I started my career in an advertising agency just off Oxford Circus in London. I had helped to organise our graduate exhibition in a small gallery near Leicester Square, and by pure luck my future employers popped in and asked me over for an interview. I showed them my portfolio (nothing was online in those days), went for a pint and the job was mine. Strange how things work out! Looking back on it now I was very fortunate. I’d landed my dream job as a graphic designer in central London and was working with big names such as The Daily Telegraph, Dorothy Perkins, the AA, Boosey & Hawkes and Channel 4. I loved it and learnt a great deal about working in the real world, client management, budgets and running a team. After nearly five years I moved on and freelanced for a while before joining publishing house Hodder & Stoughton in Sevenoaks. I stayed at Hodders for many years designing upwards of 400 books ranging from physics to photography. It was fun.
