I have over 18 years of design, creative artworking and typesetting experience in publishing working for Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Walker Books, Nosy Crow and self-publishers. I specialise in children’s books but work across all age ranges from picture book to middle-grade, YA and adult.
I provide fast turnaround from initial cast-off and type-styling, including any text emphasis, to art and illustration placement, taking in editorial corrections and design direction to produce final print ready files for print and digital publication. I work with raw text or pre-styled/pre-formatted assets, applying design and branding consistently for publisher, author, character and series styles to produce covers, insides and accompanying marketing materials for cross-platform products and promotion. I also provide art direction and print management to ensure the quality of your final publication.
Network member of Publishing Scotland.
Full design, art direction and print management for this KickStarter publication. 2 editions were created, one perfect bound and one Swiss Style open binding for a ‘special’ version. Complimentary settings with reverse use of colours for the two bindings. 176x250, 112pp. Available. to purchase from https://redrolledandseen.bigcartel.com/
© Bella Okuya and/or individual authors 2023.
Full interior file build, from initial cast off, to artworking final illustrations and creative artworking extra design elements. B-format, 288pp. Published by Simon & Schuster 2023
Full insides file build from initial cast off and typestyling including hand lettering all internal illustrations, artworking and editorial amendments taken in as directed. B-format/320pp. Published by Simon & Schuster Jan 2023.
Full interior file build including typesetting, typestyling, artwork placement and editorial amendments for insides. The Boss of Everyone by Danny Wallace and illustrated by Gemma Correll. B-Format/352pp. Published by Simon & Schuster 16 March 2023.
Reformat from AUS file to B-format. Complete artworking throughout and updating prelim and endmatter. 192pp. Published by Simon & Schuster 2023.
Creative artworking and typestyling for full colour insides. Work included final artwork placement, text emphasis to style, editorial corrections and creative artworking to amend/adjust illustrations. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 27 October 2022. Format: 259 x 265 mm.
Initial typesetting cast off and file build, artworking support throughout development from typestyling to image adjustment and correction. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 29 September 2022.
Reformat of US files to UK sizing; both insides and cover, with updated artwork, cover blurb and SPOTUV finishes.
Full interior file build; typesetting, typestyling, integrated artwork throughout and final artwork placement. Also resizing to B-Format for paperback edition.
Published by Simon & Schuster September 2022.
Percy The Park Keeper One Snowy Night Activity Book by Nick Butterworth. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2022.
Full 64 colour page design with accompanying sticker sheet.
Genie and Teeny by Steven Lenton. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Book 2022.
Typesetting, typestyling, artwork brief placement for illustrator guidance, then final artwork placement.
Typesetting, artwork placement, editorial amendments for B-format insides. 240pp. Published by Simon & Schuster 2022
Percy the Park Keeper 50 Things to Make and Do by Nick Butterworth published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2022.
Full 64pp colour page design with accompanying sticker sheet.
Updated Paddington’s guide to London by Michael Bond published by HarperCollins in 2022.
Cover: full jacket build to new format with updated artwork
Insides: complete reformat with updated styling, images and text throughout.
The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous by David Baddiel, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2021.
Typesetting, typestyling and artwork placement.
Carnival of the Animals by Michael Morpurgo published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2021.
Jacket build and artworking. PLC build and artworking. Inside updates and artworking.
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! by David Walliams published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Insides: typeset and artworked to fit royal hardback but be easily reformattable to B-format.
Cover: full file territory edition builds in applicable formats – royal, c and b-format.
The Skulduggery Pleasant – Grimoire by Derek Landy, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2021.
Typesetting, typestyling, artwork placement and final book file building for archiving/repro.
Type styling, setting and artwork placement Skandar and The Unicorn Thief by A F. Steadman.
Published by Simon & Schuster 2022.
Typsesetting and artwork placement for insides. Published by Simon & Schuster 2021.
Typeset and typestyling insides. Published by Simon & Schuster 2021
The Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson – A Little Bit of a Big Disaster by Charlie P. Brooks and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2021.
Typeset, type-styling and initial artwork placement.
Grimwood by Nadia Shireen published by Simon & Schuster 2021.
Initial typesetting and layout with artwork brief.
Typesetting, illustrator brief spacing and initial artwork placement. Published by Simon & Schuster 2021
Reformatting and artworking insides for all the David Walliams’ 10th anniversary editions of Gangsta Granny, Grandpa’s Great Escape, Mr Stink and The Boy in the Dress.
Published by HarcperCollins Children’s Books 2018.
Complete reformatting of all 6 David Walliams stories to fit the MacDonald’s Happy Reader format for the National Literacy Trust.
Published by HarperCollins Children’s books in 2018.
Complete file builds per character/series styling. Each to individual printer file templates and printer specifications.
Individual © dates on each design.
Creative artworking covers and adverts for placement in a variety of postlim matter.
All designs © Walker Books.
Where’s Wally postcard gift book – file creation to printer spec, original Martin Hanford artwork selection, page, spine, back cover, and inside backcover game design.
© Walker Books Ltd 2011.
Typesetting, typestyling, artwork placement and print scheduling for all 4 anthologies. Working in concert with cover designers, pupils, teachers and authors to create final repro files.
© First Story 2015
B-format reformatting of My Dad’s a Birdman by David Almond and illustrated by Polly Dunbar. Page layout design and illustration reformatting to printer specifications.
© Walker Books Ltd
Typesetting and styling for a variety of Patrick Ness titles.
© Walker Books Ltd.
Typesetting, typestyling and artworking Rae Earl’s diary series for Walker Books 2013.
Typesetting The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas, published by Walker Books Ltd 2017
Paperback formatting, with die-cut covers, artwork placement and pre and postlim page designs.
© Walker Books Ltd 2011
Here are some highlights from my years at Walker Books! :) All titles will have been typeset and typestyled by me, with additional creative artworking for the covers.
All designs © Walker Books Ltd.