Creative Boom
OCTOBER 31, 2023
After gaining residency without needing an employer sponsorship, he quit his job and pursued freelance full-time. Having built much of his career designing creative marketing for movies and TV series, from digital and social media campaigns to one-sheets and OOH, this has posed a big problem. "As
Creative Boom
APRIL 24, 2024
Getting started Born and raised in south London with Jamaican roots, Leah's love for the arts paved the way for her career in brand and packaging design. Alongside these endeavours, she's carved out a niche as a freelance book designer, creating covers for a range of international publishers across various genres.
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Spine Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
One of his passions as an interdisciplinary artist lies in designing book covers: “I am a communicator at heart: whether working in book design, identity, or key art. Each cover is an invitation to pick up that book and read. See more of Jacob's work here or find him on social media @mrjacobkemp.
Inkbot Design
MAY 16, 2024
Use a clean, flexible book design with sleek details like blind embossing or fabric binding. Levelling Up Your Career Superpowers Get Experience Any Way You Can I'll be blunt – no one will just hand you a primo design job and paycheck simply because you have a degree or online course cert. How do I get my first design work?
Shillington
MAY 28, 2020
Vince Frost Design Your Life. In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Being Freelance. Through hearing their stories, he aims to help his listeners become better freelancers, as well as himself. Listen here.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 14, 2020
During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ever-varied range of covers for new titles. Design: Alex Kirby. There’ll be some catching up to do in 2021, that’s for sure.
Eye on Design
AUGUST 23, 2021
“But on the flip side, good covers do get more exposure on social [media] and people buy books for aesthetics.” . Another HarperCollins employee, Milan Bozic, told me that from the design perspective, he could benefit from A/B testing and wishes that it was more common. Three titles from Verso. Image by Laura Thompson.
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