About me

I am looking for freelance/permanent work within publishing as I
have been freelancing for the past year since being made redundant. I
have been freelancing at IPC Media and on a number of other freelance
projects including Lusso Homes, Cummins UK, Bentley-Leek Professional
and regular work for The Royal Automobile Club - based in Pall Mall,
London.

As the Art Editor for the magazine for the members magazine for the
Royal Automobile Club I work as the sole designer serving the client by
attending editorial board meetings, organising photoshoots, designing
all 64 pages, redesigns, layout, templating, managing magazine budgets,
managing freelance staff, comissioning illustrators, all-house repro,
re-touching of any images and finally sending all pages to print all
within a very strict deadline.

I have experience producing the corporate customer magazine for
Yorkshire Building Society. I have also worked for a range of corporate
clients including Subaru, Bank of Scotland, Skipton Building Society,
Wentworth Golf Club, St. John Ambulance, Headmasters and of course my
main client the Royal Automobile Club.

I have also produced designs for other projects including ezines,
advertisements, POS and DM.

I have also worked as a freelancer within consumer publishing. My most
recent consumer contract was at the BBC on a new weekly launch called
Match of the Day Magazine. The launch was very successful and after
first issue sales of over 115k the magazine is circulating at over 100k
each week. Again my role was to create new templates and page designs,
working alongside a new editorial and production team.

Within that year as a freelancer I had worked on a range of titles
including Horse & Pony magazine for Eagle Moss Publications. On a
weekly celebrity magazine called Star at the Express group
(*). At IPC media on Soaplife
(*) a fortnightly Soap/TV magazine. I
had also been working at the BBC on a children's magazine called
GirlTalk (*) and on the award winning BBC Good Homes
magazine. I also worked on a monthly magazine at Future Publishing
called DVD Review (*).

Previously to working as a freelancer, I decided to take a year out to
see the world but before that I spent four years working to a standard
of Middleweight Designer at Dive Magazine for Circle Publishing
(*) based in Richmond. There I switched to
InDesign CS and worked along side my Art Director producing a monthly
consumer title called Dive (*).

I also worked as the sole designer on a smaller title for a marketing
company on a title called GradJobs (*). Again
I worked as the sole designer for a younger readership producing page
designs and also dealing advertisers meaning I was chasing and
reviewing advertisements before going to print.

I first started my career working as the sole designer on two (B2B)
titles at the Daily Mail Group after completing my BA (Hons) in Graphic
Design. There I trained in the Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark, all to
an advanced level.

In all positions I produced high-quality image-led page designs,
directed photo-shoots for equipment tests and sourced all images. I was
also involved with the production side of things. Here I would send all
pages down to print ourselves and would work alongside the printers
with any amendments and printing problems that would often occur.

I have been working as a magazine designer for over 8 years now and am
looking for a permanent or a freelance role that will allow me to
continue with my creative side and maybe take me to a more senior role
within an established company. As you can see I have a very broad
portfolio within consumer, contract and b2b publishing and hope that
you are able to bring me in for a meeting so you can help me find that
perfect position.

If you wanted to have a chat then please feel free to contact me.

Otherwise please view my online portfolio

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Most of the work has been done within the past 3 years and is a
mixture of consumer and contract publishing.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

I look forward to hearing from you in the very near future.

Many thanks,

Jon Hart