list including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Pearson, Macmillan, Harcourt, Parragon, Firecrest and Ransom. We also design books for self-publishing authors.
If you would like us to work with you on a project please contact John Walker on +44 (0)845 8388707.
We additionally design websites for freelancers, small businesses and organisations. We create websites ideally suited to people who will want to add to the website themselves to keep their site fresh with news and updates.
Workbooks for Grade 1 (and then Grade 2) covering addition & subtraction, phonics, time & money, and vocabulary. They may look simple but they were really fiddly, exasperated somewhat by editorial rewrites in the face of the tightest schedule ever. We worked over much of Christmas to get these done. But they were fun, and the artists were both blazingly fast!
Thanks also to Jane Walker at QED for rushing me some gratis copies from the US in time for the London International Book Fair.
We designed this flyer, working with the artist Beccy Blake. The title lettering was created using the Berliner Grotesk typeface, making the infant ‘a’ out of the ‘o’ and ‘l’ letters, as infant letters were appropriate for the target audience age group. The rest of the type was set in Badger.
The Boy and the Statue is a new play for 4-7 year olds, accessible to both deaf and hearing audiences.
Saturday 3rd July
11.30am and 2pm
£6 / £5
Box Office 020 7328 1000
Tricycle, 269 Kilburn High Rd, London, NW6 7JR
Covers from the 7 reader books we designed for Pearson Education. Penguin Active Readers are published internationally and feature a wide range of genres in UK and International English for ELT. Covers are usually by the artists, but sometimes use stock photos or classic paintings or prints.
Artists: Mike McKeever (Monkey King), Katie Mac (Good Day, Bad Day), Adam Hunter Peck (Stories of Other Worlds), Nick Hardcastle (Bleak House), Sonia Kretchmar (Under the Bridge).
Although I like seeing finished artwork when it comes in, I get more excited earlier in the process, on receipt of roughs. I think it is because though the final artwork is usually very accomplished it is in the roughs that the draftsmanship can be seen.
This book is part of the Penguin Active Readers ELT series for 2010, published by Pearson Education. Three short stories by H.G. Wells: The Country of the Blind, The Door in the Wall, The Young Ghost. [...]
This is a buy-in from an Australian publisher. The text was good and we were asked to repackage the book with Firecrest’s artwork to produce new layouts. [...]
Lavish fold-out books describing animals and plants in their habitats. A beautiful fold-out spread pictures the flora and fauna of the habitat, and subsequent pages work through each example. [...]
Snapdragons is part of the ever expanding Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) from Oxford University Press. We were commissioned to produce 60 titles, in 10 levels or stages, using a wide variety of artists, typefaces, layouts and formats to motivate and stimulate readers. [...]
Penguin Active Readers: Stories of Other Worlds
Firecrest: Day and Night - Everglades
QEB: Get Ready For Grade 1
Parragon: First Readers
Firecrest: Animal Faces
Oxford Reading Tree: Snapdragons stage 2
Oxford Reading Tree: Snapdragons stage 1
Ransom: Goal!
Penguin Active Readers: Covers
Firecrest: Project Learning - Mammals
Ransom: Boffin Boy
