Jessica Drury has been working as a graphic designer since 1997.
For six years
she worked as the sole in-house designer for the National
Centre for Volunteering,
a major national charity. In this role she
re-branded and re-designed all of their publications and printed material,
from their monthly magazine, to their campaigns and events materials,
to corporate documents. In 2003 she became a free lance designer and produced
work for Save the Children, the Corporation of London and the National Council
for Voluntary Organisations. Jessica is currently studying for
a Master’s
degree in Book Design at the University of Reading. Through the seven projects
on the course Jessica has gained experience in the wider range of issues
facing book designers: creating a ‘family’ of books for a publishing house,
the use
of images with text, how to make different levels of text work
together and how to make complicated systems of bibliography,
referencing and footnotes work.
