Life can be filled with twists and turns; for me design was never where I thought I’d be but I am beyond grateful to now be in this profession.

To save you the long story, after leaving the University of Exeter, where I studied History and Maths, due to an eating disorder, my early career found me bookselling, working in events and then carrying the weight of some rather serious business development in a lifestyle brand. As someone who never took art GCSE it was the window displays and event and marketing collateral at a range of workplaces that brought my back to my childhood love of calligraphy and handlettering. With a strategic and streamline focus to my role at the time a deep desire for something more creative kicked in and I finally took the step to get my degree in Graphic Communications at the University of Reading, specialising in typography, where I was offered a place to complete the degree in just two years.

From there the rest has been a love affair with the design world, with a strong academic focus and interest in history as well as a search of reason and precision (I think that’s the maths talking). With experience in children’s publishing, agency life, family businesses, print-only and primarily digital-only environments I’m so immensely proud of the tools, experience, insight and knowledge that I have both in the design community and workplace but outside of that too.