Design and typesetting:
- I have 20+ years experience in designing and typesetting books, including fiction, non-fiction, reference, educational and foreign language books.
- Other subject areas include: art, craft, gardening, environmental, puzzles, poetry, novels, biography and different types of books for children.
- I typeset in Adobe InDesign and Arbortext 3B2.
- I can work from a variety of original data formats including Word, Excel and coded data like XML.
- I work with a variety of plug-ins for InDesign when typesetting scientific and maths projects, and right-to-left languages.
- Good understanding of automation techniques including grep functions, and the creation of templates.
- I have worked on a number of publishing-related branding projects – books, logos, stationery, website etc.
Picture research:
- Experienced in clearing print/digital rights and negotiating fees/rights from a wide variety of sources, and have a large list of industry contacts.
- Commissioning of illustrators and photographers.
- Very experienced in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
- Metadata input.
- Can work with publishers’ in-house DAM systems, including remotely.
- Experience of visiting organisations to explain how copyright and image permissions work.
Languages I have experience in typesetting:
English, Scots Gaelic, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Latin, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Turkish, Russian, Thai, Hebrew, Turkmen, Kurdish.
Clients include:
Hodder Education, Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Rising Stars, Chambers, Harrap, Canongate, Birlinn, Bloomsbury, Larousse, Houghton Mifflin, Leckie & Leckie, Whittles.