Catalogues are one of those jobs that designers love to hate… unless the editing and layout instructions are clear and well organised, they have an obsessive-compulsive attention to detail and endless time to get the template exactly right. The chances of all three coming together are rare and unusual experience. The NSW Health Uniform Catalogue wasn’t one…
One of the most significant annual projects I worked on when I was the graphic designer at the NSW Ministry of Health was managing the print production and updates for the My Personal Health Record – also known as the Blue Book. The Blue Book is given to every newborn’s parents to keep as a record…
As part of my work for HealthShare NSW, I also often provide graphic services for other external government health agencies, which I charge for on behalf of HealthShare NSW. The money helps to offset my salary as well as providing other health agencies with professional design services at a cost-effective rate. The Agency for Clinical Innovation…
I’ve done a few large documents and other pieces for the Clinical Excellence Commission over the past few years, the major one was the Safer System Better Care: Quality Systems Assessment reports. In 2011 they approached me to provide them with a fresh new look for this annual report. I used their logo as the basis of the…
In 2010 I designed the NSW Health Youth Health Policy 2010-2015, “Healthy bodies, healthy minds, vibrant futures’. The client wanted the document to be in two colours that were high contrasting so that when the PDF was downloaded by health workers throughout NSW it would still be readable when printed on a black and white…
In 2004 I was approached by my old Investorinfo boss to create the layout for the startup magazine he was launching and design the first issue. The brief was that the magazine would look slick, clean and professional, with a newsy feel that was emphasized by its tabloid size. I was working fulltime at Money…
Occasionally at Money magazine we would produce small A6 size booklets that were attached to the cover of the next issue as a free gift to readers. These were often sponsored by companies that regularly advertised in the magazine. Below are two I produced in 2007, one a first home buyers guide sponsored by Westpac…
I worked as the Production Editor on Money Magazine from 2004 to 2007. The position involved designing pages for the magazine under the direction of the Art Director, selecting images either from online image libraries or commissioning specific images from photographers and illustrators, managing the print production side and processing the freelancer invoices required for the magazine.…
I designed these full page ads for Constellation Capital Management in 2003 when I was working on Investor Weekly magazine as the sole designer. I developed the ad concepts, wording and chose the images. I still really like them, after all this time. Particularly the teeth.
In the Noughties I worked as a graphic designer for an financial publishing company, InvestorInfo. They had a number of titles, but when they decided to launch a new magazine in 2003 about investing ethically I managed to grab onto it and got to design the layout and template from scratch. Ethical investing was (and…
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