PAUL HARPIN

For 19 years I was responsible for the design direction of everything that emerged from Haymarket Consumer Media, Haymarket Business Media and Haymarket Network.

These days I design identities, branding, typefaces, books, magazines and promotional material for a wide variety of clients.

In 2021 I was the chair of the Wynkyn de Worde Society and I recreated their website, having been the deputy chair in 2020 and their honorary designer in 2019 and 2018. The society is named after Wynkyn de Worde who was the first printer in Fleet Street.

I am also on the advisory board of VitaVitae.co — Kathy Lim Sheehy’s terrific brand consultancy in Singapore.

Back in 2007 I was the founding chair for the editorial design organisation, which promoted great editorial design by holding expert talks for designers and students.

My first break was when I joined design consultants Walker Pinfold Associates in 1979, straight from Leeds, and moved on to Banks and Miles as a senior designer in 1982.

I have been responsible for the design of over 300 magazines. Thankfully my first two titles collected Magazine of the Year Awards: one for Architects’ Journal, and another for BUSINESS magazine with Condé Nast in a joint venture with the Financial Times. At this time I was also art editor for the CSD’s magazine DESIGNER. Winning the awards helped me become creative director for a succession of publishing companies.

At the age of thirty I became group art director at Centaur in charge of nineteen magazines including Creative Review and Design Week, then creative director at BBC Redwood publishing in 1990 — we launched many BBC magazines and also created an array of customer magazines, winning numerous awards for prestigious clients.

I was a founding partner in The Magazine Consultancy in 1995, and became the creative director of Times Magazines, in Singapore, in 1996 where we published Asia’s most successful lifestyle magazines for women, and I was a consultant to Gaya Favorit Press the most successful women’s magazine publisher in Indonesia.

I also design typefaces and my work can be bought at londontype.co.uk

My buyfontssavelives.com campaign, which sells typefaces to raise money for cancer charities, has donated over £130,000 to MacMillan and Cancer Research UK over the last ten years.

I have a first class BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design from Leeds Polytechnic.

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